GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Uneven distribution of natural resources often leads to countries trading with one another. Explanation: As resources in the world are not distributed equally many countries in order to have to balance the allocation of resources trade with each other in terms of exports and imports.

Detailed explanation-2: -Natural resources are things people use from nature like fossil fuels, water and minerals. Earth’s natural resources are unevenly distributed across the globe. This can be explained by geological process like the movement of tectonic plates, erosion and volcanic activity.

Detailed explanation-3: -Trade can help to address problems related to the unequal geographical distribution of a natural resource when it is the goods embodying that resource that are exchanged rather than the resource itself – as is the case with trade in “virtual water”.

Detailed explanation-4: -Minerals are unequally distributed on earth.