Summary and Vocabulary

Summary

  • Reducing waste, as well as reusing and recycling resources, can help save natural resources
  • Consumers can influence companies to become more environmentally friendly.

Vocabulary

  • natural resource: Something supplied by nature that helps support life.
  • nonrenewable resource: Natural resource that is used up faster than it can be made by nature.
  • recycle: Processing used materials in order to make them suitable for other uses.
  • reduce: Decreasing the amount of waste we create.
  • reuse: Using the same item again for the same function and also using an item again for a new function.

 

CK-12 Foundation, Life Science. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/