Natural Resources Word Search
This natural resources word search lists 40 things people take from the Earth: coal, petroleum and natural gas, timber and freshwater, iron ore, copper and bauxite, and the nonrenewable and inexhaustible labels that sort them.
Resources fall into three groups. Inexhaustible ones, like sunlight and wind, cannot run out however much we use. Renewable ones, like timber and fish, grow back if people take them no faster than they return. Nonrenewable ones, like coal and oil, took millions of years to form, and much of the world's coal comes from swamp plants buried more than 300 million years ago. The first commercial oil well was drilled by Edwin Drake at Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859, and it struck oil at 69 feet.
Bauxite is the ore of aluminum, named after the village of Les Baux in southern France where it was identified in 1821. Getting the metal out was so hard that aluminum once cost more than silver, and in 1884 a small aluminum pyramid was set on top of the Washington Monument as a showpiece. Two years later a new electric process made the metal cheap enough for pots and pans.
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Natural Resources has.
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- Bauxite
- Biomass
- Clay
- Coal
- Copper
- Cotton
- Crops
- Depletion
- Drilling
- Farming
- Fish
- Forest
- Fossil Fuel
- Freshwater
- Geothermal
- Gold
- Hydropower
- Inexhaustible
- Iron Ore
- Land
- Livestock
- Logging
- Mining
- Natural Gas
- Nonrenewable
- Petroleum
- Pipeline
- Quarry
- Raw Material
- Refinery
- Reserves
- Rubber
- Salt
- Scarcity
- Silver
- Sunlight
- Timber
- Uranium
- Wind
- Wool