How Can Non Living Things Have An Ecological Footprint

Question: Nature makes natural resources at (similiar, varied) speeds.

Answer: varied

Question: Examples of renewable resources.

Answer: fruits, sun, waves, wind

Question: Examples of nonrewable resources.

Answer: coal, oil, natural gas

Question: For most of human history, population has been (high, low) and relatively stable.

Answer: low

Question: The Industrial Revolution marked a shift from a rural society to an urban society powered by (renewable, non-renewable) resources.

Answer: non-renewable

Question: Our ecological footprint is affected by the number of people on Earth and how much we ______

Answer: consume

Question: The tragedy of the commons refers to the overuse of (regulated, unregulated) resources.

Answer: unregulated

Question: Similarities of living on Earth and an Island

Answer: both have limited natural resources

Question: Why are sunlight and oil on the opposite sides of the renewability continuum?

Answer: Sunlight is a renewable resource which means it is available most of the time. Oil is nonrenewable because it takes a long time to reproduce itself in the earth. people use it faster than the earth can make it.

Question: What could cause a renewable natural resource to become a nonrenwable resource.

Answer: if it is used at an unsustainable rate it becomes nonrenewable. (unsustainable means the resource can’t keep up.

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