Exercises
1. Answer the following questions.
(i) Why are resources distributed unequally over the earth?
(ii) What is resource conservation? ba
diii) Why are human resources important?
(iv) What is sustainable development?
Answers
Answer:
1) 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.
2) Resource conservation means the reduction in the use of water, energy, and raw materials. ... It is the management of the human use of natural resources to provide the maximum benefit to current generations while maintaining capacity to meet the needs of future generations.
3) Human resources are important because nation's development is mostly depended upon human resources which include human skill, technology, thinking and knowledge, that leads to a nation's power. Only human skill and technology change the natural substances into a valuable resource.
4) Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.