Geography ch 1- Earth’s Store House (Extra questions)

Geography ch 1- Earth’s Store House

1. What is meant by quantity and quality of human resources.
 Quantity is just the density of population, whereas Quality means physical and mental skills of people.

2. What are two factors that help in the development of resources.
Economic viability, needs of people, Technology knowledge, skills and knowledge of people.

3. Why resources are backbone of the economy? 
because it is the basis of agriculture and industry.

4.  why resources are essential for human survival and development? 
 because they constitute natural environment like air water.

5. Define resource ?Give examples.
Resource:Anything which satisfies human needs is a resource .ex-water, textbook, air, land, vegetable etc.

6.  What do you understand by the term ’sustainable development?
Sustainable development is the process of development in which resources are used wisely without wasting them or damaging the environment.

7. Why resources are backbone of the economy? 
 because it is the basis of agriculture and industry.

8. Why resources are essential for human survival and development? 
because they constitute natural environment like air water.

9. Why resources are essential for the happiness and comfortable living?
Many human made resources have provided comfortable living and happiness like transport, electronic gadgets.

10. Why is human resource important ?

1) People can make the best use of nature to create more resources when they have the knowledge, skill and the technology to do so.

2) People are human resources.

     3) Education and health help in making people a valuable resource.