Question

Some natural resources are given below. Classify them into the exhaustible and inexhaustible natural resources.
Air, sunlight, oxygen, coal, natural gas, petroleum, minerals, forests.

Answer 1

Exhaustible natural resources are the resources that are present in limited quantity and can be exhausted by human activities.
Inexhaustible natural resources are present in unlimited quantity and cannot be exhausted by human activities.

Amongst the given natural resources,
Exhaustible resources are coal, natural gas, petroleum, minerals, and forests.
Inexhaustible resources are air, sunlight and oxygen.