The Earth's resources can be categorized into mineral, soil, water, and energy resources. Mineral resources are extracted through various mining techniques, including strip mining, leach mining, open-pit mining, and underground mining.
We speed up
erosion through the following actions.
Recreational activities, like driving vehicles off-road or hiking
Development and Expansion
Mining operations
Deforestation
Overgrazing Animals
Agricultural Depletion
Water resources
About 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered with water, most of which is found in the
oceans.
This means
that just 2.5% of Earth's water is fresh water, water with low concentrations of salts. that just 2.5% of Earth's water is fresh water, water with low concentrations
In fact, 97.5% of Earth's water, nearly all of it, is in the Earth’s oceans.
