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USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES, fertile soil, forests, mining resources, aguaç,…
USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Renewable Resources
Fertile soil
Basis of
global food supply
overexploitation
Important because
agriculture
livestock
Forests
Absorption of CO2
Necessary in order to
animal biodiversity
to generate oxygen
maintain plant
Resources such as wood
Recreational areas.
With inexhaustible resources
Are fundamental because
renewal depend on rational use
their existence
Logging and forest fires
Rich soil
cannot be recovered
disappear every year
Forests
most threatened resources
due to abusive exploitation
Weather conditions
uprooting
displacement
erosion
Definition
Changed greatly over the last few years
Are the basis of the whole system
Demand For Water
Pollution and overexploitation of aquifers
Availability of drinking water
Depends on level of development
Fresh water is renewable and is in scarce supply on our planet
Equatorial climate
Don't have
water distribution network
sewerage system
collect waste and water and bring them to a purification system to be treated
Must be conserved
Advanced countries do not worry about the scarcity of water
Non-Renewable Resources
High global population
Consumerism
Industrial and economic development
Mining resources
Exploitation
Essential that we find alternatives
Must not be wasted
