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Consolidation Worksheet 1
What Are Natural Resources and
Why Are They Important?
Put a tick (ü) in the correct column to indicate if each statement is true or false.

Statements True False

Without natural resources, we would not be able
1
to survive.
2 Wind energy is not an example of a natural resource.
Oxygen is produced when plants and microorganisms
3
such as phytoplankton in the sea photosynthesise.
4 Less than 3% of the world’s water is usable.
Renewable resources are more likely to get depleted
5
than non-renewable resources.
6 All fossil fuels are non-renewable.

Group the resources in the box according to whether they are renewable or
non-renewable in the flowchart below.

Air Biomass Coal Living things

Natural gas Oil Water

Resources

Renewable Non-renewable

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Consolidation Worksheet 2
How Has Man Negatively Affected
the Environment?
Match the causes and effects by filling in the boxes below with these
helping words. Each word can only be used once.

Acid rain Burning of fossil fuels Deforestation

Global warming Haze Oil spill Soil erosion

Causes Effects

Release of greenhouse gases into the air

Corrosion of buildings and statues

Negative health effects which are more

serious for those with respiratory problems

Muddy water

Adverse effects on marine organisms

and sea birds

Loss of natural habitats for organisms

living in trees, forests or jungles

Melting of ice caps and extreme

climate changes

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Consolidation Worksheet 3
How Can We Care for Our Environment?
Fill in the boxes with ‘Reduce’, ‘Reuse’ or ‘Recycle’. Each word can be used
more than once.

Make newspapers from used papers

Water plants with the water previously used to wash rice

Switch off lights when they are not in use

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 Take short showers instead of long baths

Create useful objects using scrap materials

Build cars using steel from used metals

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Fun and Wordsearch!

Games
Fill in the blanks to complete the statements below. Then, find the answers which
are hidden in the letter grid below. The answers can be found written horizontally,
vertically and diagonally!

1. Clean air and fresh water are very important natural .

2. resources can be replaced by nature.
3. refers to the introduction of harmful matter into an environment.
4. Carbon dioxide is an example of a gas as it is able to trap heat.
5. Harmful sprayed by farmers on their crops are sometimes
absorbed by the crops.
6. happens when too many trees are cut to produce things such
as paper and furniture.
7. Global causes the Earth’s to rise. This will cause
polar ice caps to .
8. We can reduce waste by practising the 3Rs, namely, Reduce, Reuse and
.

M G O R E S O U R C E S G
E L R Z T M Y S B D H K R
L D T E M P E R A T U R E
T P L Q N J P P K D G U E
D E F O R E S T A T I O N
J S R P Q N W R J L P Q H
F T L E M L E A N V S J O
Q I H K C L A Q B M G D U
G C J D C Y P B Q L S F S
H I N Y S F B T L R E V E
K D C R P O L L U T I O N
L E N Q D F J S E V Q P H
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Exam Practice
Process skills: Observing, Analysing, Inferring

The graph below shows the acidity level of the soil in a town where a new factory
was opened.

Acidity level
of the soil

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Year

a. From the graph, deduce the year in which the factory was opened
in the town. [1 mark]

b. Explain your answer in ‘a’. [2 marks]

c. Following protests by activists, the factory installed filters to remove harmful

gases before releasing its waste materials into the air. From the graph, deduce
the year in which the filters were installed. [1 mark]

d. Explain your answer in ‘c’. [2 marks] Hint:

How does a
decrease in the
amount of harmful
gases released into
the air affect the
amount of acid
rain formed?

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Consolidation Worksheet 1 Consolidation Worksheet 2

What Are Natural Resources and How Has Man Negatively Affected
Why Are They Important? the Environment?
Put a tick (ü) in the correct column to indicate if each statement is true or false. Match the causes and effects by filling in the boxes below with these
helping words. Each word can only be used once.

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Statements True False
Acid rain Burning of fossil fuels Deforestation
Without natural resources, we would not be able
1 ✓ Global warming Haze Oil spill Soil erosion
to survive.
2 Wind energy is not an example of a natural resource. ✓
Causes Effects
Oxygen is produced when plants and microorganisms
3 ✓
such as phytoplankton in the sea photosynthesise. Burning of fossil fuels Release of greenhouse gases into the air
4 Less than 3% of the world’s water is usable. ✓
Renewable resources are more likely to get depleted
5 ✓
than non-renewable resources. Acid rain Corrosion of buildings and statues
6 All fossil fuels are non-renewable. ✓
Negative health effects which are more
Group the resources in the box according to whether they are renewable or Haze
serious for those with respiratory problems
non-renewable in the flowchart below.

Air Biomass Coal Living things Soil erosion Muddy water

Natural gas Oil Water

Resources Adverse effects on marine organisms

Oil spill
and sea birds

Loss of natural habitats for organisms

Renewable Non-renewable Deforestation
living in trees, forests or jungles
Air Coal
Biomass Natural gas
Melting of ice caps and extreme
Living things Oil Global warming
climate changes
Water

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Consolidation Worksheet 3 Reduce

How Can We Care for Our Environment?

Fill in the boxes with ‘Reduce’, ‘Reuse’ or ‘Recycle’. Each word can be used Take short showers instead of long baths
more than once.

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Recycle
Reuse

Make newspapers from used papers

Create useful objects using scrap materials

Reuse
Recycle

Water plants with the water previously used to wash rice

Build cars using steel from used metals

Reduce

Switch off lights when they are not in use

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Fun and Wordsearch! Exam Practice

Games
Process skills: Observing, Analysing, Inferring
Fill in the blanks to complete the statements below. Then, find the answers which
are hidden in the letter grid below. The answers can be found written horizontally, The graph below shows the acidity level of the soil in a town where a new factory
vertically and diagonally! was opened.

1. Clean air and fresh water are very important natural resources . Acidity level

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2. Renewable resources can be replaced by nature. of the soil
3. Pollution refers to the introduction of harmful matter into an environment.
4. Carbon dioxide is an example of a greenhouse gas as it is able to trap heat.
5. Harmful pesticides sprayed by farmers on their crops are sometimes
absorbed by the crops.
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Year
6. Deforestation happens when too many trees are cut to produce things such
as paper and furniture. a. From the graph, deduce the year in which the factory was opened
7. Global warming causes the Earth’s temperature to rise. This will cause in the town. [1 mark]
polar ice caps to melt . 2010
8. We can reduce waste by practising the 3Rs, namely, Reduce, Reuse and
Recycle . b. Explain your answer in ‘a’. [2 marks]
The acidity level of the soil rose sharply in 2010. This could be due to the
M G O R E S O U R C E S G
E L R Z T M Y S B D H K R formation of acid rain as a result of the harmful gases being released by the

L D T E M P E R A T U R E factory mixing with rainwater.

T P L Q N J P P K D G U E
c. Following protests by activists, the factory installed filters to remove harmful
D E F O R E S T A T I O N gases before releasing its waste materials into the air. From the graph, deduce
J S R P Q N W R J L P Q H the year in which the filters were installed. [1 mark]

F T L E M L E A N V S J O 2011

Q I H K C L A Q B M G D U d. Explain your answer in ‘c’. [2 marks] Hint:

G C J D C Y P B Q L S F S How does a
There was less increase in the acidity level of the soil in 2011. decrease in the
H I N Y S F B T L R E V E amount of harmful
The filters ensured that less harmful gases entered the air
K D C R P O L L U T I O N gases released into
the air affect the
and mixed with the rainwater. Thus, less acid rain was formed
L E N Q D F J S E V Q P H amount of acid
and the acidity of the soil did not increase as much as before. rain formed?
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Conserve To protect resources from damage, change or wastage

Deforestation The destruction of forests on a massive scale

Fossil fuel A substance formed by the decomposition of dead organisms

that were buried millions of years ago

Global warming The continuous rise in the average temperature of the Earth’s
atmosphere

Greenhouse effect The trapping of heat by the Earth’s atmosphere

Greenhouse gas A gas that causes the greenhouse effect

Natural resource Something that people can use which comes from nature

Non-biodegradable Cannot be broken down by decomposers

Non-renewable Cannot be replaced by nature

Pollutant A substance that causes pollution

Pollution The introduction of harmful matter into the environment

Recycle To break down and process old materials to become new
materials

Reduce To use less or use only what you need

Renewable Can be replaced by nature

Reuse To use old items again instead of throwing them away

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