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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