CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES

Rethink, Reduce, recycle, repair

IMPORTANT WORDS Conservation-To protect natural resources and use

them carefully. Environment-Living and nonliving things that are

around an organism. Waste-Not good or useful. Recycling-Changing waste into some thing new and

useful. Reduce-making less waste. Reuse-Using something more than once. Landfill-A public place to dump waste. Pollution-things that hurt the environment. Dispose-Get rid of or throw away.

CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES To reuse or recycle our natural resources to save our world

and keeping the animals and plants from getting extinct.

THE NATURAL RESOURCES The natural resources are the Sun’s solar

energy, the water from lakes, oceans, rivers, ponds, ice caps, and glaciers. One of the most important is the oxygen in the air we breathe. Oxygen helps us live better.

Here are some of the natural resources of the Earth.

THE FOUR R’S ARE IMPORTANT

The four R’s are:RethinkReduceRecycle repair

If we do these things daily, it will help to stop oil spills, air pollution, and it will really help to improve the Earth!

NEW HABITATS This will really help the animals to get

used to their new homes. If we took away their homes by cutting down trees and by dumping chemicals in the oceans, then the animals would be dying because they would have no place to live!

EXTINCTION If there were no natural resources then

the animals would start to die and become extinct. Then the same thing would be happening to us in the cause of no water, food, clean air, and no shelter or houses to live in.

WATER RESOURCES A lot of water is being wasted in ways if

a lot of people take long showers or bathes, leave the water on while brushing teeth, washing hands or dishes. It is important we use water at needed times, and turn off the tap if we’re not using it.

ORGANIZING THE ENVIRONMENT A way to keep our community clean is not to

litter, and to pick up littered trash we see thrown on the streets. If we litter, our world will be so stinky, and absolutely NO ONE would want to live on the planet Earth, and every single human might move to Mars!

RECYCLING ELECTRONIC WASTE It’s also important to recycle electronic

waste. As an example, if you have a worn-out laptop, you can either use the parts to make a new electronic device, or you can also send it to a relative or a poor person needs one.

HOW CAN WE HELP? We can help by practicing the four R’s

as an everyday job. Thank you!