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WorksheetsG-10 Resource and Development - Quiz 2
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
Answer the following questions in about 30 words:
What steps can be taken to control soil erosion in the hilly areas?
Answer the following questions in about 30 words:
What are biotic and abiotic resources? Give some examples.
Answer the following questions in about 120 words:
How have technical and economic development led to more consumption of resources?
Resources which are found in a region, but have not been utilised.
Renewable
Developed
National
Potential
Which of the following factors involves the transformation of things into a resource ?
(i) Physical environment
(ii) Technology
(iii) Human beings
(iv) Institutions
(i) and (ii)
(ii) and (iii)
(i) and (iv)
All of above
Renewable resources are those
which cannot be renewed
which are accessible
which are developed
which are renewed by physical, chemical or mechanical processes.
Which one of the following is not a community resource ?
Public parks
A library
A car
A community hall
Territorial waters of India extends to
10 Nautical miles
15 Nautical miles
12 Nautical miles
1900 kilometres
Find out which one of the following is a stock?
Biofuels
Coal
Solar energy
Hydro-electricity
The first International Earth Summit was held in
Geneva
New York
Japan
Rio de Janeiro
“There is enough for everybody’s need but not for anybody’s greed”. Who said this ?
Jawahar Lai Nehru
Atal Bihari Vajpai
M. K. Gandhi
Sunder Lai Bhauguna
The area brought under cultivation in a year is called …………….
Fallow land
Cultivable
Net sown area
Gross sown area
I am the most widespread soil, covering the Northern Plains and Eastern Coastal Plains-who am I ?
Black soil
Forest soil
Red soil
Alluvial soil
Resources which are non-renewable but can be recycled are called
Renewable resources
Non-renewable resources
Recyclable resources
Biotic resources
The most widespread relief feature of India is
Mountains
Forests
Plains
Plateaus
The current net sown area of India in 2002-03 is
45 percent
43.4 percent
50 percent
48 percent
The state having maximum net sown area in India is ……………
Jammu and Kashmir
Uttar Pradesh
Tamil Nadu
Punjab
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
The present per cent of area under forests is (2002 – 03)
18 percent
22.57 percent
19 percent
11 percent
The factor responsible for maximum land degradation is ………………
Human activities
Wind
Salinity
Soil erosion
