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Resources

Question
CBSEENSS8007278

Differentiate between the followings.

Potential and actual resources

Solution

Potential resources

Actual resources

1.Potential resources are those whose entire quantity may not be known and these are not being used at present.

2. These resources could be used in the future.

3. Examples: uranium deposits in Ladakh.

 

1.Actual resources are those resources whose quantity is known.

2. These resources are being used in the present.

3.The rich deposits of coal in Ruhr region of Germany and petroleum in the West Asia, the dark soils of the Deccan plateau in Maharashtra are all actual resources.