You can check your refund status after filing on the IRS website here. According to Internal Revenue statistics, approximately 77% of Americans get an income tax refund each year with an average refund value of $2,100.
Chapter 1: The global issue and differing perspectives. 1  Ocean resources include food, transportation, energy sources and a place to dispose of waste. 2  Fishing in the past was sustainable, but modern commercial fishing is not.
Natural resources are used as sources of raw materials to make goods and also to provide energy. Making goods and producing energy consumes large quantities of resources from the Earth. These resources are removed from the ground by mining. Mining includes digging ore out of the Earth which is refined to produce metals. It also includes drilling for liquids under the Earth.