Class 8 Social Science resources test

Consider whether human effort was required to make it useful. Rivers, forests and mineral deposits function as resources naturally - they only required discovery, not creation. Bricks, roads and machines, by contrast, become useful only through the application of technology and expertise to raw materials. Resources are man-made when human intervention shaped them into their useful state; they are natural when nature provided them ready-formed.

Renewable refers to the rate at which a resource replaces itself, not its current abundance. Forests exemplify this - they can renew themselves yet face extinction if harvesting exceeds regrowth, and fish populations too are renewable yet vulnerable to collapse through excessive fishing. Unless this distinction is grasped, the chapter's conservation message fails to land.

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