Renewable Resources- can be replace after use provided that some seed stocks still exist.
Non- Renewable Resources- can-not be replaced or renewed once used.
The Renewable Resources are classified
into two:
FORESTRYFISHERY
Examples for Renewable Resources
MINERAL RESOURCES
NATURAL GAS
Examples For Non-Renewable
•Natural•Human•Cultural
General Classification of Resources
• The natural resources are the material things of economic value which man did not bring into existence.
• According to Norton Ginsberg natural resources is “ to include all the freely given material phenomena within the zone of man activities, plus the additional non-material quality of situation or location.
Concept Of Natural Resources
•Tropical Forest•Mid-Latitude Forest•Northern Forest
World’s Forest Resources
• It is mostly consist of hardwood Forests.• It can be found in the regions of low latitudes between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer.
Tropical Forest
Tropical Forest Hardwood
• The mid-latitude forests are a mixture of hardwood and softwoods.• The remaining virgin forests of these regions can be found mostly in the highlands of Europe and the United States.
Mid-Latitude Forest
Mid-Latitude Forest
Hardwood and Softwood
• The Northern Forest are more scattered and the individual trees are smaller compared to the tropical and mid-latitude Forests.• The Forest types are
predominantly Coniferous and many of the trees are mainly for pulp wood rather than lumber quality.
Northern Forests
• Northern forest are limited in the northern hemisphere, it lies mainly north of the 40th parallel extending poleward with in the humid to severe winter climate.
Northern Forests
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