Memory Game Resources VocabularyOnline version Match the word with the definition by Jennifer Gerber natural resource materials found in nature that people and other living things use an earth process that threatens to harm people and property renewable resource nonrenewable resource pollution waste products that damage an ecosystem resource natural hazard any material that can be used to satisfy a need a resource that can be replaced within a reasonable amount of time. a resource that once used cannot be replaced in a reasonable amount of time.