i need help with something for global studies. dealing with resources from the earth??? please read more!?

Question

can you tell me what natural resources,renewable resources and nonerenewable resources are? or just one. if you could that would help me a lot! thanks !

Answer 1

A natural resource is one found in nature than can be used for the benefit of man. Trees, water, soil, coal, oil, etc.

A renewable resource is one that can be replenished. Foe example, you can replant trees.

Non renewable resources cannot be replenished. When they are gone they are gone. Like oil, gas, coal, clean water, ores.

Answer 2

natural resource is anything that is not man made...say water, coal, trees, fish, etc. Renewable and renewable is entirely different from natural resource though the main connection here is that natural resources can be either renewable and non-renewable. A renewable resource is something that can easily be reproduced or renewed. This is practically things that you can produce in a short span of time like the ripening of apples from a tree. In your lifetime you can harvest more than once form this tree so that makes it renewable. So, renewables are eenrgy form the sun, wind, etc. The non-renewables are practically the ones which requires hundreds of years to make, say oil, coal, and these cannot be reproduced in you lifetime.

The critical thing here now is the rate of consumption versus the rate of production. Philosophically speaking, if there is so much people in the world the rate of natural production (like the time for the apple tree to bear fruit) may not be enough to balance the rate consumption of man and even the consumption of some animals that also eat .

Answer 3

Natural resources are any resource derived from the earth that can be harvested, extracted, mined etc. They can be subdivided into renewable, such as forestry (timber ,Pulp) trees will grow again and again so the resource can be exploited indefinitely, and non renewable, oil and gas, mining, once you mine it or pump it out its gone forever, eventually the resource will be depleted.