Question

Classify the following resources as exhaustible and inexhaustible natural resources : wind, petroleum, coal, natural gas, sunlight, forests, water, minerals.

Answer 1

Exhaustible resources:

• Exhaustible sources are known as those sources of energy, which will deplete and exhaust after a few hundred years.
• These are the organic natural resources that get formed be either through natural activity or other naturally recurring processes.
• It is the largest component of Earth's ecosphere, which can be eliminated by human activity.

Inexhaustible resources:

• Inexhaustible resources of energy are known as those sources, which will not exhaust in future.
• These are unlimited and resources that can't be replaced again after utilization.
• They are usually get formed over very long geological periods and for these the rate of formation is extremely slow,hence it can't be renewed easily.

Classification of the given resources:

• Exhaustible resources: Petrol, Coal natural gas, Forest and minerals.
• Inexhaustible resources: Wind, sunlight and water.

Hence, above the given resources has been classified as exhaustible and inexhaustible natural resources.