Resources and development

What are resources?

• anything in the environment

• anything in the environment useful to human beings

• anything in the environment that satisfies our needs provided it is technologically accessible,culturally acceptable and economically feasible.

• can be extracted anyway

Tick the resources classified on the basis of origin.

• Exhaustible and Non Exhaustible

• Biotic and Abiotic

• Individual and Community

• Potential and Developed

Minerals and fossil fuel are the examples of

• Biotic resource

• Individual resource

• Potential resource

• Non- Renewable resource

The state of Jharkhand, Madhyapradesh and Chattishgarh are rich in the deposits of

• Manganese

• Coal

• Bauxite

• Iron Ore

Land that is left without cultivation for one or less than one year

• waste land

• barren land

• uncultivated land

• fallow land

India has ________ percentage of land as flat or plain surface

• 43%

• 27%

• 30%

• 47%

Careful use of resources so as to save for the future generation is known as

• conservation

• preservation

• sustainability

• availability

Problem of land and soil degradation can be managed through

• deforestation and mining

• afforestation and terraced farming

• terraced farming and quarrying

• mining and shelter belts

Cause of land degradation in Chattishgarh, Odisha, Jhrakhand and Madhya Pradesh.

• Agriculture

• Quarrying

• Mining

• Soil Erosion

The soil commonly found in Duars, Chos and Terai is

• Laterite soil

• Alluvial soil

• Black soil

• Arid Soil