NCERT CLASS-10 GEOGRAPHY CHAPTER-1 NOTES

NCERT CLASS-10 GEOGRAPHY

CHAPTER-1 [RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT]

Resource- everything available in our environment which can be used to satisfy our needs, provided, it is technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally acceptable can be termed as ‘Resource’.
Process of transformation of things- interdependent relationship between nature, technology and institutions.
Resource are a function of human activities.
Human beings transform material available in our environment into resources and use them.
Resource as can classified in the following ways:-

(a) on the basis of origin- biotic and abiotic.

(b) on the basis of exhaustibility - renewable and non- renewable.

(d) on the basis of status of development - potential, developed stock and reserves.

On the basis of origin-

= biotic resources- obtained from biosphere and have life such as human beings, flora and fauna, Fisheries and livestock etc.

= abiotic resources- composed of non- living things. Ex, rocks & metals.

On the basics of exhaustibility -

Renewable resources- resources which can be renewed or reproduced by physical, chemical or mechanical process are known as renewable resources.

= ex- solar & wind energy, water, forests and wildlife, etc.

= may further be divided into continuous or flow.

Non- renewable resources- occur over a very long geological time.

= minerals and fossil fuels are examples.

= some of the resources like metals are recyclable, fossil fuel cannot be recycled.

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