Title: Identify the importance of natural resource management.
Course: Agriscience and Technology (18001-18A) > Section: Exploring Natural Resources

Identification includes

- defining natural resource, extraction, depletion, protection, and management of natural resources
- describing the major categories of natural resources (e.g., soil, water, air, minerals) in Virginia and the United States.
- explaining renewable and nonrenewable natural resources
- explaining what makes something a natural resource, biotic and abiotic.

Process/Skill Questions:

- Why are natural resources a valuable part of life?
- What are some things one could do to conserve natural resources?
- What is the difference between conservation and preservation of natural resources?
- What local, state, and federal agencies are involved in conservation?
- What are biotic and abiotic natural resources?
- What are some careers related to natural resource management?