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Exploring Natural Resources and Sustainable Farming Practices

Learn about natural resources, their usage, and conservation methods. Explore how forests provide lumber, oil fuels transportation, and farms produce food. Discover ways to conserve resources for a sustainable future.

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Exploring Natural Resources and Sustainable Farming Practices

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  1. Natural Resources

  2. Using Resources

  3. Caring For Resources

  4. Food Production

  5. Farms

  6. Farm to Table

  7. Natural Resources Using Resources Caring For Resources Food Production Farms Farm to Table $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500

  8. What is a natural resources? Page 2-3

  9. Something found in nature that people can use

  10. How is a forest a natural resources? Page 2-3

  11. A forest provides lumber for building.

  12. How is oil a natural resource? Page 2-3

  13. People turn oil into gasoline for cars and diesel fuel for trucks.

  14. Why is California’s Central Valley a good place for planting? Page 2-3

  15. It has lots of sunlight, clean water and rich soil. The days are not too hot or cold.

  16. Why is the Midwest (IOWA) a great place for corn growing? Page 2-3

  17. It provides many hours of sunlight and lots of water.

  18. What resource do people use on the desert? Page 4-5

  19. The cactus fruit can be eaten like an apple. People can also make it into a jelly or syrup.

  20. How is sand a natural resource? Page 4-5

  21. Sand melts into a liquid that turns into glass.

  22. How do we use the natural resource of cotton? Page 4-5

  23. We use the cotton plant to make our clothing.

  24. How do we use the sun as a natural resources? Page 4-5

  25. Solar panels capture sunlight and turns it into electricity.

  26. How is the mineral copper an important natural resource? Page 4-5

  27. Electrical wires are made with copper.

  28. What is conservations? Page 6-7

  29. Working to save resources or to make them last longer is called conservations.

  30. How can we conserve fish in the ocean? Page 6-7

  31. Make rules and laws about the number of fish you are allowed to catch.

  32. How can we conserve food? Page 6-7

  33. You can make a compost heap and use it in your garden.

  34. How can we conserve on lumber? Page 6-7

  35. We can recycle paper products.

  36. What is an example of a resources that is unlimited? Page 6-7

  37. Wind is an unlimited resource because we’ll never run out of it.

  38. How did people long ago pickle foods? Page 8-9

  39. People pickled foods by putting them in vinegar or other acids to kill germs.

  40. How has getting fish and meat changed from long to today? Page 8-9

  41. In the past people hunted and fished to get food. Today people buy fish and meat at stores.

  42. How has saving food changed from long ago today? Page 8-9

  43. Long ago people dried food in the sun and wind. Today food goes to a processing center and gets canned.

  44. How has getting milk changed from long ago to today? Page 8-9

  45. Long ago, farmers had their own cow and stored the milk in a springhouse. Today milk comes from a big farm and comes from a processing center.

  46. How has getting fruits and vegetables changed? Page 8-9

  47. Native Americans gathered plant foods and grew crops. Today we purchase our fruits and vegetables at stores that traveled by trains and trucks from far away.

  48. What kinds of things will you see if you were a bird soaring above a farm? Page 10-11

  49. A silo Henhouse Cow barn Pigsty Cattle and sheet in pastures bugs

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