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The Earth gives us special and important things
that w e need to help us live. We call these
things natural resources. Air, sunlight, water,
wood, and land are all natural resources.
People Need Natural Resources
Living things need clean air to Hurting Our Natural Resources
breathe and clean w ater to drink.
Plants need sunlight and land We shouldn’t hurt our natural resources
to grow, and w e need plants for because w e can ’t usually m ake more
food. When plants breathe, they of them . Smoke from cars and factories
clean the air around them . We use m akes the air dirty. If the air is dirty,
the w ood from plants and trees people can get sick and plants can ’t
to m ake a lot of things, like paper, grow. If w e cut down trees, w e should
so m e houses, and furniture. plant new ones.
Trash is very bad for our natural
resources. Som etim es people throw
trash into w ater but w e ca n ’t drink dirty
water, and plants can ’t grow near it.
Trash go es to places called landfills, and
it stays there forever. Som e landfills are
dirty and they smell bad. People can ’t
use that land, and farm ers can ’t grow
food on it.
