1. What are resources? What is their value?
2. Explain why resources are distributed unequally over the world?
3. What are natural resources? How are they important?
4. How is classification of resources based on origin?
Answers
Answer:
1. Resources are anything that has utility and adds value to your life. Air, water, food, plants, animals, minerals, metals, and everything else that exists in nature and has utility to mankind is a 'Resource'. The value of each such resource depends on its utility and other factors.
2. The distribution of natural resources depends upon many physical factors like land, climate and altitude. The distribution of resources is unequal because these factors differ from place to place on this earth. Answer: Earth has different topography, climate and altitude at different places.
3. Natural resources are used to make food, fuel and raw materials for the production of goods. All of the food that people eat comes from plants or animals. Natural resources such as coal, natural gas and oil provide heat, light and power.
4. Natural resources are derived from the environment. ... Resources can be categorized on the basis of origin: Abiotic resources comprise non-living things (e.g., land, water, air and minerals such as gold, iron, copper, silver). Biotic resources are obtained from the biosphere.
Answer:
1. resources are anything that has utility and adds value to your life.
Air, water, food, plants, animals, minerals, metals and everything else that exists in nature and has utility to mankind is a 'Resource'
2. cause it depends upon many physical factors like climate, land and altitude and so the resources are distributed unequally because these factors differ from place to place on this earth.
3. Animals, birds, fish and plants are natural resources as well. Natural resources are used to make food, fuel and raw materials for the production of goods. The foods we consume comes from plants or animals. Natural Resources like natural gas and oil provides heat, light and power.
4. natural resources are derived from the environment. it can be categorized on the basis of origin . Abiotic comprises non-living things such as land, water, air, minerals etc....
and Biotic resources are obtained from the biosphere that is living things such as Bird, animals, insects etc...