what is the definition of natural resources?
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Hey! Can I do your homework for you?? Cause you could have searched it on your own...\n\nNatural resources are naturally occurring substances that are considered valuable in their relatively unmodified (natural) form. A commodity is generally considered a natural resource when the primary activities associated with it are extraction and purification, as opposed to creation. Thus, mining, petroleum extraction, fishing, and forestry are generally considered natural-resource industries, while agriculture is not. The term was introduced to a broad audience by E.F. Schumacher in his 1970s book Small Is Beautiful.\n\nNatural resources are often classified into renewable and non-renewable resources. Renewable resources are generally living resources (fish, coffee, and forests, for example), which can restock (renew) themselves at approximately the rate at which they are extracted, if they are not overharvested. Non-living renewable natural resources include soil, as well as water, wind, tides and solar radiation — compare with renewable energy.\n\nMineral resources are generally non-renewable and, once a site's non-renewable resource is exhausted, it is considered to be useless for future extraction, barring technological improvements that allow economic extraction from the tailings. Technological improvements may also allow future extraction of metals at lower concentrations than at previous times, which converts low-grade resources into ore, and may re-open or expand mines.\n\nBoth extraction of the basic resource and refining it into a purer, directly usable form, (e.g., metals, refined oils) are generally considered natural-resource activities, even though the latter may not necessarily occur near the former.\nRainforest on Fatu-Hiva, Marquesas Islands\nEnlarge\nRainforest on Fatu-Hiva, Marquesas Islands\n\nNatural resources are natural capital converted to commodity inputs to infrastructural capital processes. They include soil, timber, oil, minerals, and other goods taken more or less as they are from the Earth.\n\nA nation's natural resources often determine its wealth and status in the world economic system, by determining its political nfluence. Developed nations are those which are less dependent on natural resources for wealth, due to their greater reliance on infrastructural capital for production. However, some see a resource curse whereby easily obtainable natural resources could actually the prospects of a national economy by fostering political corruption.\n\nIn recent years, the depletion of natural capital and attempts to move to sustainable development have been a major focus of development agencies. This is of particular concern in rainforest regions, which hold most of the Earth's natural biodiversity - irreplaceable genetic natural capital. Conservation of natural resources is the major focus of Natural Capitalism, environmentalism, the ecology movement, and Green Parties. Some view this depletion as a major source of social unrest and conflicts in developing nations.
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natural resources include: coal, iron ore, bauxite, zinc, uranium, antimony, arsenic, potash, feldspar, fluorospar, gypsum, timber, and fish.
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A "natural crime" is a crime that breaks moral laws or standards rather than legal ones.\n\nFor example, cheating on your girlfriend or lying to your boss are "natural crimes" but not legal ones.
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Poaching.\nHabitat loss and fragmentation, encroaching human populations.
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Conservation is using renewable resources so that the resources will be renewed.  In other words, don't take out more than nature can replenish in a given amount of time.
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Factors of production are resources used in the production of goods and services in economics. Classical economics distinguishes between three factors:\n\nLand or natural resources - naturally-occurring goods such as soil and minerals that are used in the creation of products. The payment for land is rent. \nLabor - human effort used in production which also includes technical and marketing expertise. The payment for labor is a wage. \nCapital goods - human-made goods (or means of production) which are used in the production of other goods. These include machinery, tools and buildings. In a general sense, the payment for capital is called interest.
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The economic definition of wealth listed on the American Heritage Dictionary is "all goods and resources having value in terms of exchange or use." These can include money, goods or property. The normal definition of wealth is having many goods or resources of valuable.
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No, there is a fixed amount of iron on the planet.  It is an element.\n\nA renewable resource would be one that you can use and then produce more of like trees, crops, clean water etc...
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A primary resource is one that is especially focused on whatever it is you are researching or need to know.  A secondary resource is one that touches on what you need to know without focusing on it, or is written by someone who is not an authority on a subject but refers to an authority.  So - say you wanted to research the French Revoluition - the book "Citizens : A Chronicle of the French Revolution" by Simon Schama would be a primary resource.  A book about French history from 1700 to 19oo would be a secondary resource because it would deal with the French Revolution among other related topics.
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The law varies from state to state. Contact your local Dept. of Natural Resources.
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These have become necessary aspects of our modern lives, to access the resources necessary to fulfill the needs of modern civilization.  We are now capable, though, in producing synthetics to take the place of many aspects of mining and logging, and we are also capable of much cleaner, environmentally friendly access to resources, such as re-planting, minimally invasive mining, etc.  Good stewardship of resources is essential for continued growth and sustainable resources for our future.
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The quantity and quality of a resource is determined by whether it is a renewable, non-renewable, or a flow resource. \n\nRenewable resources, such as plants and animals, can replenish themselves after they have been used if their physical environment has not been destroyed. If trees are harvested carefully, a new forest will grow to replace the one that was cut. If animals eat grass in a pasture to a certain level, grass will grow again and provide food for animals in the future, as long as the carrying capacity of the land is not exceeded by the pressure of too many animals. \n\nNonrenewable resources, such as minerals and fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), can be extracted and used only once. \n\nFlow resources, such as water, wind, and sunlight, are neither renewable nor nonrenewable because they must be used as, when, and where they occur. The energy in a river can be used to generate electricity, which can be transmitted over great distances. However, that energy must be captured by turbines as the water flows past or it will be lost.
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Renewable energy resources may be used directly, or used to create other more convenient forms of energy. Examples of direct use are solar ovens, geothermal heating, and water- and windmills. Examples of indirect use which require energy harvesting are electricity generation through wind turbines or photovoltaic cells (PV cells), or production of fuels such as ethanol from biomass (see alcohol as a fuel). A parameter sometimes used in renewable energy is the tonne of oil equivalent (toe). This is equal to 10,000 Mcal or 41,868 MJ of energy.\n\nIn a sense, renewable energy may be categorised as free energy, although most renewable energy sources would not normally be called "free energy". In engineering, free energy means an energy source available directly from the greater environment and which cannot be expected to be depletable by humans. Renewable energy development is concerned with the use of renewable energy sources by humans. For aspects of renewable energy use in modern societies see Renewable energy development. Modern interest in renewable energy development is linked to concerns about exhaustion of fossil fuels and environmental, social and political risks of extensive use of fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
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The study of the natural features of the earth's surface, especially in its current aspects, including land formation, climate, currents, and distribution of flora and fauna. Also called physiography.
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Perhaps this will get you started....I think that is what you want.\n\nThe field of resource economics includes the study of environmental economics, agricultural production and marketing, bioeconomics, community economic development, resource utilization, and environmental policy.\n\nIt has evolved as the idea of "natural resources" and "human resources" were challenged by the ideas of "natural capital" and "human capital" and is now hard to characterize as a separate field of its own. It was a major influence on the theory of Natural Capitalism and of eco-villages.
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Define power.\nElectricity is the flow of electrons through a substance.\nIn the United States, electricity can be generated through coal/fossil fuel burning plants, nuclear power plants, wind(mills), and solar energy collection.\n\nIn fossil fuel and nuclear plants, they use the furnace and nuclear reactor to heat up water in order to turn a turbine, which spins around an electromagnet to generate electricity. There is much loss of energy through this process because much of the energy used to heat the water is lost through convection.  In windmills, the wind directly turns the turbine, so there is not as much loss, plus, it is a renewable resource.
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photogallery.nrcs.usda.gov/Index.asp\nwww.iucn.org\nwww.hoovers.com/nrcs/--ID__150474--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml\n\n\nABOVE ALL U R A NATURAL RESOURCE....CONSERVE URSELF.....take care bye bye...