Question

1. Minerals are exhaustible resources.
2. There are produced by nature; humans can not create them.

Options

• (B) contradicts (А).

• (B) is the reason for (A).

• (A) is true but (B) is false.

• (A) and (B) are independent of each other.

Answer 1

(B) is the reason for (A).

Explanation:

Minerals are categorised as exhaustible (non-renewable) resources because they are generated naturally over millions of years by complicated, slow geological processes deep under the earth's crust. Because humans cannot artificially create or reproduce them, the current deposits are finite. Once these mineral deposits have been exploited and entirely depleted by human activity, they cannot be regenerated or recreated in a human timeline.