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The document defines different types of resources including natural, human, and human-made resources. Natural resources are categorized as renewable or non-renewable. Resources can become more valuable over time through advances in technology and discovery of new uses. Conservation of resources is important to balance use with sustainability for the future.

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The document defines different types of resources including natural, human, and human-made resources. Natural resources are categorized as renewable or non-renewable. Resources can become more valuable over time through advances in technology and discovery of new uses. Conservation of resources is important to balance use with sustainability for the future.

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• Resource: Anything that can be used to satisfy a need.

• utility/usability gives a resource value,


• Value means worth.
• Time and technology are two important factors that can change
substances into resources.
• Resources can become economically valuable with time
• Time allows for the discovery of new uses and applications for
substances. As technology advances, it enables us to extract,
process, and utilize these substances more efficiently, turning
them into valuable resources.
• Types of resources:

-NATURAL RESOURCES:
Resources that are drawn from Nature and used without much
modification are called natural resources.
Eg: oxygen, water, soil and minerals.

Natural resources are categorised into:


(i) renewable resources:
1. Get renewed/replenished quickly
2. Unlimited and not affected by human activities.
3. Yet careless use of certain renewable resources like water,
soil and forest can affect their stock.
4. Eg: solar energy, wind energy, tide
(ii) Non-renewable resources:
1. Have limited stock
2. Once the stocks are exhausted it may take thousands of years to
be renewed or replenished. As this period is much more than
human life spans, such resources are non-renewable.
3. Eg: coal, petroleum, natural gas.

➢ 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.
-HUMAN MADE RESOURCES: Sometimes, natural substances
become resources only when their original form has been
changed.
Eg: roads, machinery, buildings

-HUMAN RESOURCES: People can make the best use of nature to create
more resources when they have the knowledge, skill and the technology
to do so. This is why human beings are a special resource. People are
human resources.
➢ Factors that help in making people a valuable resource: education
and health
➢ Improving the quality of people’s skills so that they are able to
create more resources is known as human resource
development.
➢ Human Resource refers to the number (quantity) and abilities
(mental and physical) of the people.
➢ Though, there are differing views regarding treatment of humans
as a resource, one cannot deny the fact that it is the skills of
human that help in transferring the physical material into a
valuable resource.

CONSERVING RESOURCES
• Using resources carefully and giving them time to get renewed is
called RESOURCE CONSERVATION.
• If we are not careful then even renewable resources can become
very scarce and the non renewable ones can get exhausted.
• Ways to conserve:
1. Reducing consumption
2. Reusing
3. Recycling
4. Make packets and shopping bags out of paper
5. Not wasting paper
6. Reduce electricity wastage/ turn off lights
• SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Balancing the need to use
resources and also conserve them for the future.
• PRINCIPLES:
1. Respect and care for all forms of life
2. Improve the quality of human life
3. Conserve the earth’s vitality and diversity
4. Minimise the depletion of natural resources
5. Change personal attitude and practices towards the environment
6. Enable communities to care for their own environment

• DUTIES:
1. All uses of renewable substances are sustainable
2. The diversity of life on the earth is conserved
3. The damage to natural environment system is
minimised.
GLOSSARY
1. PATENT: the exclusive right over any idea or invention
2. TECHNOLOGY: the application of latest knowledge and skill
in doing or making things
3. STOCK OF RESOURCE: amount of resources available for
use.

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