1. Pollution and Conservation
Objective-
-Identify the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources
-Create ways to conserve resources

2. Key Vocabulary Fossil fuels Renewable and Nonrenewable resources
Conservation
Reduce
Reuse
recycle

3. Question What were some ways you came up with to conserve water?
What other things should we conserve?

4. Renewable vs. Nonrenewable resources
Renewable-any natural resource that can be replenished naturally over time (eg. wood or solar energy)
NONrenewable- any natural resource that cannot be replaced once it is used up(eg. oil and coal)

5. What are fossil fuels?
Why do we need to conserve fossil fuels?

6. Conservation (to conserve)
Definition- the protection of plants and animals, natural areas and resources
What is REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE
Reduce-use LESS
Reuse- use something AGAIN
Recycle- make something new from old materials

7. What can we do? What are ways we can conserve our RENEWABLE resources?
What about NONRENEWABLE resources?
How can YOU reduce, reuse or recycle?

8. Pollution and Conservation
Objective-
-Identify the effects of pollution to land, water, and air
-Describe ways to reduce pollution

9. Review Ways to conserve renewable and nonrenewable resources:
Turn off lights when not in use
Carpool or ride bikes or walk
Don’t throw everything away. Donate or recycle
Use less paper/ write on both sides
Play outside- use less tv/video games
Solar power

10. Key Vocabulary
Environment
Pollution
Acid rain
Litter

11. What is Pollution?
The things that make up an area- air, water and land- form our environment
Pollution is when a harmful substance is added to the environment
-can come from natural sources like forest fires and volcanoes
-most comes from humans

12. List cause and effects of water, air and land pollution

13. Air Pollution Gases and dust get in the air when burning fossil fuels
Gases can combine with water droplets to form acid rain- which can harm living things and damage buildings
Other gases can form smog- makes it hard to breath

14. Water Pollution
-People dump waste from homes or factories into oceans, lakes and rivers
-Fertilizers and pesticides can be washed away into nearby waters during storms
-Oil spills from ships can pollute water
-many fish, birds and mammals can be harmed or killed

15. Land Pollution Litter- throwing trash on the ground Against the law
Pollutes land and soil

16. List cause and effects of water, air and land pollution
Use your chart for your ticket out the door. Write a cause and effect of water, land or air pollution.
EX- A cause of _______ pollution is ___________. An effect of this is _________________________.

17. What can we do???
Write some ways we can stop water, air and land pollution