Manufacturing Industries Part 1

Agriculture and industry are:

• Exclusive to each other
• Not-exclusive to each other
• Not inter-related to each other
• None of the above

Air pollution is caused by

• Organic and inorganic industrial effluents discharged into rivers.
• Presence of high proportion of sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and air-borne particulate materials.
• Unwanted sounds from industries, generators, saws and pneumatic and electric drills.
• Overdrawing of groundwater.

At present the number of manufactures of passenger cars and multi-utility vehicles are:

• 5
• 10
• 15
• 20

Cotton textile industry is a

• Forest-based industry
• Key industry
• Agro-based industry
• None of the above

Cotton, jute, silk, sugar, etc. are examples of:

• Textile industries
• Heavy industries
• Agro based industries
• None of the above

Export of manufactured goods expands:

• Only trade and commerce
• Brings in much needed foreign exchange
• Both (a) and (b)
• None of the above

How can industrialisation assist in bringing in foreign exchange?

• Modernisation of agriculture
• Removing dependence on agriculture by providing alternative employment
• Export of manufactured goods
• Import of manufactured goods

In 2004, India produced over 600 million tonnes of:

• Steel
• Aluminium
• Copper
• All the above

In the 1950s China and India produced almost the same quantity of:

• Iron
• Manganese
• Copper
• Steel

In which of the following groups of cities were most of the manufacturing units located in the pre-independence period?

• Delhi, Kanpur, Moradabad
• Bangalore - Hyderabad
• Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai
• Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Amritsar.