Chaptr 1 and 2 Geography Flashcards
What is a natural resource?
Raw materials that occurr in the environment and which are necessary or useful to people
What is a renweable resource?
A recourse which can be replaced over a short period of time
What is a non-renewable resource?
can ony be replaced over millions of years
Give 2 examples of renewable resources?
Solar energy, water, wind energy
What is precipitation
When vapour gets too heavy and falls as rain
What is Condensation?
When vapour condenses and cools
ehat is blue water
water that is in lakes and rivers and in the ground
what is green water
water stored in planst and crips
ehat is runoff?
precipitation that is not absorbed by soil and runs into rivers and streams
what is imprived drinking water
water that is safe for human consumption
Examples of a atural resource
Water forests and soils
What resources are significantly effected by human activity?
Forests and water
Two problems that people face with natural resources are:
Access and supply meaning that people cannot access natural resources and that they dont have enough of it.
Is water a renewable resource? Why?
Yes becuase it is constantly being recycled throu the wate cycle
Where would water have been in the same place the longest? Why?
In the Arctic and Antarctic because the water is frozen, in the ground and in lakes and oceans
