This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 10 > Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Resources And Development – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Resources And Development Quiz 5 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Resources that take long geological time for their formation are called: A) Renewable resources. B) Reserve. C) Community resources. D) Non-renewable resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Non-renewable resources. 2. How much desired area is required for forest in our country? A) 0.16. B) 0.2. C) 0.232. D) 0.33. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 0.33. 3. How can resources be classified on basis of:Origin A) Renewable and non-renewable. B) Individual. C) Potential, developed. D) Biotic and abiotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biotic and abiotic. 4. Identify the soil with the help of the following features(i) Red to brown in colour(ii) Sandy in texture and saline in nature.(iii) Lacks humus and moisture A) Arid soil. B) Black soil. C) Red soil. D) Alluvial soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arid soil. 5. Which is the most common soil of Northern India? A) Black soil. B) Laterite soil. C) Alluvial soil. D) Red soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alluvial soil. 6. How can resources be classified on basis of:exhaustibility A) Renewable and non-renewable. B) Individual, community, national and international. C) Potential, developed stock and reserves. D) Biotic and abiotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Renewable and non-renewable. 7. Fossil fuels are examples of non-recyclable resources. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. The land which is left uncultivated for more than five agricultural years is called ..... A) Grazing land. B) Fallow land. C) Culturable wasteland. D) Barren and waste land. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Culturable wasteland. 9. Which factor is mainly responsible for maximum land degradation in India? A) Resource planning. B) Wind erosion. C) Overgrazing. D) Over irrigation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Overgrazing. 10. Which soil is known as black cotton Soil A) Red soil. B) Arid soil. C) Mountain soil. D) Black soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Black soil. 11. What is a resource? A) Extracts from nature. B) Man Made products. C) Extracts from environment-technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally acceptable. D) Any thing from which a product can be manufactured. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extracts from environment-technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally acceptable. 12. In which of the following state is black soil found? A) Jammu and Kashmir. B) Uttar Pradesh. C) Rajasthan. D) Gujarat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gujarat. 13. In 1974, Gandhian philosophywas once again presented by Schumacherin his book ..... A) Our Common Future. B) Beautiful world. C) Green Earth. D) Small is Beautiful. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Small is Beautiful. 14. Which one of the following method is most appropriate to check soil erosion on steep slopes? A) Shelter belts. B) Mulching. C) Terrace cultivation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Terrace cultivation. 15. Everything available in our environment to satisfy our needs is known as A) Technology. B) Resource. C) Natural Vegetation. D) Minerals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resource. 16. Waste land includes ..... A) Agricultural, forested, and natural landscapes. B) Clean, pristine, and habitable areas. C) C. rocky, arid and desert areas. D) Urban, industrial, and residential zones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) C. rocky, arid and desert areas. 17. Which one of the following statements is incorrect as regards to commercial farming? A) Use of heavy doses of modern inputs. B) Family members are involved in growing crops. C) Crops are grown for sale. D) Practised on large land holdings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Family members are involved in growing crops. 18. How much percentage of land is plain in India A) 41%. B) 45%. C) 43%. D) 47%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 43%. 19. Which of the following method is used in the Himalayas for the soil conservation? A) Terrace Farming. B) Strip Cropping. C) Shelter Belts. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Terrace Farming. 20. On the basis of status of development resources are classified as:- A) Biotic and abiotic. B) Renewableand non-renewable. C) Individual, community, national and international. D) Potential, developed stock and reserves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Potential, developed stock and reserves. 21. Mountains account for ..... per cent of the total surface area of our country and ensure perennial flow of somerivers. A) 30. B) 20. C) 40. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 30. 22. Which one of the following crops is commercial crop in one state while it is subsistence crop in another state? A) Wheat. B) Rice. C) Sugarcane. D) Rubber. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rice. 23. Which of the following is not classified on the basis of status of development? A) Potential resources. B) Renewable resources. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renewable resources. 24. What are the 3 rivers responsible for formation of Alluvial Soil? A) The Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra. B) Indus, Ganga, Godavari. C) Brahmaputra, nile, GODAVARI. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra. 25. Which one of the following is not a human reason of soil erosion? A) Washing down of top soil by fast running water. B) Mass cutting of trees. C) Wrong agriculture practices. D) Extraction of minerals found under surface. 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