This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 10 > Geography > Resources And Development > Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Resources And Development – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Resources And Development Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Arunachal Pradesh has abundance of ..... resources but lacks in ..... A) Water, Infrastructure. B) Cultural Heritage, Minerals. C) Infrastructure, Wind Energy. D) Minerals, water resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water, Infrastructure. 2. When was the national Forest policy introduced? A) 1916. B) 1978. C) 1836. D) 1952. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1952. 3. Which one of the Indian states overirrigation is the main causes for land degradation? A) Himachal Pradesh. B) Puujab. C) Jharkhand. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Puujab. 4. On the basis of origin resources are classified as:- A) Renewableand non-renewable. B) Individual, community, national and international. C) Biotic and abiotic. D) Potential, developed stock and reserves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biotic and abiotic. 5. In states like Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra ..... is one of the main reasons for land degradation. A) Overgrazing. B) Overmining. C) Overirrigation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Overgrazing. 6. A concerted effort has to be made for sustainable development. Choose appropriate steps for conserving our mineral resources for the future. A) Recycling of metals. B) Not disposing wastes. C) Using polythene bags. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Recycling of metals. 7. India has ..... percentage of land as flat or plain surface A) 47%. B) 43%. C) 27%. D) 30%. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 43%. 8. Land that is left without cultivation for one or less than one year A) Waste land. B) Barren land. C) Uncultivated land. D) Fallow land. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fallow land. 9. The running water cuts through the clayey soils and makes deep channels as A) Bad land. B) Gullies. C) Deltas. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gullies. 10. Resources which are surveyed and their quantity and quality have been determined for utilisation are known as: A) Reserves. B) Potential resources. C) Developed resource. D) Stock. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Developed resource. 11. What is land used for grazing cattle and livestock known as? A) Forests. B) Barren land. C) Pasture land. D) Fallow land. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pasture land. 12. Who is the author of the book "Small is Beautiful" A) Mahatma Gandhi. B) Schumacher. C) Karl Marx. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Schumacher. 13. Tick the resources classified on the basis of origin. A) Exhaustible and Non Exhaustible. B) Biotic and Abiotic. C) Individual and Community. D) Potential and Developed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biotic and Abiotic. 14. Which of the following soils are more common in piedmont plains such as Duars, Chos and Terai? A) Black soi. B) Alluvial soil. C) Laterite soil. D) Arid soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alluvial soil. 15. Which is not an example of community resource? A) Airport. B) Stadium. C) My own car. D) Parks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My own car. 16. The main cause of land degradation in Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh is: A) Over grazing. B) Deforestation. C) Mining. D) Over irrigation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Over irrigation. 17. Which one of the following soils is ideal for growing cotton A) Laterite soil. B) Mountains soil. C) Regur soil. D) Desert soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Regur soil. 18. The resources which can be renewed or reproduced by physical, chemical or mechanical processes are known as ..... resources. A) Biotic. B) Potential. C) Renewable. D) Non-Renewable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Renewable. 19. As per Ministry of Agriculture, 2010-2011 the culturable waste land is ..... A) 4%. B) 4.17%. C) 6.23%. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4%. 20. Resources planning is essential for ..... A) Exploitation. B) Environmental balance. C) Sustainable development. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sustainable development. 21. Erosion of the top soil when water flows as a sheet over large areas down the slope is called- A) Gully erosion. B) Badlands. C) Soil erosion. D) Sheet erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sheet erosion. 22. The total degraded land in our country is:(a) (b).(c) (d) A) 133 million hectares. B) 130 million sq. km. C) 140 million hectares. D) 130 million hectares. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 130 million hectares. 23. What are developed resources? A) Resources which are surveyed and their quality and quantity have been determined for utilisation. B) Resources which can be renewed or reproduced. C) Those things which are composed of non-living things. D) Resources which are found in a region, but have not been utilised. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Resources which are surveyed and their quality and quantity have been determined for utilisation. 24. Place this in the correct order:-(a) Subsoil weathered sand and clay(b) Unweathered parent bed rock(c) Top soil the upper soil layer(d) Substratum weathered parent rock material A) I.(d), ii.(c), iii.(b), iv.(a). B) I.(b), ii.(a), iii.(d, iv.(bc). C) I.(c) ii.(d), iii.(a), iv.(b). D) I.(a), ii.(b), iii.(c, iv.(d). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I.(c) ii.(d), iii.(a), iv.(b). 25. WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT A) That takes place without damaging the environment without compromising the needs of future generations. B) BALANCING THE USE OF RESOURCES. C) That takes place without damaging the environment. D) Ecological imbalance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That takes place without damaging the environment without compromising the needs of future generations. 26. Laterite soil is formed by the process of. A) Weathering. B) Deposition. C) Transportation. D) Leaching. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leaching. 27. Which of the following statement(s) is true for black soil?(i) It has larger proportion of clay.(ii) It can retain moisture for a long time.(iii) It develops cracks during summer which helps in aeration.(iv) Cotton grows best in this soil. A) (i) and (ii). B) (iii) and (iv). C) (i) and (iv). D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 28. Under which of the following types of resources can solar energy be categorized? A) Man-made resource. B) Flow resource. C) Non-recyclable resource. D) Exhaustible rersource. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flow resource. 29. Everything available in our environment which can be used to satisfy our needs, provided, it is technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally acceptable can be termed as 'Development' A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 30. Bangur soils have highest conccentration of ..... A) Sand. B) Water. C) Industrial effluents. D) Kankar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kankar. 31. India has got the right to mine which of these minerals from the bed of the Indian ocean that lies beyond the exclusive economic zone? A) Iron. B) Marble. C) Manganese. D) Bauxite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Manganese. 32. Which of the following soils has self-aeration capacity?(a) (b) (c) (d) A) Alluvial. B) Red soil. C) Black soil. D) Mountain soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Black soil. 33. In which of the following States is terrace cultivation practiced? A) Uttarakhand. B) Punjab. C) Jharkhand. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uttarakhand. 34. ..... soil has high water retaining capacity. A) Alluvial. B) Red. C) Black. D) Arid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Black. 35. Something that is technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally acceptable is known as A) Adaptation. B) Industries. C) Resources. D) Environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resources. 36. Which one of the following is a subset of stock? A) Reserve. B) National Resources. C) Potential Reources. D) Stock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reserve. 37. The lower horizons if the arid soil is occupied by kankar due time increasing A) Calcium content. B) Potash contant. C) Lime, potash and phosphorus contant. D) Phosphorus contant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Calcium content. 38. When and where was the first Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit held? A) 1992, Brazil. B) 1990, France. C) 1992, Switzerland. D) 1993, Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1992, Brazil. 39. Which is not a cause of soil erosion? A) Mining. B) Over grazing. C) Afforestation. D) Deforestation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Afforestation. 40. Coal, iron ore, petroleum, diesel etc. are the examples of A) Biotic resources. B) Renewable resources. C) Abiotic resources. D) Non-Renewable resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Non-Renewable resources. 41. Which state among the North-Eastern states has been fully surveyed for its land use? A) Assam. B) Arunachal Pradesh. C) Manipur. D) Tripura. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assam. 42. Yellow revolution refers to- A) Increased production of eggs. B) Increased production of pulses. C) Increased production offish. D) Increased production of oilseeds. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increased production of oilseeds. 43. Which of the following is essential for sustainable existence of all forms of life? A) Resource management. B) Resource planning. C) Resource generation. D) Resource extraction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resource planning. 44. What is Stock(in reference to resources)? A) Resources found in a region but have not been utilized. B) Resources having potential to satisfy our needs but are inaccessible by current technology. C) Resources which are surveyed and their quantity is detrmined for utilisation. D) Resources that can be utilized by us and accessible by current technology but are not utilized. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resources having potential to satisfy our needs but are inaccessible by current technology. 45. Resources which are found everywhere are known as A) Localised resources. B) Actual resources. C) Ubiquitous resources. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ubiquitous resources. 46. In Maharashtra and Saurashtra what type of Soil is mostly found? A) Arid Soil. B) Forest Soil. C) Red and Yellow Soil. D) Black Soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Black Soil. 47. What does resource planning in India involve? A) Matching the resource development plans with overall national development plans. B) Random distribution of resources without planning. C) Uncontrolled exploitation of resources. D) Resource hoarding by a select few. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Matching the resource development plans with overall national development plans. 48. Red soil develops on crystalline igneous rocks in areas of ..... in the ..... and ..... parts of the Deccan plateau A) Low rainfall, northern and southern. B) High rainfall, eastern and western. C) Low rainfall, eastern and southern. D) High rainfall, Western and northern. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Low rainfall, eastern and southern. 49. Give examples of National resources? A) Plots, houses. B) Public parks, playgrounds, grazing grounds, burial grounds. C) Oceanic resources. D) Minerals, water resources, forests, wildlife, land. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Minerals, water resources, forests, wildlife, land. 50. What is the percentage share of plains in the total land area? A) 0.27. B) 0.33. C) 0.23. D) 0.43. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 0.43. 51. The Club of Rome advocated resource conservation in the year A) 1968. B) 1965. C) 1967. D) 1966. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1968. 52. What is arrangement of soil in different layers or horizons known as? A) Soil Erosion. B) Soil Profile. C) Soil Composition. D) Soil Texture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soil Profile. 53. Solar and wind energy, water, forests and wildlife, etc. are examples of ..... resources. A) Renewable. B) Exhuely. C) Definite. D) Non-Renewable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Renewable. 54. Which of the following soils develop a reddish colour due to diffusion of iron? A) Alluvial soil. B) Black soil. C) Red Soil. D) Laterite soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red Soil. 55. Black soils are common in: A) Deccan trap region. B) Kashmir Valley. C) Ganga Valley. D) Northern Plains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deccan trap region. 56. Which type of resource is park? A) Potential resource. B) Non-renewable resource. C) Community owned resource. D) Individual resource. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Community owned resource. 57. Which of the following is not a measure for soil conservation? A) Terrace cultivation. B) Overdrawing of ground water. C) Shelter belts. D) Strip cropping. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Overdrawing of ground water. 58. Why do we need resource planning? A) Because of enormous diversity in the availability of resources. B) Because we need to think of future generations. C) We need to consider materials in the environment which have the potential to satisfy human needs. D) The need to collect materials and resources and then using them accordingly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because of enormous diversity in the availability of resources. 59. Area of older alluvium less fertile is called A) Desert soil. B) Khadar. C) Regur soil. D) Part. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Part. 60. Q (3):Afforestation and proper management is leading to increased land degradation in cities. ( A) True. B) False. C) None. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGeography QuizzesClass 10 QuizzesClass 10 Geography Chapter 1 Resources And Development Quiz 1Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Resources And Development Quiz 2Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Resources And Development Quiz 3Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Resources And Development Quiz 5Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Resources And Development Quiz 6Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Resources And Development Quiz 7 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books