RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT
QUICK REVISION FOR BOARD EXAM
1. Resources: A stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively.
2. Biotic: Relating to or resulting from living organisms. The biotic factors of an ecosystem are all the living organisms that affect other organisms in an ecosystem and include animals, plants, microorganisms, dead organisms, and even animal waste.
3. Abiotic: Devoid of life. Non biological factors, material or process which can affect living or non-living organisms, like rocks, weather and sunlight.
4. Renewable Resources: It is a substance of economic value that can be replaced or replenished in the same or less amount of time as it takes to draw the supply down.
5. Non-Renewable Resources: It is a resource of economic value that cannot be readily replaced by natural means on a level equal to its consumption.
6. Natural Vegetation: It refers to the plants and other flora that make up the plant life in the region.
7. Recycle: To convert (waste) into reusable material.
8. Individual Resources: These types of resources are owned by individuals, for instance, people in rural areas own lands while in urban areas, people have their own houses,plots, etc. to live in.
9. Community owned Resources: This type of resources can be accessed by all the members of a community. This includes public parks, picnic spots, grazing grounds, and playgrounds, etc. which are accessible by everyone living around.
10. International Resources: The international Resource Panel is a scientific panel of experts that aim to help nations use natural resources sustainably without compromising economic growth and human needs.
11. Potential Resources: Resources found in a region but not being used at present.
12. Developed Resources: They are those resources which have been surveyed and identified for their quantity and quality. Their development depends upon the availability of technology
13. Reserves: These are such materials that can be utilised with existing technology but their use has not yet been started.
14. Conservation: The protection of plants and animals, natural areas, and interesting and important buildings especially from the damaging effects of human activity.
15. Land Resources: It refers to the land available for exploitation, like non-agricultural lands for buildings, developing townships, etc. Land resources (natural resources (economically referred to as land or raw materials) occur naturally within environments that exist relatively undisturbed by mankind, in a natural form.
16. Degradation: The process in which the beauty or quality of something is destroyed or spoiled: environmental degradation.
17. Stock: These are materials in the environment that can be utilised as resources but lack of adequate technology hampers their usage.
18. Sheet Erosion: Loss of top layers of nutrient rich soil due to water (rain), loosening soil particles and carrying them across the land.
19. Gullies: A ravine formed by the action of water.
20. Bad Land: It is a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water.
21. Soil Erosion: It is a naturally occurring process that affects all landforms. Displacement of upper layer of soil.
22. Plateau: A large flat area of land that is high above sea level.
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