Non-renewable resource

High school (ages 12+)
Environment & Earth

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/non-renewable-resource

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the primary uses?Energy generation, transportation fuels, industrial feedstocks, construction materials, and manufacturing
2. What is the environmental considerations?Extraction impacts, greenhouse gas emissions from combustion, and potential for resource depletion
3. What are non-renewable resources?They are treasures like coal, oil, gas, metals that were formed over millions of years and we cannot make more of them.
4. How do fossil fuels like coal form?They start as dead plants and animals that get buried in places without oxygen, then heat and pressure turn them into coal over millions of years.

Anthropogenic: Originating from human activity rather than natural processes.
Petrochemicals: Chemical products derived from petroleum or natural gas.
Resource Depletion: The exhaustion of a natural resource to the point where it is no longer economically viable to extract.