CHAPTER 5 : NATURAL RESOURCES

Question 1

___ are components that exist in the world
without the input of humans. These are diverse ranging from
renewable to nonrenewable, living to nonliving, as well as
tangible to intangible resources

Answer 1

Natural resources

Question 2

Natural resources are essential to our ___ and that of all other
living organisms.

Answer 2

survival

Question 3

What causes the high demand for natural resources around the world

Answer 3

rapid depletion

Question 4

We need natural resources for our ___,
___, ___, and ___.

Answer 4

survival, growth, development, progress

Question 5

What are the things that can be transformed to produce benefits (Chan, 2016)

Answer 5

materials, water, energy, minerals, and others

Question 6

classification of natural resources

Answer 6

renewable and
nonrenewable resources

Question 7

solar energy, air, wind, water, tides, flowing, soil, and plants are classification of what resources

Answer 7

renewable

Question 8

fossil fuels, non metallic minerals, and metallic minerals are components of what classification of resources

Answer 8

nonrenewable

Question 9

•Can be used repeatedly and does not run out
because it
is naturally replaced
•resource that can replenish itself at a similar
rate to its
use by people.

Answer 9

Renewable Natural Resources

Question 10

•are those whose exploitation eventually reaches a
level beyond which regeneration will become
impossible.
•Such is the case with the clear-cutting of tropical
forests (OECD, 2001a).

Answer 10

Conditionally renewable resources

Question 11

Since earth formed, the ___ has produced
energy in the form of heat and light. It is
considered unlimited

Answer 11

sun

Question 12

Radiation from the sun is converted into
electricity with the use of ___

Answer 12

photovoltaic cells

Question 13

Major solar farms in the Philippines can be
found in ___, ___, ___, and ___

Answer 13

Cavite, Pampanga, Ilocos Norte, and
Cagayan de Oro

Question 14

It generates electricity by turning wind turbines
that can supply power and it can even be stored in
the power grid.

Answer 14

Wind Energy

Question 15

Since earth formed, the sun has produced
energy in the form of heat and light. It is
considered unlimited

Answer 15

Solar energy

Question 16

What is the country’s oldest wind
farm and the first power-generating wind farm in
Southeast Asia

Answer 16

The Bangui Wind Farm in Ilocos Norte at the north-
west tip of Luzon island

Question 17

The mechanical energy creates energy that can
be captured and turned into ___.

Answer 17

electricity

Question 18

Water is
constantly renewed by the

Answer 18

water cycle

Question 19

___ is one of the oldest renewable
resources and has been used for thousands of
years

Answer 19

Hydropower

Question 20

___use the flow of rivers
and streams to turn a turbine to power a
generator, releasing electricity.

Answer 20

Hydroelectric power plants

Question 21

It comes from the heat generated deep within
Earth’s core.

Answer 21

Geothermal Energy

Question 22

___ can be found at tectonic
plate boundaries near volcanic activity or deep
underground.

Answer 22

Geothermal reservoirs

Question 23

Geothermal energy can be harnessed by ___ to pump hot
water or steam to a power plant.

Answer 23

drilling wells

Question 24

Geothermal energy is used for

Answer 24

heating and
electricity

Question 25

•It refers to organic material from plants or animals including wood, sewage, and ethanol
(which comes from corn or other plants).

•This organic material has absorbed energy from
the Sun. This energy is, in turn, released as heat
energy when burned.

Answer 25

Biomass

Question 26

A natural substance that is not replenished with
the speed at which it is consumed.

Answer 26

Non-Renewable Resources

Question 27

It was formed within the Earth from
decomposing plants and other organisms,
buried beneath layers of sediment and
rock, over millions of years to become
carbon-rich deposits.

Answer 27

Fossil fuels

Question 28

Fossil fuels are forms of stored ___

Answer 28

solar energy

Question 29

When fossil fuels are burned, they release

Answer 29

carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases

Question 30

the primary contributors to
global warming and climate change (Nunez,
2019).

Answer 30

carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases

Question 31

___ is a liquid fossil fuel.

Answer 31

Oil

Question 32

___ is a black or brownish rock.

Answer 32

Coal

Question 33

We burn coal to
create ___

Answer 33

energy

Question 34

How many land resources are available to us

Answer 34

10%

Question 35

How many of natural gas are available to us

Answer 35

15%

Question 36

How many animal resources are available to us

Answer 36

25%

Question 37

How many forest resources are available to us

Answer 37

30%

Question 38

How many wind energy are available to us

Answer 38

15%

Question 39

How many solar energy are available to us

Answer 39

5%

Question 40

___ are naturally occurring inorganic
substances found under varying conditions
and in different types of geological
environments.

Answer 40

Minerals

Question 41

Minerals have a crystalline structure and come
with a definite ___

Answer 41

chemical composition.

Question 42

Minerals are divided into two types, namely:
___ and ___ minerals.

Answer 42

metallic and nonmetallic

Question 43

•are composed of one or more metallic elements;
•obtained from ores

Answer 43

Metallic minerals

Question 44

•do not contain any metal elements instead they consist
of chemical elements that usually don’t feature the
properties or characteristics of metals. (BYJU’s, n.d.)

•procured from industrial rocks and minerals

Answer 44

Nonmetallic minerals

Question 45

Examples of metallic minerals

Answer 45

Copper, tin, iron, manganese, gold,
etc.

Question 46

Examples of nonmetallic minerals

Answer 46

Carbon, gypsum, potash, precious
stones, boron, sulfur, mica, quartz, dolomite,
diamond etc.