what are the broad catogries of natural resources
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Mainly, there are eleven different types of natural resources - each one with several subtypes. They are:-
Geological resources: Include resources like minerals, oils, gas, rocks, mountains, and valleys.
Hydro geological resources: Include all the underground water, surface water (sea, river, stream, ponds) and ice.
Atmospheric resources: Include air, its temperature, rainfall and its pattern, sunlight.
Edaphic resources: Include different types of soils, their fertility and vast biological wealth in them.
Forest resource: Include all types of forests and other naturally grown plant sources.
Crop resources: include all cultivated crops and their potentialities.
Marine and aquatic resources: Include plants, animals and mineral resources in marine and other aquatic ecosystem of world.
Animal resources: Include vast animal resource that include all domesticated animals and animals that grow friendly with human society.
Wildlife resources: Include all types of wild animals including those, which are not grown friendly with human society.
Human resource: Include different types of human population, their distribution and potentialities.
Microbial resource: Include different types of microbes, which are useful to mankind in many ways.
Air, water and soil.
Biological resources - plants and animals.
Raw materials (like minerals)
Space and land.
Wind