importance of land resources

. Per capita land availability getting reduced every year due to high population growth, forest area is lost at an alarming rate every year mainly to be converted into agricultural land. The quantifiable utility of forest resource in the form of Forest industry corpora..

Summary - Environment refers to the natural elements that make up the earth and surround living organisms The abiotic or physical aspects of the environment refer to elements like air, soil, water etc. The biological or biotic components of environment are the plants and animals Natural resour..

Edaphic resources refer to soil resources. Due to varying temperature, rainfall, topographical characters in different parts of world, the rocks weather differently. Further, the rocks themselves are of varying chemical composition. Due to this varying types of soils are formed...

Biotic Resources - Wild life and forest constitute the biotic resources of nature. Wild life is abundant on land as well as in water, both fresh and marine. Life abounds in all habitats on land and in wat..

These are confined to national boundaries. Examples: Minerals and lands..

Animal Resources - All animal species, which are domesticated and grow friendly to human beings, are grouped as animal resources. These are some select species of animals. But they are large populations of each species, while wild species are large in number with smaller populat..

Population supplies trained and skilled labour to the country. It is important for the economic growth. If the skilled labour pioneer is properly utilised in industries, it will result in large scale production and the cost of production will fall, the price of products will decline and t..

Wild life resources include all animals, which grow and propagate naturally without any sort of human interference. They remain in wild form without any sort of friendly association with man. Invariably they are in forests. Wildlife serves as a resource to maintain the ecologica..

Crop Resources - The biodiversity of plants is spread in forests and crops. Crops are species of plants cultivated for centuries with specifically distinguishable characters from their wild ancestors. Forests cover large number of species on a limited geographical area. But, crops cover s..

The above resources can be classified as renewable or non-renewable. Some resources are constantly produced on the earth and are known as renewable resources. Others are not replenished and are called non-renewable sources. Resources Renewable resourcesh..