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 include water, fuel, soil, land and air. Depletion of these resources produces competition among living organisms for the remaining portions, and diminishes the quality of available resources. Of the life-sustaining natural resources for humans, plants and animals, water ranks high on the list of the most basic and important elements.