Facts about Life as a Soldier During the Civil War. 1  During the fall, they would work on their winter camp where they would stay at one place for the long winter months. 2  Soldiers were drafted, but the rich could make a payment if they wanted to avoid fighting. 3  If life as a soldier was bad, life as a prisoner was worse.
A picture of the Udachnaya pipe, an open-pit diamond mine in Siberia. An example of a non-renewable natural resource. Natural resources are resources that exist without actions of humankind. This includes all valued characteristics such as magnetic, gravitational, and electrical properties and forces.
Natural Resources. Natural resources are useful raw materials that we get from the Earth. They occur naturally, which means that humans cannot make natural resources. Instead, we use and modify natural resources in ways that are beneficial to us. The materials used in human-made objects are natural resources. Some examples of natural resources and the ways we can use them are: