Other Natural Resources of Pennsylvania

1. Other Natural Resources of Pennsylvania Lesson 3

2. 5 Themes of Geography • 1. Location – location of city or your community • 2. Place – where something is in relation to its surroundings ex. City in contrast to smaller communities • 3. Human-Environment Interaction – how people depend on the environment or change land • 4. Movement – connection between places and patterns of movement • 5. Region – ex. Tourist, political, business, rural, urban, suburban, or even school district

3. 5 Landform Regions of Pennsylvania

4. Vocabulary – 3 minutes to copy into your notes, leave spaces between words • Natural Resources • forest • loam • Fossil fuels • anthracite • bituminous • Natural gas • petroleum • Mineral resources • Human resources • Population density • census

5. Natural resources – raw materials that exist in a natural state and used to make other goods • Forest – a large growth of trees • Soils • Loam – soil made up of sand, silt, clay, and organic matter • Fossil Fuels – resources formed millions of years ago from the remains of plants and animals under the earth’s crust • Anthracite coal – HARD coal • Bituminous coal - SOFT coal • Natural Gas – Gas coming from the earth’s crust • Petroleum – (oil) flammable liquid, drilled from the ground, , refined into gasoline and fuel oils • Mineral Resources – any useful substance found in the earth that has not been formed by plant and animal remains • Human Resources – utilizing the talents of the states population • Census – government count of the population – 10 years • Population Density – average number of people per square mile