What are known as resources?
Which are the three types of resources?
What is a reserve?
Give five examples of human-made resources.
What is resource conservation?
Answer the following questions in detail.
In what ways are exploitation of resources a threat to earth's life support sys
Mention the chief characteristics of resources.
How does technology help in the development of resources?
* Why is conservation of resources necessary?
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How are human needs satisfied by nature?
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Answer:
1.A resource is a source or supply from which a benefit is produced.
2.Resources are usually classified into three types, viz. natural, human made and human resources.
3.Reserves are subset of stock which are preserved for future generations
4.plastic, paper, soda, sheet metal, rubber and brass
5.Resource conservation means using the available resources carefully and giving them time to get renewed. Sustainable development means balancing our present needs of using resources without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Answer the following questions in detail.
1 . Exploitation of natural resources is important condition of the human existence.throughtout history human have manipulated natural resources to produce the material they needed to sustain growing human population.
2.Resources characteristics: Resources have three main characteristics namely 1) Utility, 2) Limited availability, 3) Potential for depletion or consumption. Scarcity is the fundamental economic problem of having humans who have unlimited wants and needs in a world of limited resources.
3.Technology is an important factor that an change substances into resources. ... It is their ideas, knowledge, inventions and discoveries that lead to the creation of more resources. Each discovery or invention leads to many others. The discovery of fire led to the practice of cooking and other processes
4.conservation of resources is essential because as using them recklessly may exhaust them and future generation have to compromise. some resources take time in their formation such as fossil fuel and using them recklessly is going to be harmful for the environment.
HOTS high order thinking skill
1.Nature has provides us with many useful things such as oxygen for breathing, wood for timber and firewood, food and fruits for food, controlling carbon dioxide thus reducing global warminng, holding soil thus preventing soil erosion, making the soil porous thus replenishing ground water and many more
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