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Natural resources are substances and materials that occur in nature and can be used by people without being made by humans. Minerals, water, and forests fit this idea because they exist in the environment and can be harvested or used with minimal processing. Social networks and policies are human-made systems that organize society, not physical materials from nature. Prices and markets describe how resources are bought and sold, not the resources themselves. Electronic devices are manufactured goods created from natural resources, but they are not natural resources in themselves.