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Lesson 9 of 84 · Geography

30 XP🗺️ Atlas Outpost

Natural Resources and How We Use Them

🌍Mission Brief #9

Natural resources — water, minerals, soil, forests, fossil fuels — are essential for energy, food, and manufacturing.

🎯 Your mission

Find it on the map. Then find what makes it special.

⚡ The twist

Borders move. Mountains don't.

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Mind = Blown

🤯 There's a country (Vatican City) that's smaller than most golf courses.

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Then & Now

🌍 Where things are still decides who gets what.

Natural resources — water, minerals, soil, forests, fossil fuels — are essential for energy, food, and manufacturing. Sustainable management is a major global challenge.

Key Facts

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Geography affects how people live.

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Earth has seven continents.

3

There are five major oceans.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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Which is the largest ocean?

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Why this still matters

Every label on the food in your kitchen says where it traveled from.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Pull up a map and find a country you've never heard of. Look up one fact.

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For the dinner table

If you could live anywhere on Earth, where would it be — and why?

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