1. Renewable vs. Nonrenewable
Resources
Renewable vs. Nonrenewable

3. 1) Renewable resources can be replenished within a relatively short time (months, or years, or tens of years).

4. 2) Nonrenewable resources form very slowly, over millions of years, over time periods of millions of years.

5. 3) Nonrenewable resources form very slowly on or within the Earth.

6. 4) Nonrenewable resources accumulate slowly according to the human time scale.

7. 5) Earth has a set quantity of the resources.

8. 6) Renewable resources include:
fresh water fresh air

9. 6) Renewable resources include:
plants
plant products
(food, natural fibers, lumber, fuel)

10. 6) Renewable resources include:
animals
animal products (food, leather)

11. 6) Renewable resources include:
wind moving water

12. 6) Renewable resources include:
sun for energy

13. 7) Nonrenewable resources include:
fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas)

14. 7) Nonrenewable resources include:
soil

15. 7) Nonrenewable resources include:
metallic minerals (iron, copper, gold, silver, lead, mercury, zinc, uranium)

16. 7) Nonrenewable resources include:
nonmetallic minerals (kaolin, salt, lime, sulfur, diamonds, sand)

17. 8) The future supply of most non-renewable resources is uncertain, but “running out” is less of an issue than how much it will cost to extract the resource as the supply diminishes.