Earth Science by Colin Kong Genre Nonfiction Comprehension Skill Compare and Contrast Text Features Captions Labels Call outs Glossary Science Content Natural Resources Scott Foresman Science 3.9 ISBN 0-328-13832-0 ì<(sk$m)=bdidcg< +^-Ä-U-Ä-U Vocabulary What did you learn? conservation 1. What are three examples of nonrenewable by Colin Kong resources? natural resource Natural Resources nonrenewable resource 2. How can farmers conserve soil? recycle 3. Why is it easy to recycle today? renewable resource 4. In this book, you read about landfills and the need to reduce, reuse, and recycle our resources. Write to explain how reducing, reusing, and recycling would affect our landfills. Use examples from the book to support your answer. 5. Compare and Contrast How are renewable resources similar to nonrenewable resources? How are they different? Photographs: Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions. Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education. Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R) Background (Bkgd) Opener: ©Peter Walton/Index Stock Imagery; Title Page: ©Galen Rowell/Corbis; 2 ©Taxi/Getty Images; 3 Digital Vision; 4 Richard M. Busch; 5 Digital Vision; 6 ©Alan Towse/Ecoscene/Corbis; 7 ©Kevin Fleming/Corbis; 8 ©Jaye Phillips/Index Stock Imagery; 9 ©Stone/Getty Images; 11 ©Eunice Harris/ Index Stock Imagery; 12 (TL) ©Hal Lott/Corbis, (B) ©Photodisc Blue/Getty Images; 13 (BL) ©Jose Azel/Aurora & Quanta Productions, (CR) ©Stephen Barnett/ImageState; 14 ©Liz Hymans/Corbis; 15 ©Dennis Brack/Black Star ISBN: 0-328-13832-0 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is protec