Geografia

January 18, 2013
Geography
Hw. No. 11, Natural Resources
I.-Answer the following questions, used wiki.answers.com/Q to find the correct answer.Write your answer with red ink.( include heading,logo and theme )

How are the natural resources being overused and how can you conserve them ?
Coal is often used by power-plants to produce electricity. If people would use electricity moreefficiently, there would be less demand for electric power and thus less coal to be burned.

b) How can you conserve and protect our natural resources ?
Use Renewable Energy.

c) Why should you conservenatural resources ?
Natural resources should be conserved because in the future we will be needing resources such as oil and petrol for many purposes and instead of using fossil fuels for producingenergy and polluting environment and it improves the life span of it.

d) How does recycling conserve natural resources ?
Recycling involves processing used materials into new products to preventwaste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from landfilling) by reducingthe need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production Recycling is a key component of modern waste reduction and is the third component of the"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" waste hierarchy.

e) How natural resources are being used ?
Natural resources are being used to make money, plastic, solor power and more.

f) What are the renewableresources which are being overused ?
Forest , water and range/grasslands resource.

g) Why do you need to conserve natural resources ?
We know that Earth is covered with natural resources. But we usethese without any thought. That is not a good news for us, because the environment of earth is filled with living things, and the living and non living components affect each other (Theory of...