Resources and Development Part 2

Materials in the environment which have the potential to satisfy human needs but human beings do not have appropriate technology to access them are called:

• Potential resource
• Stock
• Developed resource
• Reserves

On the basis of ownership, plantations can be better considered as which of the following types of resources?

• Individual resource
• Community owned resource
• National resource
• International resource

One of the following which does not check land degradation-

• control on overgrazing
• creating shelter belts
• deforestation
• afforestation

Ploughing along the contour lines to decelerate the flow of water down the slopes is called:

• Strip cropping
• Sheet erosion
• Contour ploughing
• Terrace cultivation

Red soil is mostly found in:

• Parts of Jammu & Kashmir
• Upper Ganga Plains
• Eastern and Southern part of Deccan Plateau
• 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 that take long geological time for their formation are called:

• Renewable resources
• Reserve
• Community resources
• Non-renewable resources

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

• developed resources
• stock
• international resources
• potential resources

Soil formed by intense leaching is:

• alluvial soil
• red soil
• laterite soil
• desert soil

The alluvial soil consists of

• sand
• silt
• clay
• all of the above