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Natural Resources

Natural Resources: "materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain."

There are two types of natural resources: renewable resources and non-renewable resources. Renewable resources are the resources that can be used again and non-renewable resources are the resources that cannot be used again.

Some of the examples for the renewable resources are oxygen, fresh water, solar energy, timber, and biomass.

Some of the examples for the non-renewable resources are oil such as gasoline and diesel fuel, natural gas, coal, and uranium.

Some of the natural resources that we humans use the most are water, oil, natural gas, phosphorus, and, coal.

Natural resources can be found in Earth; especially we can find lots of natural resources in Canada. Although some natural resources cannot be found near cities or the towns, natural resources often come from faraway places before they end up in our city. 
Canada is the second largest country in the world and the fourth country of having the most natural resources in the world, which means Canada, has lots of natural resources.
Some of the natural resources can be found in Canada are iron ore, nickel, zinc, copper, gold, lead, rare earth elements, molybdenum, potash, diamonds, silver, fish, timber, wildlife, coal, petroleum, natural gas, and hydro-power. 

As Canadians have lots of natural resources, Canadians have much higher living standard than the other countries, which have fewer natural resources. Canadians use their natural resources for food, housing, comforts, and entertainment. Canadians demand for more resources. The demand for natural resources is very high, but availability is very low. It is because every natural resource is limited and as time passes, the population grow, and more population we have, the more resources we need.

Natural Resources Video

Blackman and Baumol, sue Anne Batey and William J."Natural Resources." LIBRARY ECONOMICS LIBERTY. <http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/NaturalResources.html>. 20 September, 2014.

"Countries of the World." worldatlas explore your world.... <http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/populations/ctyareal.htm>. 20 September, 2014.

"Nonrenewable." energy KIDS U.S. Energy information Administration. <http://www.eia.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=nonrenewable_home-basics>. 20 September, 2014.

"RBC Letter." RBC. <http://www.rbc.com/aboutus/letter/june1948.html>. 20 September, 2014.

"Renewable." energy KIDS U.S. Energy information Administration. <http://www.eia.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=renewable_home-basics>. 20 September, 2014.

"The Six natural resources most drained by our 7 billion people." theguardian. <http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2011/oct/31/six-natural-resources-population>. 20 September, 2014.

"THE WORLD FACTBOOK." CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.<https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2111.html> . 20 September, 2014.

"Top 10 Countries with Most natural Resources in the World." The Countries WWW.THECOUNTRIESOF.COM. <http://www.thecountriesof.com/top-10-countries-with-most-natural-resources-in-the-world/>. 20 September, 2014

"Learn Grade 3 - Science - Natural Resources." YouTube. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wiKrZY5GVw>. 20 September, 2014