Resources
1. What is a resource?
Answer: Anything that can be used to satisfy a need.
2. What are some examples of resources?
Answer: Water, electricity, rickshaw, vegetables, textbooks.
3. What is the difference between renewable and non-renewable resources?
Answer: Renewable resources can be replenished quickly, while non-renewable resources cannot.
4.What are some examples of renewable resources?
Answer: Solar energy, wind energy.
5. What are some examples of non-renewable resources?
Answer: Coal, petroleum, natural gas.
6.How can technology change a substance into a resource?
Answer: By making it possible to use the substance to satisfy a need.
7. What is the most important resource?
Answer: People.
8.How do people create new resources?
Answer: Through their ideas, knowledge, inventions, and discoveries.
9.What is an example of how a discovery led to the creation of new resources?
Answer: The discovery of fire led to the practice of cooking and other processes.
10. What is an example of how technology turned a substance into a resource?
Answer: The technology to create hydroelectricity turned energy in fast flowing water into an important resource.
11.What are some examples of human-made resources?
Answer: Buildings, bridges, roads, machinery, vehicles, and technology.
12.How can people improve their skills to create more resources?
Answer: Through education and health.
13.What is resource conservation?
Answer: Using resources carefully and giving them time to get renewed.
14.What is sustainable development?
Answer: Balancing the need to use resources and also conserve them for the future.
15.What are some ways to conserve resources?
Answer: Reduce consumption, recycle, and reuse things.
16.What did Mona, Raju, and their friends do to conserve resources?
Answer: They made packets and shopping bags out of old newspapers, discarded clothes, and baskets from bamboo sticks.
17.What can you do to conserve resources?
Answer: There are many things you can do, such as using less water, recycling paper and plastic, and turning off lights when you leave a room.
18.What is the future of our planet linked to?
Answer: Our ability to maintain and preserve the life support system that nature provides.
19.What are some things we can do to ensure a sustainable future?
Answer: Use renewable resources sustainably, conserve the diversity of life on Earth, and minimize damage to the natural environment.
20.What is the main message of the passage?
Answer: We all have a responsibility to conserve resources and ensure a sustainable future for our planet.
