NAT_R 2160- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 20 pages long!)
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Natural resources: not man-made, materials we utilize to make ourselves more efficient, some sort of material that we can utilize, renewables, non-renewables, potential, abstract. Renewable: reusable, regenerates, replaceable, rate of consumption is less than the rate of recharge, examples, *water, air, solar, *trees/lumber, *nuclear, geothermal, *natural gas, plant tissues, *humans, *food, *soil, wind, tides. Non-renewable: rate of consumption is greater than the rate of recharge, examples, coal/fossil fuels, oil/petroleum, metal minerals, non-metal minerals, iron, aluminum, copper, salts, phosphates, spatial distribution, temporal distribution, amount needed, by product. *trees/lumber- deforestatio(cid:374) (cid:272)utti(cid:374)g do(cid:449)(cid:374) trees a(cid:374)d (cid:374)ot gro(cid:449)i(cid:374)g (cid:374)e(cid:449) o(cid:374)es takes lo(cid:374)g ti(cid:373)e for a tree to grow fully, making it non-renewable too. *soil- contamination event takes (cid:1005)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1004) years to (cid:373)ake o(cid:374)e i(cid:374)(cid:272)h of soil, (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g it (cid:374)o(cid:374)-renewable too. *natural gas- comes from the ground, making it non-renewable too. *humans- you (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t repla(cid:272)e hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s, (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g it (cid:374)o(cid:374)-renewable too.
