Question

make a list of actual and potential resource.

Answer 1

Actual: a resource that is ripe for the plucking, such as an easilt extracted oil, or a shallow seam of coal, a forest ready to be harvested.

Potential: a resource that will require work in order to make it commercialy viable, or that is out of reach using modern technologys. eg. oil trapped in rock poeres that can not be sucked out, a seam of coal to deep and narrow , of a piece of land that you might grow some trees on.