Resource and Development Q1

Q1. What is a resource?

• Extracts from nature

• Man Made products

• Extracts from environment- technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally acceptable

• Any thing from which a product can be manufactured

The process of transformation of things available in our environment involves an interactive relationship between ………………………………………… ?

• Nature and technology

• nature, technology and institutions

• Environment and nature

• Environment and technology

Are resources free gifts of nature? And how?

• Yes they are

• They are not , Resources are a function of human activities

• Yes Resources are nurtured by nature

• No, Any thing from which a product can be manufactured

How are resources classified?

• On the basis of distribution

• On the basis of utility

• On the basis of origin

• On the basis of potential

Where are Biotic Resources obtained from?

• from biosphere and have life such as human beings, flora and fauna, fisheries, livestock

• composed of non-living things

• reproduced by physical, chemical or mechanical processes

• Minerals and fossil fuels

Where are Abiotic Resources obtained from?

• Minerals and fossil fuels

• reproduced by physical, chemical or mechanical processes

• composed of non-living things

• from biosphere and have life such as human beings, flora and fauna, fisheries, livestock

What are renewable resources?

• These are obtained from biosphere and have life

• which can be renewed or reproduced by physical, chemical or mechanical processes

• composed of non-living things

• from biosphere and have life such as human beings, flora and fauna, fisheries, livestock

Give examples of renewable resources:

• Minerals and fossil fuels

• solar and wind energy, water, forests and wildlife

• rocks and metals.

• None

Give examples of non renewable resources.

• Flora, fauna, fisheries, livestock

• Solar and wind energy, water, forests and wildlife

• Minerals and fossil fuels

• None

When was the first World Earth Summit conducted?

• 1991

• 1989

• 1992

• 1995