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The Earth’s Natural Resources
JUST THE FACTS 
Tags: Earth, Earth's Resources, Earth Science
The following is a brief list of the earth’s primary natural resources.
| | Earth's crust contains large deposits of fossil fuels: (coal, petroleum, natural gas, methane clathrate). |
| | These deposits are used by humans both for energy production and as feedstock for chemical production. |
| | Mineral ore bodies have been formed in Earth's crust by the action of erosion and plate tectonics. |
| | These bodies form concentrated sources for many metals and other useful elements. |
| | Earth's biosphere produces many useful biological products, including (but far from limited to) food, wood, pharmaceuticals, oxygen, and the recycling of many organic wastes. |
| | The land-based ecosystem depends upon topsoil and fresh water, and the oceanic ecosystem depends upon dissolved nutrients washed down from the land. |
| | Some of these resources, such as mineral fuels, are difficult to replenish on a short time scale, called non-renewable resources. |
| | The exploitation of non-renewable resources by human civilization has become a subject of significant controversy in modern environmentalism movements. |
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