Are renewable and non-renewable alike

Answer 1

No, they are really quite different.

1. Renewable means something is still there after it has been used, like sunshine or wind.
2. Renewable also means that the something will come back, like water, which we use, and make dirty, and it finds its way back into rivers and oceans and then up into clouds, clean again, to fall into our dams.
3. Also renewable are things that will grow quickly, like plantation timber, or food crops, which we consume, but we can grow them again quickly enough for us.

Non-renewable is material that is used up and finished, and won't come back or regrow, or re-make itself.

1. Coal and other fossil fuels like oil and natural gas were all formed millions of years ago and will take more millions of years to produce again.
2. Gold, Silver, diamonds and other minerals also take millions of years to be laid down.

Answer 2

A renewable source just keeps renewing itself, so it pretty much never dies. A non renewable source is opposite.

Here is a more precise answer:

A renewable resource can be used over and over again. A nonrenewable resource cannot be recreated once it is used. The two best examples are water and oil. Water can be used over and over again, when it rains the cycle starts over again. When we pump oil out of the ground and burn it we have no way of continually reusing that same oil.

Answer 3

They both create energy and have negative and positine effects.

Answer 4

renewable resources are something that is readily accessable, such as water. A non-renewable resource is something that takes years to remake, such as coal or oil.

Answer 5

the similarities of renewable and non renewable resources are that the are both resources and both have to do with the environment

Answer 6

they are Natural Resources

Answer 7

Oil, Minerals and rocks, and coal =)

Answer 8

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