Grade 5 Natural Resources worksheet
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How to explain it
- Renewable resources are replaced by nature, like sunlight, wind and trees.
- Non-renewable resources, like oil and minerals, take millions of years to form.
- Reduce means use less. Reuse means use again. Recycle means make into something new.
- Solar panels and wind turbines make electricity without burning fuel.
Example: You bring a refillable bottle instead of buying bottled water. Reduce, reuse or recycle? You are using fewer new bottles in the first place. Using less is reducing. Answer: reduce
Question 1
Put the steps of recycling paper in order.
- 🏭It is sorted at a recycling plant
- ♻️Used paper goes into a recycling bin
- 💧It is mixed with water to make pulp
- 📄The pulp is pressed and dried into new paper
Used paper goes into a recycling bin → It is sorted at a recycling plant → It is mixed with water to make pulp → The pulp is pressed and dried into new paper
Hint: Paper is collected, sorted, broken down into pulp with water, and then pressed and dried into new paper.
Question 2
Paper and metal cans can both be recycled. How many kilograms of those two types did the class collect altogether?
Leo's class: one week of school waste (kg) answer boxkg
23 kg
Hint: Add the paper and metal cans bars: 16 + 7 = 23.
Question 3
Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide. Why is this a concern?
🏭- it makes the air colder
- it adds to climate change
- it makes trees stop growing
- it creates more oil underground
it adds to climate change
Hint: Carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. Adding a lot of it is warming Earth's climate.
Question 4
Renewable or non-renewable? Tap a resource, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 🔄 renewable · ⛏️ non-renewable
- ⚫coal
- 🪙gold
- 🐟fish
- 🌬️wind
- 🌲trees
- 🪨copper ore
🔄 renewable: fish, wind, trees · ⛏️ non-renewable: coal, gold, copper ore
Hint: Renewable resources can be replaced by nature in a human lifetime. Non-renewable ones took millions of years to form and are limited.
Question 5
Hydroelectric power plants use which resource to make electricity?
⚡- coal
- natural gas
- moving water
- uranium
moving water
Hint: 'Hydro' means water. Falling or flowing water spins turbines to make electricity.
Question 6
Many First Peoples have long followed the idea of taking only what is needed. How does this help resources?
🌿- it uses resources up faster
- it means resources are never used at all
- it only matters for non-renewable resources
- it leaves enough for plants and animals to renew
it leaves enough for plants and animals to renew
Hint: Taking only what you need means there's enough left to grow back for future generations.
Question 7
Copper is mined from rocks. What is it often used for?
🔌- paper
- window glass
- electrical wires
- cooking oil
electrical wires
Hint: Copper carries electricity very well, so it's used in wires in homes and electronics.
Question 8
Which Earth material is the main ingredient used to make cement for buildings?
🏗️- pumice
- obsidian
- limestone
- diamond
limestone
Hint: Cement is made by heating crushed limestone with clay. Cement is then used to make concrete.
Question 9
How do fossil fuels form? Put the steps in order.
- 🔥Heat and pressure act on them for millions of years
- 🟫Their remains are buried under layers of sediment
- 🛢️They slowly become coal, oil or natural gas
- 🌿Ancient plants and tiny sea creatures live and die
Ancient plants and tiny sea creatures live and die → Their remains are buried under layers of sediment → Heat and pressure act on them for millions of years → They slowly become coal, oil or natural gas
Hint: Living things died, were buried, and then heat and pressure acted on them over millions of years.
Question 10
Which action helps keep forests a renewable resource?
🌲- planting new trees after logging
- cutting every tree in an area
- building roads through every forest
- leaving garbage in the forest
planting new trees after logging
Hint: Trees are renewable only if new ones are given the chance to grow back.
Answer key
- 1. Used paper goes into a recycling bin → It is sorted at a recycling plant → It is mixed with water to make pulp → The pulp is pressed and dried into new paper
- 2. 23 kg
- 3. it adds to climate change
- 4. 🔄 renewable: fish, wind, trees · ⛏️ non-renewable: coal, gold, copper ore
- 5. moving water
- 6. it leaves enough for plants and animals to renew
- 7. electrical wires
- 8. limestone
- 9. Ancient plants and tiny sea creatures live and die → Their remains are buried under layers of sediment → Heat and pressure act on them for millions of years → They slowly become coal, oil or natural gas
- 10. planting new trees after logging
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