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= China's Natural Resources =

China has many interesting natural resources. China’s common natural resource is minerals. The major minerals are iron ore, coal, steel, and oil. Oil in China is the tenth largest producer in the world. Minor minerals in China are copper, aluminum, zinc, lead, natural gases, and more.

The uses of China’s natural resources are amazing. Coal is mainly used for fuel different types of machinery for industries in China. Bamboo is used to make food, art, and chopsticks. Copper is used for the big industry in technology. Oil is used to create gas for all the cars in China.

Pollution to China’s natural resources is horrible. China is the largest release the most carbon dioxide. Because of this pollution China’s air quality is poor. In China 300 million people drink contaminated water.

China and the United States have a lot of natural resources in common. The both have oil, farmland, coastline, coal, copper, lead, and more. China has hydropower potential, and rare earth elements. United States has liquefied petroleum gases, and natural gas liquids.

It is now clear how China has many natural resources. China also is polluting their resources. China also exports many of their natural resources. You never know your sunscreen (which is made of China’s natural resource zinc) might have come from China.

=Minerals= ====China's most major natural resources are oil, iron ore, coal and steel. Major industries mine these major and minor natural resources in China. China's minor natural resources are copper, aluminum, zinc, mercury, tin, lead,clay, quartz, sulpher, salt, gypsum, and more.==== ===="China Natural Resources - China Information." //China Tours | China Travel Agency | China Tour Packages//. Web. 09 Mar. 2011. [].====

=﻿Amounts per Year=

Metric Tons=MT

 * ====Natural Resource ==== || ====Amount ==== ||
 * ====Coal ==== || ====2.6 Billion MT ==== ||
 * ====Iron ore ==== || ====17 Million MT ==== ||
 * ====Steel ==== || ====568 Million MT ==== ||
 * ====Oil ==== || ====189 Million MT ==== ||

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===="China to Produce 189 Mln Tonnes Crude Oil This Year -- China.org.cn." //China.org.cn - China News, Weather, Business, Travel & Language Courses//. Web. 09 Mar. 2011. [].==== ===="Aroon, P.j. "Quiz: How Much Steel Did the World's No. 2 Country Produce? | FP Passport." //FP Passport | FOREIGN POLICY//. Web. 09 Mar. 2011. [].====

=Bamboo=

"Bamboo." //Globio | Where Kids Discover the World | Portland, OR//. Web. 10 Mar. 2011. [].
"Growing Habits of Bamboo." //Bamboo Plants | Lewis Bamboo//. Web. 11 Mar. 2011. [].

=Vocabulary=

Tonne(s) also means metic ton(s).

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A unit of surface, or land, measure equal to 100 acres, or 10,000 square meters: equivalent to 2.471 acres. Abbreviation // : // ha

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Crude Oil ( kr [[image:http://sp.dictionary.com/dictstatic/dictionary/graphics/ahsd/gif/oomacr.gif width="14" height="15" align="bottom"]] d)-
==== Crude oil is a mixture of comparatively volatile liquid hydrocarbons (compounds composed mainly of hydrogen and carbon with some nitrogen, sulfur, and oxygen) that occurs in the Earth's crust and is extracted for use as fuel and various petroleum products. Because crude oil is a mixture of widely varying constituents and proportions, its physical properties also vary widely. For example, the specific gravity, as measured on the American Petroleum Institute (API) gravity scale, may range from 10 to more than 60 and the color from colorless to black. Crude oil occurs underground, at various pressures from tens to hundreds of kilograms per square centimeter, depending on the depth. Because of the pressure, it contains considerable natural gas in solution. The oil underground is much more fluid than it is on the surface, because the elevated temperatures there (on the average, the temperature rises 1 C for every 33 m [108 feet] of depth) decrease the viscosity. ====

"Crude Oil | Define Crude Oil at Dictionary.com." //Dictionary.com | Free Online Dictionary for English Definitions//. Web. 12 Mar. 2011.<[]>.
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Iron ore is a(n) ore from which iron can be extracted.

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Hydropower means hydroelectric power.

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State Standards

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">D.8.7 Identify the location of concentrations of selected natural resources and describe how their acquisition and distribution generates trade and shapes economic patterns.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">A.8.7 Describe the movement of people, ideas, diseases, and products throughout the world. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">

=Other Easy Bibs= ===="United States Geography - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements,Population, Social Statistics, Political System." //Photius Coutsoukis; Photius; Photios; Fotis Koutsoukis - Sustained by Working Capital in the World//. Web. 10 Mar. 2011. [].====