SOCIAL SCIENCE
CLASS 8
RESOURCE:Utilization and Development
OBJECTIVE
• Understand the conceptof
resources,classification,and utilization of
resources
• Realise the need and methods of
conservation and sustainable
development
Aids
• Pictures, chart, ppt, board, duster
P.K.TESTING
• Q1.What has nature bestowed upon our
Mother Earth?
• Q2.Why did earlier human civilization
flourish along the river valleys?
• Q3.Why conservation of natural resources
important?
KEY CONCEPTS
• Exhaustible
• Renewable
• Biotic
• Abiotic
• Capital
• Potential
• Sustainable
• Depletion
FLOW CHART
FLOW OF CHAPTER
• Resources
• Utilization of Resources
• Classification of Resources
• Sustainable Development
• Conservation
Activity
POINTS FOR EMPHASIS
• Resources
• Skill
• Potential
• Inexhaustible
• Exhaustible
• Sustainable development
• Judiciously
• Degradation
• Conservation
HOME ASSIGNMENT
RESOURCES :UTILIZATION & DEVELOPMENT
• RESOURCE
PLANNING
WORKSHEET
• Class VIII: Chapter 1 (Resource) Multiple Choice Questions:
• Q1. 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
• Q2. Natural resource are classified into various types on the basis of:
(select the incorrect one)
• (a) Distribution
• (b) Development
• (c) Origin
• (d) Destruction
• Q3. All non-living things are known as ..................
• (a) Biotic Resource
• (b) Exhaustible Resource
• (c) Abiotic Resource
• (d) Human Resource
• Q4. Anything that can be used to satisfy human needs is a ..................
• (a) Thing
• (b) Value
• (c) Resource
• (d) Utility
• Q5. Resources which can be renewed or reproduced are known as ..................
• (a) Exhaustible Resource
• (b) Renewable Resource
• (c) Non-Renewable Resource
• (d) Useful Resource
• Q6.Distinguish between renewable and
non
renewable resources.
• Q7.On what factors does the utilization of
resource depend upon.