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This document discusses different types of resources. It defines resources as aspects of the environment that satisfy human needs and wants. Resources are classified based on their origin, renewability, development and use, and distribution. Natural resources come from nature and include biotic resources like plants and animals, and abiotic resources like soil and minerals. Resources are also classified as renewable like solar and wind, and non-renewable like coal and oil. Human resources refer to people, while human-made resources are created from natural resources through human effort, like roads and machinery. The document stresses the importance of conserving resources through sustainable use to balance current and future needs.

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Resources Class 8

This document discusses different types of resources. It defines resources as aspects of the environment that satisfy human needs and wants. Resources are classified based on their origin, renewability, development and use, and distribution. Natural resources come from nature and include biotic resources like plants and animals, and abiotic resources like soil and minerals. Resources are also classified as renewable like solar and wind, and non-renewable like coal and oil. Human resources refer to people, while human-made resources are created from natural resources through human effort, like roads and machinery. The document stresses the importance of conserving resources through sustainable use to balance current and future needs.

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Geography

Chapter -1

Resources .

Resources
Resources are those aspects of our environment which can satisfy our needs and wants

. • All resources have some value. Value means worth. Some resources have economic value and
some do not, but both are important and satisfy human needs.
• Some resources can become economically valuable with time.
• Time and technology are the important factors that change substances into resources.
• Each discovery or invention leads to many others.

Classification of Resources

● Content

● Exhaustibility and Durability

● Distribution

● Development and Use

● Origin

Types of Resources:

i) Resources are categorized into natural, human made and human.


ii) Natural resources are those resources that are drawn from nature and are used without much
modification-air, water, soils, minerals are the natural resources.
iii) Natural resources are classified into different groups depending upon their level of development
and use, origin, renewability and distribution.
iv) On the basis of level of their development and use, resources can be classified into actual and
potential resources.
v) Potential resources are those resources whose entire quantity may not be known and these are
not being used at present and could be used in the future.
vi) On the basis of origin, the natural resources can be biotic or abiotic.
vii) Biotic resources include all the living things like plants and animals.
viii)Abiotic resources are non-living things like soil, rock and minerals.

Natural Resources:

i) On the basis of renewability, natural resources can be categorized into renewable and non-
renewable resources.
ii) Renewable resources are those which can get renewed or replenished quickly, such as solar and
wind energy.
iii) Non-renewable resources are those which have a limited stock. Once the stocks are exhausted it
may take thousands of years to be renewed or replenished, such as coal, petroleum and natural
gas.
(iv) Ubiquitous resources are found everywhere on the earth. Land, water, air are ubiquitous
resources.
v) Localized resources are found only in certain places, like copper and iron ore.
.

Human Made Resources:

(i) The resources which are created from the natural resources by the human resources by the
human beings to produce useful products are known as Human made resources. Like roads,
machinery, vehicles, etc.
(ii)Technology is also a human made resources.

Human Resources:

(i) Human resources refers to the number and abilities of the people. People can make the best use
of nature to create more resources when they have the knowledge, skill and the technology. People
are human resources.
(ii) Human resources development refers the improving the quality of people’s skill so that they are
able to create more resources.

Conserving Resources:

(i) Conservation of resources refers to using natural resources carefully so that they could be
renewed and continue to be used in future.
ii) Sustainable use of resources refers to carefully utilizing resources and balancing the need to use
resources and also conserve them for the future generation.

.Sustainable Development

Sustainable development maintains a balance between the resource usage and conservation which
is essential for the survival of man on the earth.

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