Alabama Landscapes

Natural Resources

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UPEnergyWaterNon-metallic MineralsTimber

 

 

A natural resource is any useful material from the natural environment

Natural Resources can be described as:
     Perpetual: resource is unlimited
     Renewable: resource will regenerate on the time scale of a human life
     Non-Renewable: new deposits of the resource will not form on the time scale of a human life
 

Subsequent sections will look at four of Alabama's non-renewable and renewable resources

    Energy

    Timber

    Water

   Non-metallic Minerals

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