Natural Resources + Environmental Resource Management Flashcards
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Natural Resource
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A source/supply that occurs in nature without human action
2
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Basis of Origin
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Biotic - Organic resources
Abiotic - Geological processes
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Stages of resource development
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Actual - surveyed and exploited
Reserve - surveyed, can be exploited
Stock - Surveyed but inaccessible
Potential - Could be there, haven’t checked
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Renewability
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Speed of replenishment
Renewable: form as fast or faster than used
Non-renewable: form slowly or not naturally
- can be formed slowly over geological times scales
- can be produced once and never replenished
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