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Question
Some natural resources are given below. Classify them into the exhaustible and inexhaustible natural resources.
| Air | coal | natural gas | sunlight | petroleum | minerals | forests | oxygen |
Solution
- Exhaustible natural resources are : Coal, natural gas, petroleum, minerals, forests.
- Inexhaustible natural resources are : Air, sunlight, oxygen.
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