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The Earth’s Natural Resources  
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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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