What are inexhaustible resources?

Answer 1

Renewable means that we can replace the resource as we need it or as we use it up. This includes products made from plants and animals that can be managed. Managed in this case means both grown under cultivation (wood, grains, food) or used at a rate that is below the natural replacement rates (e.g. wild fish stocks).

Inexhaustible means will never run out. The sun will die in about five billion years' time. So sunlight is not inexhaustible. Before that time, the earth and we will be frozen and dead, so wind, tides, water, geothermal and all other resources will also be finished. So nothing is inexhaustible, strictly speaking.

However, if we just consider these resources to be available as long as the human species is around to need them then we can say that there is no effective difference between inexhaustible and renewable resources.

So all the following are both inexhaustible and renewable:

• solar power
• wind
• wave and tidal and hydro-electric
• geothermal
• biomass and biofuel
• water
• plants, crops, vegetation, trees and forests (so long as we keep replanting and regrowing at the same rate).

Answer 2

Inexhaustible resources are resources that will never run out. Examples: Wind, sun, tides, solar energy, geothermal energy.

Answer 3

an resource that cna never be used up such as sun,water,air