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.
A natural resource is anything that people can use which comes from nature. People do not make natural resources, but gather them from the earth. Examples of natural resources are air, water, wood, oil, wind energy, iron, and coal. Refined oil and hydro-electric energy are not natural resources because people make them.