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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 |
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Solution
- Exhaustible natural resources are: Coal, natural gas, petroleum, minerals, forests.
- Inexhaustible natural resources are: Air, sunlight, oxygen.
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