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 are things that occur naturally, and that are useful to us. They include fuels such as oil and natural gas, and materials such as iron ore, and timber. Renewable resources are those that are replaced in nature at a rate close to their rate of use e.g. plants, forests and animals. Care is needed to make sure resources are used sustainably and not over- harvested.