Classify the Following Resources as Exhaustible and Inexhaustible Natural Resources: Wind, Petroleum, Coal, Natural Gas, Sunlight, Forests, Water, and Minerals

Answer: 

Exhaustible Natural Resources – These are those energy sources that will run out in a few hundred years.

Inexhaustible Natural resources – Inexhaustible energy sources are ones that will not deplete in the future. This is limitless. Biomass is one of the limitless energy sources.

From the list above:

Gasoline, coal, natural gas, wood, and minerals are examples of Exhaustible natural resources.

Wind, sunshine, and water are inexhaustible natural resources.