WORKSHEET I

SOCIAL SCIENCE
2024-25
CLASS VIll
DATE
NAME OF THE STUDENT:
GEOGRAPHY
CHI
RESOURCES
Choose the correct option

0L Resources that we find in nature and are used without much

modification are called
(a) Human Resource (b) Natural Resource (c) Renewable Resource (d) Human Made Resource
the basis of--
02. Natural resources are classified into various types on
(a) Distribution (b) Development (c) Origin (d) Allof these

human needs is a
Q3. Anything that can be used to satisfy
(a) Thing (b) Value (c) Resource (d) Utility

are known as
04. Resources which can be renewed or replenished
Resource (d) Useful Resource
(a) Exhaustible Resource (b) Renewable Resource (c) Non-Renewable

Answer in one word:

terrain.
Q5. The distribution of natural resources is unequal due tophysical factors like
climate and altitude.
is called
Q.6 Using resources carefully and giving them time to get renewed
them for the future is called
Q.7 Balancing the need to use resources and also conserving

FILL IN THEBLANKS

0.8 All ----- have some utility and value.

0.9. Land, water and soil are --- resources.
Q.10. Human beings use -- and to develop resources.
0.1| ----is an example of actual resource.
makes an object or substance a resource.
Q.12.

VERY SHORT QUESTIONS:

Q.13 Give two examples of resources that economic value?

Q.14 What are natural resources ? Give two examples.
Q.15 What are inexhaustible resource?
 WORKSHEET II
SOCIAL SCIENCE
2024-25
CLASS VI)
NAME OF THE STUDENT: DATE

GEOGRAPHY
CH I
RESOURCES

ANSWERTHE FOLLOWING
Why aluminium metal has great importance ?
Why is conservation of mineral important ? How can we conserve mineral ?
Explain the significance of time and technology in making a substance a resource. Give a
brief not.
Explain the duties of the citizens to preserve the earth.
Write a short note about human resources.

Read the paragraph and answver the following

grandmother's hone remedies
Some resources can become economically valuable with time. Your
tomorrow, they
have no commercial value today. But if they are patented and sold by a medical firm
change
could become economically valuable. Time and technology are two important factors that canthe most
related to the needs of the people. People themsclves are
substances into resources. Both are
discoveries that lead to the creation of
important resource. It is their ideas, knowledge, inventions and
The discovery of fire led to the
more resources. Each discovery or invention leads to many others. ultimately resulted in
practice of cooking and other processes while the invention of the wheel has turned
development of newer modes of transport. The technology to create hydroelectricity
Resources Resources are generally
energy in fast flowing water into an inmportant resource. Types of Resources that are drawn from
classifiedinto natural, human made and human. Natural Resources
resources. The air we breathe, the
Nature and used without much modification are called natural
resources. Many of these resources are
water in our riversand lakes, the soils. minerals are all natural
technology may be needed to
free gifts of nature and can be used directly. In some cases tools and
can be broadly categorised into
use a natural resource in the best possible way. Natural resources
which get renewed or
renewable and nonrenewable resources. Renewable resources are those
human activities, such as
replenished quickly. Some of these are unlimited and are not affected by soil and forest can
resources like water,
solar and wind energy. Yet careless use of certain renewable
shortage and drying up of
affect their stock. Water seems to be an unlimited renewable resource. But Non-renewable resources
worldtoday.
natural water sources is a major problem in manyparts of the it may take thousands of years to
thestocks are exhausted
are those which have a limited stock. Once
than human life spans, such resources are
be renewed or replenished. Since this period is much more examples. The distribution of
considered nonrenewable. Coal. petroleum and natural gas are some
factors like terrain, climate and altitude. The
natural resources depends upon number of physical so much over the earth.
distribution of resources is unequal because these factors differ
according to the paragraph ?
1. What factor can change substance into resources resources?
relation to
2. How are people described in the paragraph in
discovery or invention led to the creation of more
3. Provide an eg from the paragraph of how a
resources