SOCIAL SCIENCE -GEOGRAPHY-Resource and Development -PAPER 1

Which one of the following soils is ideal for growing cotton?

• Regur soil

• Laterite soil

• Desert soil

• Mountainous soil

Soil is formed by the process of

• Denudation

• Gradation

• Weathering

• Erosion

Land left without cultivation for one or less than one agricultural year is called

• Culturable waste land

• Current fallow land

• Waste land

• None of the above

Red soil is reddish in colour due to:

• high clay content

• presence of kankar nodules in the subsoil

• diffusion of iron in igneous and metamorphic rocks

• high moisture content

Resources which are surveyed and their quantity and quality have been determined for utilisation are known as

• Potential resources

• Stock

• Developed resources

• Reserves

Which one of the following statements is correct as regard to international resources?

• Resources which are regulated by international institutions.

• Resources which lie beyond the territorial waters.

• Resources which are found along the international frontier.

• Resources which are not yet developed.

Resources which are found in a region, but have not been utilised

• Renewable

• Developed

• National

• Potential

Which one of the following statements is true about the term resources?[

• Resources are free gifts of nature.

• They are the functions of human activities.

• All those things which are found in nature.

• Things which cannot be used to fulfill our needs.

The red soil is red in colour because

• it is rich in humus.

• it is rich in iron compounds.

• it is derived from volcanic origin.

• it is rich in potash.

Which one of the following type of resource is iron ore?

• Renewable

• Biotic

• Flow

• Non-renewable