Memory Game Resources VocabularyOnline version Match the word with the definition by Jennifer Gerber natural hazard renewable resource an earth process that threatens to harm people and property materials found in nature that people and other living things use waste products that damage an ecosystem nonrenewable resource natural resource resource pollution 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.