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Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 4mins
Rio De Janeiro Earth Summit was held in __________ year
1998
1992
1991
1994
"There is enough for everybody's need and for anybody's greed". said by
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Narendra Modi
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 Resources
Stock
Developed resources
Reserves
Area sown more than once in an agricultural year plus net sown area is known as:
Net sown area
Forest cover
Waste land
Gross cropped area
In which of the following States mining has caused severe land degradation?
Gujarat
Jharkhand
Kerala
Uttaranchal
Which is the most common soil of Northern India?
Black soil
Laterite soil
Alluvial soil
Red soil
Red soil is mostly found in:
Parts of Jammu & Kashmir
Upper Ganga Plains
Eastern and Southern part of Deccan Plateau
None of the above
Black soil is also called:
Bangar
Khadar
Regur
Humus
Laterite soil is very useful for growing:
Rice, wheat and mustard
Tea, coffee and cashewnut
Pulses, sugarcane and resin
None of the above
Ploughing along the contour lines to decelerate the flow of water down the slopes is called:
Strip cropping
Sheet erosion
Contour ploughing
Terrace cultivation
Land that is left uncultivated for more than five agricultural years is called:
Pasture land
Culturable waste land
Barren land
Current fallow
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
Which one of the following type of resource is iron ore?
Renewable
Biotic
Flow
Non- Renewable
In which one of the following States is terrace cultivation practised?
Punjab
Plains of Uttar Pradesh
Haryana
Uttaranchal
Which one of the following is the main cause of land degradation in Punjab?
Intensive cultivation
Deforestation
Over-irrigation
Overgrazing
