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  • Try this! A renewable exhaustible natural resource is:

A renewable exhaustible natural resource is:

  • Option 1)

    coal

  • Option 2)

    petroleum

  • Option 3)

    minerals

  • Option 4)

    forest

 

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As discussed in

Over-exploitation -

Humans have always depended on nature for food and shelter, but when ‘need’ turns to ‘greed’, it leads to over-exploitation of natural resources.

- wherein

Many species extinctions in the last 500 years (Steller’s sea cow, passenger pigeon) were due to overexploitation by humans. Presently many marine fish populations around the world are over harvested, endangering the continued existence of some commercially important species.

 

Over exploitation of some resources (eg. fossil fuels like coal and petroleum, minerals) leads to their extinctions and cannot be easily renewed. But forest is a natural resource that can be renewed.


Option 1)

coal

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Option 2)

petroleum

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Option 3)

minerals

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Option 4)

forest

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