This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 10 > Geography > Resources And Development > Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Resources And Development – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Resources And Development Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Give examples of community owned resources?Give examples of community owned resources? A) Plots, houses. B) Public parks, playgrounds, grazing grounds, burial grounds. C) Energy, water, forests. D) Flora and fauna, fisheries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Public parks, playgrounds, grazing grounds, burial grounds. 2. How much percentage of forests are interested he country according to the national forest policy A) 37%. B) 31%. C) 27%. D) 33%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 33%. 3. Where are Abiotic Resources obtained from? A) Minerals and fossil fuels. B) Reproduced by physical, chemical or mechanical processes. C) Composed of non-living things. D) From biosphere and have life such as human beings, flora and fauna, fisheries, livestock. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Composed of non-living things. 4. Which one of the following is not a factor affecting soil formation A) Time. B) Soil texture. C) Organic matter. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soil texture. 5. Where are Biotic Resources obtained from? A) From biosphere and have life such as human beings, flora and fauna, fisheries, livestock. B) Composed of non-living things. C) Reproduced by physical, chemical or mechanical processes. D) Minerals and fossil fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) From biosphere and have life such as human beings, flora and fauna, fisheries, livestock. 6. Individual, community, national and international red are classified on the basis of A) Exhaustibility. B) Origin. C) Ownership. D) Status of development. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ownership. 7. Black soil is ideal for growing A) Cotton. B) Maize. C) Rice. D) Wheat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cotton. 8. In which of the following States is black soil found? A) Jammu and Kashmir. B) Gujrat. C) Rajasthan. D) Jharkhand. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rajasthan. 9. Individual, community, national and international resources are classified on the basis of A) Origin. B) Status of development. C) Ownership. D) Exhaustibility. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ownership. 10. Which one of the following is the main cause of land degradation in Punjab? A) Over-irrigation. B) Overgrazing. C) Deforestation. D) Intensive Cultivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Over-irrigation. 11. Which of the following is the root cause for resource depletion at global level, according to Gandhiji? A) Conservation of resources. B) Use of resources. C) Greedy and selfish individuals and exploitative nature of modern technology. D) Backward technology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greedy and selfish individuals and exploitative nature of modern technology. 12. All those things which are composed of non-living things are called ..... resources. For example, rocks and metals. A) Biotic. B) Abiotic. C) Potential. D) Actual. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abiotic. 13. In which year first Earth Summit was held in Rio De Janeiro? A) 1992. B) 1922. C) 1982. D) 1999. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1992. 14. Land currently Ploughed and cultivated with crops is called Arable land A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. Which of the following types of resources is iron ore? A) Flow. B) Renewable. C) Non-renewable. D) Biotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Non-renewable. 16. How much area of land in India is plain? A) 62%. B) 53%. C) 58%. D) 43%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 43%. 17. Which of the following features is associated with soil erosion? A) Gullies. B) Bad Land. C) Sheet Erosion. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 18. The resources can be conserved byA)RecyclingB)ReusingC)Reducing consumptionD)All of these A) A. B) C. C) B. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) D. 19. Being a tropical country, India has enormous possibilities of tapping solar energy. Choose the correct way to popularize its maximum use. A) Making people aware about renewable energy resources. B) Use of rooftop solar panels. C) Solar street lighting. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 20. Which is not one of the ways to control land degradation? A) Shelter belts. B) Deforestation. C) Control of overgrazing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deforestation. 21. India's territorial water extends upto a distance of: A) 12 nautical miles. B) 12 km. C) 200 nautical miles. D) 19.2 nautical miles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 12 nautical miles. 22. Soil formed by intense leaching is- A) Desert. B) Alluvial soil. C) Red soil. D) Laterite soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Laterite soil. 23. Laterite soil is very useful for growing: A) Rice, wheat, and mustard. B) Tea, coffee, and cashew nut. C) Pulses, sugarcane, and resin. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tea, coffee, and cashew nut. 24. The newer alluvium deposits during flood they are the area of the most fertile soil A) Khader. B) Part. C) Letrite soil. D) Red soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Khader. 25. How many types of soil found in our country? A) 5. B) 10. C) 6. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 6. 26. Careful use of resources so as to save for the future generation is known as A) Availability. B) Preservation. C) Conservation. D) Sustainability. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sustainability. 27. Mountains account for ..... % of the total surface area of our country and ensure perennial flow of some rivers! A) 40%. B) 30%. C) 20%. D) 33%. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 30%. 28. Rio De Janeiro Earth Summit was held in ..... year A) 1994. B) 1998. C) 1992. D) 1991. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1992. 29. The process of transformation of things available in ourenvironment involves an interactive relationship between? A) Nature, technology and institution. B) Human. C) Pollution. D) Resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature, technology and institution. 30. Ploughing along the contour lines to decelerate the flow of water down the slopes is called: A) Strip cropping. B) (b) Sheet erosion. C) Contour ploughing. D) Terrace cultivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Contour ploughing. 31. Which one of the following is not an example of individual resources? A) Farm lands. B) Wells. C) Houses. D) Burial ground. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Burial ground. 32. The use of the land is determined by three of the following physical factors! Identify the odd one out A) Topography. B) Climate. C) Soil types. D) Technology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Technology. 33. Erosion severely affected by gullies (an acute soil erosion) is called Ravines. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 34. ..... is not a biotic resource. A) Humans. B) Fisheries. C) Rocks. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rocks. 35. What was the main contribution of the Brundtland Commission Report, 1987? A) Sustainable development as means for resource conservation. B) Advocated resource conservation for the first time. C) Presented Gandhian philosophy. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sustainable development as means for resource conservation. 36. Which layer from soil profile is less in amount A) All layers. B) Lowest Layer. C) Topmost layer. D) All layers constitute very less amount. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Topmost layer. 37. Which of the following has resulted from over exploitation of resources? A) Global warming. B) Ozone depletion. C) Land degradation. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 38. Why is the red soil is red in colour? A) It is rich in humus. B) It is derived from volcanic region. C) It is rich in iron compounds. D) It is rich in potash. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is rich in iron compounds. 39. Problem of land and soil degradation can be managed through A) Deforestation and mining. B) Afforestation and terraced farming. C) Terraced farming and quarrying. D) Mining and shelter belts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Afforestation and terraced farming. 40. Fossil fuels are examples of which of the following types of resources? A) Biological. B) Non-renewable. C) Renewable. D) Flow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Non-renewable. 41. Under which of the following types of resources can tidal energy be put? A) Non-recyclable. B) Replenished. C) Human-made. D) Abiotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Replenished. 42. Soil can be conserved by A) Planting of trees. B) Cutting of trees. C) Over grazing. D) Excessive mining. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Planting of trees. 43. How. Many economic zones are there in India A) Two. B) Five. C) One. D) Ten. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Five. 44. Land degradation due to over irrigation can be seen in the states of A) Punjab and haryana. B) Assam and orrisa. C) Mizoram and meghalaya. D) Orsras and Karnatka. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Punjab and haryana. 45. Area down more than once in an agricultural year plus net sown area is known as A) Fallow lands. B) Gross cropped area. C) Cropped area. D) Grazing land. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gross cropped area. 46. Agenda 21 is the declaration signed by world leaders in A) 1991. B) 1994. C) 1992. D) 1993. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1992. 47. Which report introduced the concept of sustainable development and advocated it as a means for resource conservation? A) Agenda 21 report. B) Brundtland Commission Report. C) Environmental Conservation report. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brundtland Commission Report. 48. The total degraded land in our country is: A) 133 million hectares. B) 130 million sq. km. C) 130 million hectares. D) 140 million hectares. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 130 million hectares. 49. What kind of resources are rocks and metals? A) Renewable. B) Abiotic. C) Inexhaustible. D) Biotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abiotic. 50. What are potential resources? A) Resources which can be renewed or reproduced. B) Resources which are found in a region, but have not been utilised. C) Resources which are surveyed and their quality and quantity have been determined for utilisation. D) Those things which are composed of non-living things. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resources which are found in a region, but have not been utilised. 51. The oceanic area upto ..... nautical miles is considered as territorial water. A) 10. B) 11. C) 12. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 12. 52. In June 1992, more than 100 heads of states met in Rio de Janeiro in A) Germany. B) London. C) Brazil. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brazil. 53. Area sown more than once in an agricultural year plus net sown area is known as: A) Gross cropped area. B) Net sown area. C) Forest cover. D) Waste land. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gross cropped area. 54. The oceanic resources beyond 200 km of the Exclusive Economic Zone can be termed as which of the following types of resource? A) International resources. B) Individual resources. C) National resources. D) Community owned resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) International resources. 55. Under which of the following type of resource can tidal energy be put? A) Abiotic. B) Human-made. C) Non Renewable. D) Replenishable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Replenishable. 56. Resources are free gifts of nature. True/False. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 57. The global ecological crises such as global warming, ozone layer depletion and environmental pollution are the results of ..... A) Accumulation of resources in a few hands. B) Judicious use of resources. C) Indiscriminate use of resources. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indiscriminate use of resources. 58. The soil commonly found in Duars, Chos and Terai is A) Laterite soil. B) Black soil. C) Arid Soil. D) Alluvial soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alluvial soil. 59. Under which type of resources can tidal energy be put? A) Replenishable. B) Human made. C) Abiotic. D) Non recyclable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Replenishable. 60. Which cold desert is relatively isolated from the rest of country? A) On the crook. B) Drawn. C) Ladakh. D) With. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ladakh. 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