Describe how humans rely on the Earth's resources to provide basic needs such as warmth, shelter, food, and transport.
Explain how natural resources, supplemented by agriculture, provide essential goods like food, timber, clothing, and fuels.
Understand that finite resources from the Earth, oceans, and atmosphere are processed to provide energy and synthetic materials.
Describe the crucial role of chemistry in improving agricultural and industrial processes to develop new products and support sustainable development.
Define sustainable development as development that meets the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
State examples of natural products that are commonly supplemented or replaced by agricultural and synthetic products.
Distinguish between finite and renewable resources when provided with appropriate contextual information.
Extract and interpret relevant information regarding resource usage from charts, graphs, and tables.
Use orders of magnitude to effectively evaluate and compare the significance of data sets related to resource consumption.
