Organize from most renewable to least renewable: soils, timber, fresh water, food...

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...crops, and biodiversity.? Many resources are renewable if we use them in moderation, but can become non-renewable if we overexploit them. Order the following resources on a continuum of renewability, from most renewable to least renewable: soils, timber, fresh water, food crops, and biodiversity. What factors influenced your decision? For each of these resources, what might constitute over exploitation, and what might constitute sustainable use?
 
Renewable - if you use them up (or destroy them) will they come back.


1. food crops - yearly
2. fresh water - yearly (except for aquifers)
3. timber 25 to 100 years or more
4. soils - 1,000 to 10,000 years
5. biodiversity - 100,000 to 1,000,000 years
 
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