Resource Geography and Conservation Vocabulary

Vocabulary flashcards generated from lecture notes covering key definitions and concepts in resource geography, resource classification, occupations, and environmental conservation.

Resource

A material essential for human living that possesses functionality and utility.

Neutral Stuff

Material that is currently neither useful nor harmful to humans, but may become useful in the future.

Resistance

A material or phenomenon that is harmful or obstructive to humans, such as infertile soil or severely flood-affected areas.

Wealth

Useful materials with exchange value, limited supply, and the ability to be transferred through money or value.

Resource Conservation

The practice of using resources as completely and beneficially as possible without destruction, misuse, or wastage, to obtain benefits over a long period while meeting present needs.

Natural Resources

Resources formed naturally in the environment, such as sunshine, air, water, soil, plants, animals, minerals, rivers, coal, petroleum, and natural gas.

Man-made Resources

Natural materials transformed by human effort and technology into useful forms, such as paper, cloth, plastics, medicines, technology, houses, roads, vehicles, and farm equipment.

Human Resources

Human knowledge, skills, education, and abilities that enable people to identify utility in natural materials and create or manage resources.

Biotic Resources

Resources that possess life or have living origins, including plants, animals, fish, and crops.

Abiotic Resources

Resources that lack life, including soil, rocks, water, air, minerals, and non-living materials like coal, petroleum, and natural gas.

Renewable Resources

Resources that can be regenerated or kept available after use, including sunlight, air, water, plants, animals, crops, and human beings.

Non-renewable Resources

Resources with limited supplies that cannot be regenerated after use and face complete exhaustion, such as coal, petroleum, natural gas, and metallic minerals.

Individual Resources

Resources owned or possessed by individuals, including land, household property, education, character, and working skills.

National Resources

Resources under the possession or responsibility of a country, including land, rivers, transport networks, institutions, wildlife sanctuaries, and government systems.

International Resources

Resources belonging collectively to all countries or the world, including oceans, seas, their resources, the atmosphere, and global forests.

Localized Resources

Natural resources found only in selected places on Earth, such as coal, petroleum, iron ore, uranium, other minerals, vegetation, and crops.

Primary Occupations

Economic activities that collect resources directly from nature, including agriculture, fishing, forestry, and mineral extraction.

Secondary Occupations

Economic activities that transform naturally collected commodities into usable forms through technology, including manufacturing, construction, and repair.

Tertiary Occupations

Economic activities that distribute goods and services to consumers, including transport, communication, marketing, trade, and tourism.

Quaternary Occupations

Economic activities that make secondary and tertiary activities easier and more productive through finance, media, administration, education, and research.

Resource Geography

A branch of economic geography that studies resource types, distribution, exploration, production, resource-development relationships, and conservation management.

Agricultural Geography

A branch of economic geography that studies agricultural factors, types, distribution, methods, crop production, location theories, and agricultural marketing and trade.

Industrial Geography

A branch of economic geography that studies industrial location factors, types and distribution of industries, production, location theories, and industrial marketing and trade.

Marketing Geography

A branch of economic geography that studies the need for markets, factors affecting them, market types and distribution, and related theories.

Transport Geography

A branch of economic geography that studies transport systems, factors affecting them, and transport's role in resource distribution, economic activity, and development.

Tourism Geography

A branch of economic geography that studies tourism growth factors, tourism types, and tourism-system development and planning.

Planning and Development Geography

A branch of economic geography that studies development factors, planning strategies, sustainable development, and regional and resource-based development.

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

An international organization associated with the United Nations that researches global environmental and natural resource conservation, including biodiversity, and takes appropriate conservation measures.

Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change

The ministry of India responsible for environmental protection, managing autonomous forestry research institutes, and conservation-related laws.

World Environment Day

An international day observed worldwide on 5 June to increase public awareness of environmental protection.

Innovation (in Resource Conservation)

Developing improved ways to convert natural resources into useful forms while reducing the misuse of raw materials.

Recycling

Conserving resources by reusing discarded materials—such as old polythene bags, plastic bottles, paper, and iron scrap—to reduce the need for limited raw materials.