Earth’s Resources

GEO/215

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Open Book Final Exam:Based on the textbook readings, Chapters 9 required this week, please respond in 300 – 400 words (excluding the reference section). Try to bring in the course material you have learned to inform your response. Please create an academic, researched, critically thought out response similar to a Discussion Question response.

1.What is a resource? How do political-cultural, technologic, and economic factors determine whether substances in the environment become valuable resources? (Chapter 9)

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What is a resource?

A resource is a profitable and fruitful factor that is very useful to the society. These include natural resources and human made resources. Natural resources include geologic and energy resources, air and water resources, and forests. A natural resource therefore is generated through natural mechanisms and it is used and valued by people (Hackett, 2011).

How do political-cultural, technologic, and economic factors determine whether substances in the environment become valuable resources?

Political-cultural factors affect the decision of people in the society on the commodities that are advantageous and good enough to use………………..

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