Some of the resources we use are renewable and and some are not. Learn about both hers.

Nonrenewable Resources
Nonrenewable resource are those natural resources that cannot be replaced once they are used up. Some examples include:

• oil
• coal
• gas
• uranium

Renewable Resources
Renewable resources are those resources that can be replaced as they are used up. Some examples include:

• soil
• air
• water
• wood
• sunlight

In Amusement Parks
There are many other resources that you can use in an amusement park. Gas and oil are nonrenewable resources required for running some rides. A renewable resource would be water. Water can be used in lots of places in amusement parks. Water can be used on rides. The water can be used to make a ride well actually run. It can also be used to make a ride more exciting. Splash Mountain at Disney's Magic Kingdom is a ride where you probably are not going to come off dry. It is a very exciting yet wet flume ride.

Science/How Living Things Interact with their Environment

Standard 2: The student understands the consequences of using limited natural resources. (SC.G.2.3)

Objective 1: Knows that some resources are renewable and others are nonrenewable.

Amusement Park Activity

Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources- Imagine everything
in an amusement park was a natural resource. Classify amusement park things into either renewable or nonrewable resources.

Vocabulary

Resources - Something that can
become of valuble use.

Renewable - a natural resource
is considered renewable, if there
is something to replace it as it is
used up.

Nonrenewable- a natural
resource is considered non-
renewable if it cannot be replaced
once it is used up.

Links

Everything Comes from
Something This National
Geographic Xpeditions website
includes lesson plans about
how we use our natural
resources.