Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources

Renewable Resources – Natural Resources that “cannot” be used up.

Non-Renewable resources- Natural resources that “can” be used up.

Essential Question – How do resources affect the way that people live and work?

Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources

What are Natural Resources?Air, water and soil Biological resources - plants and animals Raw materials (minerals, oil, coal and natural

gas) Space and land Wind, geothermal (heat from the inside of the

earth), tidal and solar energyNatural resources are often classified into

renewable, unlimited, and non-renewable resources.

Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources

Renewable resources are usually living and therefore can renew themselves assuming they are not killed off or over harvested. Water and soil are non-living.

Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources

Unlimited resources- They are all renewable but they do not need regeneration or re-growth.

Giant Solar Power farm in Arizona

Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources

Wind Farm- Green Mountain Texas

Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources

World’s first tidal turbine off the coast of England

Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources

Geothermal Plant in Iceland is powered by heat from the Earth’s core

Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources

Non-Renewable resources can’t be replaced. When they are used up they are gone.

A typical oil platform

Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources

There are nearly 4000 oil platforms in this small part of the Gulf of Mexico alone. There are over 40,000 world wide.

Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources

Natural gas is an important fuel source and a potent greenhouse gas. Before natural gas can be used as a fuel, it must undergo extensive processing to remove almost all materials other than methane.

Gas processing plant in Europe

This bus is powered by Natural Gas.

Natural gas production by country (countries in brown and then red have the largest

production).

Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources

Coal is the means of producing more than half of the United States of America's electricity

Surface (Strip) Coal mine in Wyoming

Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources

Coal Mine – Bihar, India

Continent by continent

We are going to chart the Energy and mineral resources of the world.

Turn to page 74.Look at each continent and make tally marks

on the chart for each natural resource. When you are done, decide which continent

has the most of each resource and write it in the column “Who has most?”