RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT

What is the contribution of the shelter belts?

• A. To conserve water
  
  

• B. To conserve soil

• C. to the stabilisation of sand dunes

• D. To maintain forests

The running water cuts through the clayey soils and makes deep channels known as …………….

• trenches
• ditches
• gullies
• ravines

The processes of ………… and ………, go on simultaneously and generally there is a balance between the two.

• Soil formation and erosion

• digestion and excretion
• evaporation and condensation
• mitosis and meiosis

Which important river systems have set the Alluvial soil?

• Amazon, Nile, Yangtze
• Danube, Mekong, Volga
• Mississippi, Yukon, Rhine
• Ganges, Brahmaputra, Indus

What is the total geographical area of India?

• 3.287 million square kilometers
• 1.765 million square kilometers
• 4.532 million square kilometers
• 2.987 million square kilometers

Waste land includes………………………

• agricultural, forested, and natural landscapes
• clean, pristine, and habitable areas
• C. rocky, arid and desert areas

• urban, industrial, and residential zones

What are fallow Lands?

• Current fallow-(left without cultivation for one or less than one agricultural year)

• Fallow lands are lands that are only used for grazing livestock.
• Fallow lands are lands that are always barren and cannot be cultivated.
• Fallow lands are lands used for growing crops year-round.

What does resource planning in India involve?

• Matching the resource development plans with overall national development plans

• Random distribution of resources without planning
• Uncontrolled exploitation of resources
• Resource hoarding by a select few

What was the main contribution of the Brundtland Commission Report, 1987?

• Promotion of genetically modified organisms
• Advocacy for nuclear disarmament
• Popularization of the concept of sustainable development
• Introduction of the Kyoto Protocol

Which of the following is the root cause for resource depletion at global level, according to Gandhiji?

• Greedy and selfish individuals and exploitative nature of modern technology.

• Lack of technological advancements
• Climate change
• Alien invasion