Natural Resources & Hazards

4.5 Understand natural resources and natural hazards.

a. Demonstrate knowledge of renewable and nonrenewable energy resources (e.g., fossil fuels, nuclear fuels, solar, biomass).

b. Demonstrate knowledge of Earth's materials as resources (e.g., rocks, minerals, soils, water) that have a global distribution affected by past and current geological processes. c. Analyze extraction and recycling processes in relation to energy, cost, and demand. d. Demonstrate knowledge of sustainable uses of resources with respect to utility, cost, and demand.

e. Demonstrate knowledge of the effects of natural hazards (e.g., earthquakes, landslides, floods) on natural and human-made habitats.

f. Demonstrate knowledge of how the availability of natural resources and the existence of natural hazards and other geologic events have influenced the development of human society.