Question

What natural resources are renewable and nonrenewable?

Answer 1

Answer:

Renewable resources are the resources which are used by the mankind from the starting of human life. Our ancestors used wood for cooking and heating purposes, wind energy for transportation, solar energy for lighting purposes, etc.

But after the discovery of the Non-renewable resources like fossil fuels, coal, etc the working of the entire mankind has seen a drastic change and it resulted in rapid industrialization. Use of fossil fuels has become a compulsion in our life which is polluting the earth very badly.

RENEWABLE RESOURCES

The resources which are being continuously consumed by man but are renewed by nature constantly are called as Renewable Resources. These resources are inexhaustible because they cannot be exhausted permanently. Renewable resources are also called as ‘Non-Conventional’ sources of energy.

Examples

⦿ Solar energy

⦿ Wind energy

⦿ Tidal energy

⦿ Hydro power

⦿ Geothermal energy

⦿ Biofuels

NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES

The resources which are non-renewable are called as Non-Renewable sources. The Non-Renewable resources do not replenish and cannot be renewed. It took thousands of years of time to form the non-renewable resources which exist inside the earth in the form of coal, fossil fuels, etc.

Examples

⦿ Coal

⦿ Mineral Ores

⦿ Metal Ores

⦿ Crude Oil

⦿ Nuclear Energy