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Natural resources are found within the environment.

• True

• False

The resources are the sources of supply or support to meet the needs of people, animals and plants

• True

• False

Resources are found in many forms, such as:

• wood in forests

• gold in mines

• oil in wells

• domestic animals

Resources can be classified into groups n the following different ways based on the level of

development and use:

• based on origin

• based on exhaustbility

• based on ownership

• based on use and utility.

Resources used carefully and giving them time to get renewed is called

• resource depletion

• resource conservation

• resource pollution

• none of these

Sustainable Development is

• A right Balance between use of resources and conservation of resources

• Allow the resources to be renewed

• Promote recycling of technological devices

• Allow clearing of forests to construct apartments

_________ means to use less of something?

• Reduce

• Recycle

To _________ is to use something more than once.

• reduce

• reuse

The students toss their papers in the _________ bin instead of the trash can.

• reducing

• recycling

Conservation does not prohibits the use of resources but emphasizes their efficient use.

• True

• False