--- title: Natural resources and why we must save them — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Natural resources and why we must save them», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Natural resources are the things people take from nature to live: water, air, soil, wood, fish, sunlight, wind, and things dug f --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Natural resources and why we must save… # Natural resources and why we must save them Lesson 47 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/47-natural-resources/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/0/) — Natural resources are the things people take from nature to live: water, air, soil, wood, fish, sunlight, wind, and things dug from the ground such as coal, oil, gas, iron ore and salt. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/1/) — Some resources renew themselves: sunlight and wind come every day, and a forest can grow back if people plant trees and cut no more than grows. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/2/) — Others do not renew in a human lifetime: coal, oil and gas formed from plants and tiny sea creatures buried for millions of years, so once we burn them they are gone for good. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/3/) — Burning coal, oil and gas also puts smoke and carbon dioxide into the air, which dirties the air we breathe and warms the climate of the whole planet. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/4/) — So we save resources: we turn off lights and taps, sort rubbish so that paper, glass, metal and plastic can be recycled, use things again, and get energy from the Sun and wind; one tonne of recycled paper saves many trees from being cut. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/5/) — Natural resources are materials and energy that people take from nature. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/6/) — Renewable resources, such as sunlight, wind and flowing water, are not used up. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/7/) — Forests, fish and soil renew themselves only if people do not use them faster than they grow back. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/8/) — Rich farm soil, like that of the American Great Plains, takes thousands of years to form, and wind and rain can carry it away quickly from bare fields. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/9/) — Coal, oil and natural gas are fossil fuels formed over millions of years from ancient plants and animals. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/10/) — Fossil fuels are non-renewable: once burned they cannot be made again in a human lifetime. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/11/) — Burning fossil fuels pollutes the air and adds carbon dioxide, which warms the Earth's climate. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/13/) — Recycling means making new things from used materials such as paper, glass, metal and plastic. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/14/) — Only a tiny part of all the water on Earth is fresh water that people can drink. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/15/) — Solar panels make electricity from sunlight and wind turbines make it from the wind. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/16/) — Reduce, reuse, recycle: use less, use things again, and turn waste into new materials. - ← previous: [Countries, peoples and languages of the world](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/) - next →: [Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)