Finite resources have a limit, or an end and will run out.

Hydro-electric power generates electricity by using water.

Geothermal energy comes from heat contained within the Earth's crust.

An unsustainable resource is one that is being used more or faster than it can be replaced or regrown.

Identifying renewable and non-renewable energy sources

Geography

Introducing natural resources

Global food production and its impacts

Economic minerals and their uses

Wood and its many uses

Water: our essential resource

This unit supports 'South America: Why does the Amazon matter?' and learning about why the Amazon matters, with its vast natural resources of water, forests and biodiversity, and to 'Energy: How do we power the world?', which explores energy in more detail.

This builds on 'Local area: Why are trees and forests important?', learning about the value of trees as a natural resource in the local area to learn about different types of natural resources globally, their unequal distribution, and some of the threats they face or pose.

This unit introduces natural resources, including food, water, minerals and energy. Pupils explore where different resources are found, how they are used, and the effects of this use on people and the environment.

Natural resources: what are they, where are they found, why are they important?

All energy on Earth comes {{}} or indirectly from the Sun. 

Where does all energy on Earth come from?

Millions of years ago, plants used the Sun’s energy to create food

When these plants and leaves died, they got buried under rocks and soil

Over millions of years, heat and pressure hardened the dead vegetation into coal

Coal has energy from the Sun. Put these sentences in order to explain how.

non-renewable - it is a solid fossil fuel

renewable - it produces power from sea tides

Match these resources to the types of renewable or non-renewable (finite) resources they are.

Biomass is a natural material that can be used as fuel. What kind of material is it? Unscramble the letters to help you answer the question.

When something is renewable, that means it will not be used up or ...

Match these resources to the type of natural resources they are.

Resource {{}} means how resources are spread out across a geographic area.

What type of energy does the sun provide as well as heat energy? Unscramble the letters to help you find the correct answer.  

Identifying renewable and non-renewable energy sources

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