Conserving natural resources

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Social Studies Fa-1 Activity

• Topic- Resource conservation

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Types of resources

• Natural resources
• Human made resources
• Human resources

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Natural resources

• Development and Use
• It consists of Actual and Potential.
• Examples of Actual resources-Coal and Petrol.
• Examples of Potential resources-Wind.
• Origin
• It consists of Biotic and Abiotic.
• Examples of Biotic-Plants and Animals.
• Examples of Abiotic-Soil and Rocks.

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Stock and Distribution

• Stock
• It consists of Renewable and Non- Renewable
• Resources.
• Example of Renewable resources-Solar energy and
  wind.
• Example of Non-Renewable resources-Coal and
  Petrol.
• Distribution
• It consists of localised and Ubiquitous.
• Examples of localized-Iron.
• Examples of Ubiquitous-Wind.

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Human made resources

• Sometimes, natural substances become resources
  only when their original form has been changed.
  Technology is also a Human made resource. Thus
  people use natural resources to make human made
  resources. Iron ore was not resource until people
  
• Examples Road and Bridge

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Human resource

• People can make the best use of nature to create
  more resources when they have the knowledge,
  skill and the technology to do so. That is why
  human beings are a special resource.

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Conserving Resources

• Using resources carefully and giving them, time
  to get renewed is called Resource Conservation.
  Balancing the need to use resources and also
  conserve them for future use is called
  Sustainable development.

• Glossary
• Sustainable Resources Carefully utilizing
  resources so that besides meeting the requirement
  of the present, also takes care of future
  generations.

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Ways to conserve resources

• Reduce! Buy and use less stuff. This is the best
  way to conserve natural resources. For example,
  it takes one ton of raw materials from the earth
  to make one laptop computer! We can also pay
  special attention to reducing the amount of
  non-renewable resources we use. For instance, by
  reducing our use of non-renewable oil and coal to
  give us energy and electricity, we can make less
  air pollution.
• Reuse! Use something over and over again before
  recycling, composting, or throwing it away. When
  something is broken, try to fix it instead of
  putting it in the trash and buying it again new.

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• Recycle! Turn something old into something new.
  Recycling means we don't have to get more natural
  resources to make new things. For instance,
  instead of digging up new bauxite from the
  rainforest to make new aluminum cans, we can
  recycle our cans and use the old aluminum to make
  new cans.

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Some Principles of Sustainable development

• Respect and care of all forms of life.
• Improve the quality of human life.
• Conserve the earth's vitality and diversity.
• Minimize the depletion of natural resources.
• Change personal attitudes and practices towards
  the environment.
• Enable communities to care for their own
  environment.