ASSIGNMENT
TOPIC: Manmade resources
Submitted to :Mrs.Radha Submitted by :Surabhila Sadanandan
Submitted on :23/06/2014
INDEX
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CONTENT
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INTRODUCTION
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3
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2.
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MUSEUM
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4-5
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3.
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ZOO
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6-7
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4.
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BIOLOGICAL GARDEN
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8-9
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5.
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AGRIFARM
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10-11
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6.
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HOSPITAL
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11-12
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KRISHIBHAVAN
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13
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RESEARCH CENTERS
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14-15
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CONCLUSION
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10.
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REFERENCE
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INTRODUCTION
A resource is a source or supply from which
benefit is produced. Typically resources are materials, services, staff, or
other assets that are transformed to produce benefit and in the process may be
consumed or made unavailable.They are of two types – Natural resources & Manmade resources. A natural resource is anything obtained from the environment to satisfy human needs and wants.Examples: water, crops, sunlight, crude oil, wood and gold. Man made resources is defined as a resource
created by humans. It does not occur naturally and is produced and consumed by
humans. Examples of these are Museums, Zoo, Botanical garden etc.
CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
1.MUSEUM
A museum is a manmade resource. It is an
institution that cares
for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes
them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent
or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the
world and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the
countryside. Museums have varying aims, ranging from serving researchers and
specialists to serving the general public. The continuing acceleration in the digitization of information,
combined with the increasing capacity of digital information storage, is causing the traditional model of museums (i.e. as static
“collections of collections” of three-dimensional specimens and artifacts) to
expand to include virtual exhibits and high-resolution
images of their collections for perusal, study, and exploration from any place
with Internet. The city with the largest number of museums is Mexico City with
over 128 museums. According to The World Museum Community, there are more than
55,000 museums in 202 countries.
The purpose of modern
museums is to collect, preserve, interpret, and display items of cultural,
artistic, or scientific significance for the education of the public. The
purpose can also depend on one’s point of view. To a family looking for
entertainment on a Sunday afternoon, a trip to a local history museum or large
city art museum could be a fun, and enlightening way to spend the day. To city
leaders, a healthy museum community can be seen as a gauge of the economic
health of a city, and a way to increase the sophistication of its inhabitants.
To a museum professional, a museum might be seen as a way to educate the public
about the museum’s mission, such as civil rights or environmentalism. Museums
are, above all, storehouses of knowledge.
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Berlin museum,
British museum & Indian museum.
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2. ZOO
A zoo (short for zoological park or zoological garden, and also called a menagerie) is a facility in which animals are confined within
enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred. The
term zoological garden refers to zoology,
the study of animals, a term deriving from theGreek zoon (“animal") and logos,( "study"). The
abbreviation "zoo" was first used of the London Zoological Gardens,
which opened for scientific study in 1828 and to the public in 1847.[1] The number of major animal
collections open to the public around the world now exceeds 1,000, around 80
percent of them in cities.
Zoo animals live in enclosures that often attempt to replicate their
natural habitats or behavioral
patterns, for the benefit of both the animals and visitors. Nocturnal animals are often
housed in buildings with a reversed light-dark cycle, i.e. only dim white or
red lights are on during the day so the animals are active during visitor
hours, and brighter lights on at night when the animals sleep. Special climate
conditions may be created for animals living in extreme environments, such as
penguins. Special enclosures for birds, mammals, insects, reptiles, fish,
and other aquatic life forms have also been developed. Some zoos have walk-through
exhibits where visitors enter enclosures of non-aggressive species, such as lemurs, marmosets,
birds, lizards,
and turtles.
Visitors are asked to keep to paths and avoid showing or eating foods that the
animals might snatch.
Different zoo
3.BOTANICAL GARDEN
A botanical garden (or botanic garden) is a garden dedicated to the collection,
cultivation and display of a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical
names. It may contain specialist plant collections such as cacti and succulent
plants, herb
gardens, plants from particular parts of the world, and so on;
there may be greenhouses, shadehouses,
again with special collections such as tropical plants, alpine
plants, or other exotic
plants. Visitor services at a botanical garden might include
tours, educational displays, art
exhibitions, book rooms, open-air theatrical and musical
performances, and other entertainment.
Botanical
gardens are often run by universities or other scientific research
organizations, and often have associated herbaria and research
programmes in plant
taxonomy or
some other aspect of botanical science. In principle, their role is to maintain
documented collections of living plants for the purposes of scientific
research, conservation, display, and education, although this will depend on
the resources available and the special interests pursued at each particular
garden.
Botanical gardens
4. AGRIFARMS
Agriculture, also called farming or husbandry, is the cultivation of
animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, biofuel and other
products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key development in the rise
of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species
created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization. The study
of agriculture is known as agricultural science. . Agriculture generally
speaking refers to human activities, although it is also observed in certain
species of ant and termite. The word agriculture is the English adaptation of
Latin agricultūra, from ager, "a field”, and cultūra,
"cultivation" in the strict sense of "tillage of the soil”.
Thus, a literal reading of the word yields "tillage of fields".
The history of agriculture dates back thousands of years, and its development has been driven and defined by greatly different climates, cultures, and technologies. However, all farming generally relies on techniques to expand and maintain the lands that are suitable for raising domesticated species. For plants, this usually requires some form of irrigation, although there are methods of dry land farming; pastoral herding on rangeland is still the most common means of raising livestock. In the developed world, industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture has become the dominant system of modern farming, although there is growing support for sustainable agriculture .e.g. permaculture or organic agriculture.
The history of agriculture dates back thousands of years, and its development has been driven and defined by greatly different climates, cultures, and technologies. However, all farming generally relies on techniques to expand and maintain the lands that are suitable for raising domesticated species. For plants, this usually requires some form of irrigation, although there are methods of dry land farming; pastoral herding on rangeland is still the most common means of raising livestock. In the developed world, industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture has become the dominant system of modern farming, although there is growing support for sustainable agriculture .e.g. permaculture or organic agriculture.
AGRIFARMS
5. HOSPITALS
A hospital is a
health care institution providing patient treatment with specialised staff and equipment.
Hospitals are usually funded
by the public sector, by health
organisations (for profit or nonprofit), health insurance companies, or charities, including direct charitable donations.
Historically, hospitals were often founded and funded by religious orders or charitable individuals and leaders.[1] Today, hospitals are largely staffed by
professional physicians, surgeons, and nurses, whereas in the past, this work was usually performed by the founding
religious orders or by volunteers. However, there are various Catholic religious orders,
such as the Alexians and the Bon Secours
Sisters, which still focus on
hospital ministry today, as well as several Christian denominations, including
the Methodists and Lutherans, which run hospitals.[2] In accord with the original meaning of the
word, hospitals were originally "places of hospitality", and this
meaning is still preserved in the names of some institutions such as the Royal
Hospital Chelsea,
established in 1681 as a retirement and nursing home for veteran soldiers.
HOSPITALS
6 .KRISHI BHAVAN
Federal and state departments responsible for farming, food and agriculture policies.Policies address issues such as natural resource protection, food safety and tools to help farmers. Agriculture is the basis of our national
prosperity. It is the substratum of all other interests; and the degree of
advancement which marks the progress of our country and its people in wealth,
enterprise, education, and substantial independence, is measured by the
prosperity of its rural interests. It is one of those arts which, from the
earliest periods, have been deservedly held in the highest estimation. One of
the first injunctions upon our original progenitor, after his expulsion from
the Garden of Eden, was he should "till that the soil."
KRISHI
BHAVAN
7. RESEARCH CENTERS
A research institute is an establishment endowed for doing research. Research institutes may specialize in basic research or
may be oriented to applied research. Although the term often implies natural science research, there are also many research
institutes in the social sciences as well, especially for sociological and historical research purposes.
In the early
medieval period, several astronomical observatories were built in the Islamic
world. The first of these was the 9th-century Baghdad observatory built during the time of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun, though the most famous were the 13th-century Maragheh
observatory,
15th-century Observatory. The
earliest research institute in Europe was Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg complex on the island of Hven, a
16th-century astronomical laboratory set up to make highly accurate
measurements of the stars. In the United States there are numerous notable research
institutes including Bell Labs, The Scripps Research Institute, Beckman Institute, and SRI International. Hughes Aircraft used a research institute structure for its
organizational model which makes
sense given its heavy emphasis on creativity and innovation.
RESEARCH CENTERS
CONCLUSION
Some man-made resources are nearly essential to modern human life,
such as medicines. Without medicines, vaccines and similar man-made chemicals,
many people would become sick and die. Others are not essential, and only exist
because people want them. Some man-made resources reflect their natural
counterparts. For example, many lakes and rivers are man-made structures. While
the water and fish inside them are natural resources, the impoundment would not
exist without humans to construct it. Such resources offer food and recreation
opportunities for many people. Humans also create farms, which are man-made
resources, even though the plants and soil are natural resources. Simple man-made
resources, such as paper, are often combined to form more man-made resources,
such as books, plates or wallpaper.
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