This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 10 > Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Resources And Development – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Resources And Development Quiz 9 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which one of the following soils is ideal for growing cotton A) Regur soil. B) Laterite soil. C) Desert soil. D) Mountains soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Regur soil. 2. The resources which can be renewed or reproduced by physical, chemical or mechanical processes are known as ..... resources. A) Potential. B) Biotic. C) Renewable. D) Non-Renewable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Renewable. 3. Which one of the following types of resources is iron ore? A) Renewable. B) Flow. C) Biotic. D) Non-renewable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Non-renewable. 4. 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%. 5. 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. 6. Bhoodan-Gramdan movement was initiated by- A) Vinoba Bhave. B) Bal Gangadhartilak. C) Jawaharlal Nehru. D) Mahatma Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vinoba Bhave. 7. ICAR refers to- A) Indian Council of Agricultural Research. B) International Council of Aeronautical Research. C) Indian Council of Animal Research. D) International Commission for Agricultural Research. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indian Council of Agricultural Research. 8. 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. 9. Which one of the following is the main cause of land degradation in Punjab? (T A) Intensive cultivation. B) Deforestation. C) Over-irrigation. D) Overgrazing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Over-irrigation. 10. The total degraded land in our country is:(a) (b).(c) (d) A) 130 million hectares. B) 133 million hectares. C) 130 million sq. km. D) 140 million hectares. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 130 million hectares. 11. 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. 12. 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.(c) ii.(d), iii.(a), iv.(b). B) I.(a), ii.(b), iii.(c, iv.(d). C) I.(d), ii.(c), iii.(b), iv.(a). D) I.(b), ii.(a), iii.(d, iv.(bc). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I.(c) ii.(d), iii.(a), iv.(b). 13. WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT A) BALANCING THE USE OF RESOURCES. B) Ecological imbalance. C) That takes place without damaging the environment. D) That takes place without damaging the environment without compromising the needs of future generations. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) That takes place without damaging the environment without compromising the needs of future generations. 14. Laterite soil is formed by the process of. A) Transportation. B) Weathering. C) Leaching. D) Deposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leaching. 15. 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. 16. Which among the following is a renewable resource? A) Solar energy. B) Tidal energy. C) Wind energy. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 17. Materials in the environment that have the potential to satisfy human needs but human beings do not have the appropriate technology to access them are called: A) Potential resource. B) Stock. C) Developed resource. D) Reserves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stock. 18. Under which of the following types of resources can solar energy be categorized? A) Flow resource. B) Man-made resource. C) Non-recyclable resource. D) Exhaustible rersource. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flow resource. 19. Which one of the following type of of the resources is iron ore? A) Renewable. B) Biotic. C) Non renewable. D) Non biotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Non renewable. 20. 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. 21. Area sown more than once in an agricultural year plus net sown area is called ..... A) Net sown area. B) Gross cropped area. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gross cropped area. 22. Bangur soils have highest conccentration of ..... A) Sand. B) Water. C) Industrial effluents. D) Kankar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kankar. 23. 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. 24. Resources which are surveyed and their quality and quantity have been determined for utilisation are:- A) Potential resource. B) Individual resource. C) Developed resource. D) Stock. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Developed resource. 25. Which of the following soils has self-aeration capacity?(a) (b) (c) (d) A) Alluvial. B) Red soil. C) Black soil. D) Mountain soil. 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