NCERT Chapter Summary: Resources and Development

NCERT Chapter Summary: Resources and Development

1. Define natural resources.

Resources that are drawn from nature and used without much modification are called natural resources.

2. Give five examples of natural resources.

The examples natural resources are soil, minerals, air, sun and water.

3. What do you mean by resources?

Anything that can be used to satisfy a need is called resource.

4. What is patent?

Patent means the exclusive right over any idea or invention.

5. What is technology?

Technology is the application of latest knowledge and skill in doing or making things.

6. How people are the most important resource?

People are the most important resource, as their ideas, knowledge, inventions and discoveries lead to the creation of more resources.

7. How value of resources is measured?

Some resources have economic value, some do not. For example, metals may have an economic value, a beautiful landscape may not. But both are important and satisfy human needs.

8. What does resource conservation mean?

Using resources carefully and giving them time to get renewed is called resource conservation.

9. What are actual resources?

Actual resources are those resources whose quantity is known. These resources are being used in the present. 

10. How does an object or a substance become a resource?

All the things used by us have utility. Utility or usability is what makes an object or substance a resource.