This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 10 > Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Resources And Development – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Resources And Development Quiz 2 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Careful use of resources so as to save for the future generation is known as A) Conservation. B) Preservation. C) Sustainability. D) Availability. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sustainability. 2. Mountains account for ..... % of the total surface area of our country and ensure perennial flow of some rivers! A) 33%. B) 30%. C) 40%. D) 20%. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 30%. 3. Rio De Janeiro Earth Summit was held in ..... year A) 1998. B) 1992. C) 1991. D) 1994. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1992. 4. 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. 5. Ploughing along the contour lines to decelerate the flow of water down the slopes is called: A) Strip cropping. B) (b) Sheet erosion. C) Terrace cultivation. D) Contour ploughing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Contour ploughing. 6. 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. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. ..... is not a biotic resource. A) Humans. B) Fisheries. C) Rocks. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rocks. 10. 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. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. Why is the red soil is red in colour? A) It is rich in humus. B) It is rich in iron compounds. C) It is derived from volcanic region. D) It is rich in potash. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is rich in iron compounds. 14. 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. 15. Fossil fuels are examples of which of the following types of resources? A) Renewable. B) Flow. C) Biological. D) Non-renewable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Non-renewable. 16. Under which of the following types of resources can tidal energy be put? A) Replenished. B) Human-made. C) Abiotic. D) Non-recyclable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Replenished. 17. Soil can be conserved by A) Cutting of trees. B) Planting of trees. C) Over grazing. D) Excessive mining. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Planting of trees. 18. How. Many economic zones are there in India A) Five. B) One. C) Two. D) Ten. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Five. 19. 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. 20. 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. 21. Agenda 21 is the declaration signed by world leaders in A) 1991. B) 1992. C) 1993. D) 1994. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1992. 22. 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. 23. The total degraded land in our country is: 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. 24. What kind of resources are rocks and metals? A) Renewable. B) Biotic. C) Abiotic. D) Inexhaustible. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abiotic. 25. 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. 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