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NCERT Class 8 Geography Chapter 1: Resources

NCERT Class 8 Geography

Chapter 1: Resources

Resource?

  • Utility or usability – water, vegetable, textbook etc.
  • Use gives it Value (Worth)
  • Value – Economic, Aesthetic

  • Discovery of fire Cooking
  • Discovery of Wheel Transportation
  • Convert Water to Electricity (HEP)

Types of Resources

  • Natural Resources – From Nature with much modification
  • Human Made Resources – Technology, Bridges, Roads, Machinery
  • Human Resources – People (Knowledge, Skill) – Quantity & Ability
  • HRD: Improving quality of people՚s skill

Natural Resource – Based on Development

  • Actual Resource – Quantity is Known (Ruhr in Germany for coal)
  • Potential Resource – Entire quantity not known (Uranium in Ladakh) , in past it was windmills (now in Netherlands, Gujarat & Tamil Nadu Coast)

Natural Resource – Based on Origin

  • Biotic Resource – Living – Plants and Animals
  • Abiotic Resource – Non-Living – Soils, Rocks and Minerals

Natural Resource – Based on Distribution

  • Localized Resource – Copper, Iron
  • Ubiquitous Resource – Air, Water

Natural Resources Classification

  • Renewable Resources – Can be renewed & replenished quickly
  • Non-Renewable Resources – Limited stock & gets exhausted – Coal
  • Stock of Resource – Amount of resource Available for Use
  • Distribution depends on terrain, climate, altitude etc.

Resource Conservation

  • Using resources carefully & giving them time to get renewed
  • Sustainable Development – For future generations
  • All uses of renewable resources are sustainable
  • Diversity of life on the earth is conserved
  • Damage to natural environmental system is minimized

Principles of Sustainable Development

  • Respect and care for all forms of life
  • Improve the quality of human life
  • Conserve the earth՚s vitality and diversity
  • Minimize the depletion of natural resources
  • Change personal attitude and practices toward the environment
  • Enable communities to care for their own environment

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