This document summarizes different types of natural resources including renewable and non-renewable resources. It discusses key renewable resources such as forests, wildlife, wind, and hydro energies. Non-renewable resources mentioned include fossil fuels like coal and petroleum. Specific natural resources covered in more depth include forests, water, minerals, land, and food. Forests are declining worldwide, especially in tropical Asia. Water is essential to life. Minerals have definite chemical compositions. Land has historically provided sustenance, fuel, clothing and shelter. Food comes from agriculture and livestock and provides essential nutrients.

1. Supported by:
Suraj Khadka
Kaushal Shrestha
Puja Khadka
Designed by:
Nimesh Shrestha

2.  Life on this planet earth depends on a variety of goods and
services provided by the nature, which are known as Natural
Resources.
 Any stock or reserve that can be drawn from nature is a Natural
Resource
 Natural Resources of two Types:
• Renewable Resources- they are in exhaustive and can be
regenerated in a given span of time. E.g. Forests, wildlife,
wind, biomass, tidal, hydro energies etc.
• Non-Renewable Resources- they are exhaustive and
cannot be regenerated. E.g. Fossil fuels- coal, petroleum,
minerals, etc.

3. Forest Resources
Water Resources
Mineral Resources
Food Resources
Land Resources

4. Forests is green blanket covering the Earth
About 1/3rd of the world’s land area is forested
which includes closed as well as open forests.
But the forest cover is depleting. Greatest losses
have occurred in Tropical Asia, where one third
of the forest is destroyed.
Current Forest area of India: 24.1% (FSI report
2013)

5. Fuel Requirement
Raw material for industries
Shifting cultivation
Development projects –dams
Growing food needs
Overgrazing
Forest fires

7.  Water is known as LIFE
 Nearly 80% of body composition
 Water is a chemical substance, a liquid at ambient
conditions, often co-exists on earth with its solid state i.e
ice, and gaseous state i.e water vapor or steam.
 Properties:
• Universal solvent- so it can be nutrient carrier,
• High surface tension- so it can rise easily at great heights,
• Anomalous expansion- it freezes, it expands instead of
contacting.

9. Water
Rain
Ground
Water
Aquifer
Confined Unconfined
Surface
Water
Pond, Lake, Rivers,
Streams, Artificial
Reservoirs
Ice Caps,
Glaciers

10. Minerals are naturally occurring, inorganic,
crystalline solids having a definite chemical
composition & characteristics properties.
Composition of Mineral:
• Silicon, oxygen, iron, magnessium, calcium, aluminium,
etc.
• Some common minerals like quartz, feldspar, biolite,
dolomite, calcite, laterite, etc.

12.  The most important natural resource, upon which all
human activity is based since time immemorial, is land.
 Land resource is our basic resource.
 Throughout history, we have drawn most of our
sustenance and much of our fuel, clothing and shelter
from the land.
 It is useful to us as a source of food, as a place to live,
work and play. It is a productive economic factor in
agriculture, forestry, grazing, fishing and mining.
 It is considered as a foundation of social prestige and is
the basis of wealth and political power.

13.  Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support
for the body.
 It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential
nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or
mineral.
 Out of thousands of edible plants and animals around 3 dozen
types form major food of humans
 Agriculture is the source of majority of food components

14. Staple foods:
Agriculture
Meat, Milk and products:
Livestock

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