Resources

Resources

Time and technology are two important factors that
can change substances into resources. Both are related
to the needs of the people.

Time and technology are two important factors that can change substances into resources. Both are related to the needs of the people. People themselves are the most important resource. It is their ideas, knowledge, inventions and discoveries that lead to the creation of more resources.

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  all uses of renewable resources are sustainable

  
  

• the diversity of life on the earth is conserved

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  the damage to natural environmental system is

  minimised

Human Made Resources

Sometimes, natural substances become resources only

when their original form has been changed. Iron ore

was not a resource until people learnt to extract iron

from it. People use natural resources to make buildings,

bridges, roads, machinery and vehicles, which are

known as

human made resources

. Technology is also

a human made resource.