Fascinating Facts Most Americans use nearly seven hundred pounds of paper each year. Thirty-nine percent of things put in landfills are made of paper and could have been recycled. It takes between five hundred and one thousand years for just one inch of rich soil to form. Genre Nonfiction Comprehension Skill Draw Conclusions Text Features Captions Headings/Subheadings Map Time Line Scott Foresman Social Studies ISBN 0-328-14828-8 ì<(sk$m)=beici < +^-Ä-U-Ä-U by Barbara Bigelow In this book you will read about natural resources. Natural resources come from the earth. Different parts of the United States have different resources. Vocabulary natural resources Write to It! Look around the room. What things come from natural resources? Write two or three sentences about your ideas. Write your sentences on a separate sheet of paper. region physical environment landform climate fuel mineral communities Illustration 3 ©Guy Porfirio 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. by Barbara Bigelow 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) ISBN: 0-328-14828-8 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 V