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Activity 3.2.1 – Natural Resources Review

All of us need food, water, and air to survive. All of these things we consume in our life's are called natural resources and are made from nature. Present day there are so many humans that populate this world a lot of these resources are being used. This is where we run into a issues over environmental challenges and how we maintain our resources for sustaining life. There are two terms used for the natural resources consumed and are labeled renewable and non renewable resources. Renewable resources include water, air, and trees (1:11) these are all resources that can be made again fast. Non renewable are now resources that take a long time "even millions of years" (8:00). We can start to struggle with maintaining these resources from problems and are referred to as a unsustainable situation (13:13) which can happen from overpopulation and overconsumption of these resources that is why we have made resources like synthetics and recycled used up items, this is known as resource stability (13:36). Work Cited Jerome, Brian A. “Exploring Natural Resources.” Shibboleth Authentication Request, Alexander Street, 2017, video-alexanderstreet-com.nvc.idm.oclc.org/watch/exploring-natural-resources. US National Park Service (NPS). (2019). What we do. US Department of Interior. https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/index.htm

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