Resources: Endowment of natures
Very Short Answer Type Question
1. What are non-renewable resources?
Answer: Non-renewable resources are those which have a limited stock.
3. What do you mean by stock of resource?
Answer: Stock of resource is the number of resources available for use.
4. What is utility?
Answer: If a substance can be used in any way, it is said to have a utility.
5. How are resources classified based on their origin?
Answer: Based on the origin, resources can be classified as abiotic or biotic.
6. What makes a substance a resource?
Or How does something become a resource?
Answer: Utility or usability is what makes an object or substance a resource.
8. What are renewable resources?
Answer: Renewable resources are those which get renewed or replenished quickly.
10. How are resources classified broadly?
Answer: Resources are generally classified into natural, human made and human.
11. What is resource conservation?
Answer: Using resources carefully and giving them time to get renewed is called resource
conservation.
12. What is technology?
Answer: Technology is the application of latest knowledge and skill in doing or making
things.
13. Name some natural resources.
Answer: The air we breathe, the water in our rivers and lakes, the soils, minerals are all
natural resources.
14. What are natural resources?
Answer: Resources that are drawn from nature and used without much modification are
called natural resources.
15. What is sustainable development?
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Answer: Balancing the need to use resources and also conserve them for the future is called
sustainable development.
Short Type Answer Questions
1. What is a Human Resource?
Answer: Human Resource refers to the number (quantity) and abilities (mental and physical)
of the people.
2. How natural resources are classified?
Answer: Natural resources are classified into different groups depending upon their level of
development and use; origin; stock and distribution.
3. How are resources classified according to their development and use?
Answer: On the basis of their development and use resources can be classified into two
groups, actual resources and potential resources.
4. What is human resource development?
Answer: Improving the quality of people’s skills so that they are able to create more
resources is known as human resource development.
5. What are the physical factors that affect the distribution of natural resources?
Answer: The distribution of natural resources depends upon number of physical factors like
terrain, climate and altitude.
6. Why are human resources important?
Answer: Human resources are important because people can make the best use of nature to
create more resources by applying knowledge, skill and the technology.
7. Why are people considered as a resource?
Answer: People are considered a resource because people can make the best use of nature
to create more resources when they have the knowledge, skill and the technology to do so.
8. Why are resources distributed unequally over the earth?
Answer: The distribution of natural resources depends upon number of physical factors like
terrain, climate and altitude. The distribution of resources is unequal because these factors
differ so much over the earth.
9. How potential resource can be actual resource?
Answer: High speed winds were a potential resource two hundred years ago. Today they are
an actual resource and wind farms generate energy using windmills like in Netherlands,
some in Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu and on the Gujarat coast.
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10. Mention how stock of certain renewable resources may get affected by overuse.
Or
Why certain renewable resources need to be used judiciously?
Answer: Careless use of certain renewable resources like water, soil and forest can affect
their stock. Water seems to be an unlimited renewable resource. But shortage and drying up
of natural water sources is a major problem in many parts of the world today.
Long Type Answer Questions
1. Differentiate between abiotic and biotic resources.
Answer:
Abiotic Resources Biotic Resources
Abiotic resources are non-living. Biotic resources are living.
Soils, rocks and minerals are abiotic
Plants and animals are biotic resources.
resources.
3. Mention our duty to maintain and preserve the life support system that nature provides
us.
Answer: The future of our planet and its people is linked with our ability to maintain and
preserve the life support system that nature provides. Therefore, it is our duty to ensure
that.
all uses of renewable resources are sustainable
the diversity of life on the earth is conserved
the damage to natural environmental system is minimised.
4. What is the significance of time and technology in making a substance a resource?
Answer: Time and technology are two important factors that can change substances into
resources. Each discovery or invention leads to many others. The discovery of fire led to the
practice of cooking and other processes while the invention of the wheel ultimately resulted
in development of newer modes of transport. The technology to create hydroelectricity has
turned energy in fast flowing water into an important resource.
5. Write the basic principles of sustainable development.
Answer: Some Principles of Sustainable Development
Respect and care for all forms of life.
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Improve the quality of human life.
Conserve the earth’s vitality and diversity.
Minimise the depletion of natural resources.
Change personal attitude and practices toward the environment.
Enable communities to care for their own environment.
6. Differentiate between natural resources and human made resources.
Answer:
Natural Resources Human Made Resources
1. Resources that are drawn from nature 1. People use natural resources to make buildings,
and used without much modification are bridges, roads, machinery and vehicles, which are
called natural resources. known as human made resources.
2. Many of these resources are free gifts of 2. Sometimes, natural substances become resources
nature and can be used directly. only when their original form has been changed.
3. The air we breathe, the water in our
rivers and lakes, the soils, minerals are all 3. Technology is a human made resource.
natural resources.
Short answers;
1. What are mad-made resources?
Man made resources are buildings, monuments, technology, hybrid variety of seed,
paintings, institutions etc.
2. When do we call an object or thing a resource?
When it is useful and has s value.
3. Give two examples of abiotic resources.
Land, air, water, rocks etc.
4. Why is resource conservation essential?
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To prevent misuse, overexploitation and depletion, the conservation of resources is
necessary.
5. What is sustainable development?
The development of resources without damaging the environment and
compromising with the needs of the present for the future generation is called
sustainable development.
1. Human resource is the most valuable resource of the present time. Elaborate.(hots)
2. Which aspect of human resource is important in resource development?
People can make the best use of nature to create more resources when they have
the knowledge, skill and the technology to do so. That is why human beings are a
valuable resource.
People are human resources:
Education and health help in making people a valuable resource. Improving the
quality of people’s skills so that they are able to create more resources is known as
human resource development.
5. Explain the need for conservation of resources and mention a few steps to conserve
resources.
The rapid growth of population, urbanization and industrialization has increased the
demand and consumption of resources. This led to the overexploitation and depletion of
the resources.
To prevent misuse, overexploitation and depletion, the conservation of resources is
necessary.
A few steps to conserve resources are;
1. Conserve the earth’s diverse resources.
2. Reduce depletion of natural resources.
3. Respect and care for all forms of life.
4. Adopt a proper attitude towards the environment.
