1.Natural Resources Of The Earth.

Question 1

What are natural resources?

Answer 1

Things found in the natural environment required for the existence of man and his activities

Question 2

List some examples of natural resources

Answer 2

• Rocks
• Minerals
• Soil
• Water
• Air
• Sunlight
• Vegetation
• Wildlife

Question 3

What are examples of resources obtained with effort?

Answer 3

• Mineral resources
• Irrigated water
• Pipe borne water
• Planted forests
• Fertilized soil

Question 4

What are natural resources obtained without an effort?

Answer 4

Soil, Air,Water, Sunlight,Forests and vegetation

Question 5

There is a categorisation of natural resources in the following manner as well.

1.Exhaustible resources
2. Non exhaustible resources
3.renewable resources

Give examples for those categories separately.

Answer 5

**1.Exhaustible resources **
-Fossil fuel
-Forests
-Fertile soil
-Rocks
-metal minerals(iron ore, copper,gold)
-Non metal minerals (coal,gems, silica)
**2. Non exhaustible resources **
-Water
-Sunlight
-Air
**3.renewable resources **
-Forests
-Soil
-Fish
-Wild life

Question 6

Classify natural resources as living and non living resources

Answer 6

Living Resources

Plant and animal resources in the biosphere.

(Biotic components)

(Forests, animal resources, aquatic resources).

Non-Living Resources

Water in the Hydrosphere, gases in the Atmosphere, minerals and soil in the Lithosphere, soil.

(Abiotic components)

(Water, soil, minerals, wind, tides).