NATURAL

RESOURCES

By
SAKTHIKA
NATURAL RESOURCES
Natural resources are materials from the
Earth that are used to support life and
meet people's needs. Any natural
substance that humans use can be
considered a natural resource. Oil, coal,
natural gas, metals, stone and sand are
natural resources. Other natural resources
are air, sunlight, soil and water
NATURAL RESOUCRES
MAJOR NATURAL RESOURCES
• Forest Resources

• Water Resources
• Mineral Resources

• Energy Resources

• Food Resources
• Land Resources
 FOREST
RESOURCES
FOREST RESOURCES
Forests provide clean water and air, timber for
wood products, wildlife habitats, stable soil,
and recreational opportunities, and they
beautify the environment. Furthermore, they
are also an important economic resource
producing marketable timber
 USES
 Forests provide us a breath of fresh air.
 Forests keep the earth cool by reducing global
warming.
 Forests provide a home for humans & animals.
 Forests are important in maintaining the
Climate.
 Forests are important to prevent soil erosion
and controlling floods
DEFORSTATION
Deforestation refers to the decrease in forest areas
across the world that are lost for other uses such as
agricultural croplands, urbanization, or mining
activities. Greatly accelerated by human activities
since 1960, deforestation has been negatively
affecting natural ecosystems, biodiversity, and the
climate.
 WATER
RESOURCES
 WATER RESOURCES
• Water resources are sources of water that
are useful or potentially useful to humans.
Many uses of water include agricultural,
industrial, household, recreational and
environmental activities. Virtually all of
these human uses require fresh water
 USES
 For drinking
 For cleaning dishes
 For cooking
 For watering plants
 For washing clothes
 For bathing
 For generation of hydroelectricity
 For washing car
 Making our dog bath
 It helps in maintaining osmotic rate in humans
 DROUGHT
• When annual rainfall is below normal and less
than evaporation, drought conditions are
created.
• Meteorological Phenomenon
• Anthropogenic Causes:Grazing, deforestation,
mining.
• Leads to desertification
• Proper crop plantation is a
remedial measure.
FOOD RESOURCES

FOOD
RESOURCES
 FOOD RESOURCES
•
Food is essential for growth and development of
living organisms. These essential materials are
called nutrients and these nutrients are available
from variety of animals and plants. ... The majority
of people obtain food from cultivated plants and
domesticated animals
 MINERAL
RESOURCES
 MINERALS RESOURCES

A mineral resource is a concentration or

occurrence of solid material of economic interest
in or on the Earth's crust in such form, grade (or
quality), and quantity that there are reasonable
prospects for eventual economic extraction.
USES
Sr. Mineral Uses
No
1. Aluminium Packaging food items, transportation, utensils,
electronics
2. Chromium For making high strength steel alloys,
textile/tanning ind.
3. Copper Electric & Electronic Goods, building,
construction, vessels
4. Iron Heavy machinery, steel production,
transportation means
5. Lead Gasoline, car batteries, paints, ammunition

6. Manganese Making high strength, heat resistance steel

alloys
7. Gold Ornaments, medical use, use in aerospace

8. Silver Jewellery, photography, electronics

9. Nickel Batteries

10. Platinum Automobiles, catalytic convertors, jewellery,

medical use
 ENERGY
RESOURCES
ENERGY RESOURCES
Energy resources are all forms of fuels
used in the modern world, either for
heating, generation of electrical energy, or
for other forms of energy conversion
processes. Energy resources can be
roughly classified in three categories:
renewable, fossil, and nuclear.
 USES
•  Heating and cooling our homes
• Lighting office buildings
• Driving cars and moving freight
• Manufacturing the products
 LAND RESOURCES
• Land and Land Resources refer to a delineable
area of the earth's terrestrial surface,
encompassing all attributes of the biosphere
immediately above or below this surface, including
those of the near-surface climate, the soil and
terrain forms, the surface hydrology (including
shallow lakes, rivers, marshes and swamps .
USES OF LAND RESOURCES

• A store of wealth for individuals, groups, or a

community.
• Production of food, fibre, fuel or other biotic
materials for human use.
• Provision of biological habitats for plants,
animals and micro-organisms
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