Question

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

• A. Exhaustible: petroleum, coal, natural gas, forests, minerals, water
  Inexhaustible: wind, sunlight
• B. Exhaustible: petroleum, coal, natural gas, forests, minerals
  Inexhaustible: wind, sunlight, water
• C. Exhaustible: petroleum, coal, natural gas, forests, wind
  Inexhaustible: sunlight, water, minerals
• D. Exhaustible: petroleum, coal, natural gas, forests, minerals, wind
  Inexhaustible: sunlight, water

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Exhaustible: petroleum, coal, natural gas, forests, minerals

Inexhaustible: wind, sunlight, water
An inexhaustible resource is one that can be replenished, while an exhaustible resource cannot be replenished. Wind, sunlight and water are inexhaustible resources while petroleum, coal, natural gas, forests and minerals are exhaustible resources.