MCQ Question for Class 10 Geography Chapter 1
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Resources and Development MCQs|MCQ Questions for Class 10 Social Science Resources and Development with Answers:-
1. Materials in the environment which have the potential to satisfy human needs but human beings do not have appropriate technology to access them are called:
(a) Potential resource
(b) Stock
(c) Developed resource
(d) Reserves
Answer: (b) Stock
2. 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
Answer: B. Resources which are found in a region, but have not been utilised
3. Which one of the following type of resource is iron ore?
(a) Renewable
(b) Biotic
(c) Flow
(d) Non-renewable
Ans: (d) Non-renewable
4. Which one of the following is not the community owned resource?
(a) Grazing grounds
(b) Burial grounds
(c) Village ponds
(d) Privately owned house
Answer: (d) Privately owned house
5. In which one of the following states is terrace cultivation practised?
(a) Punjab
(b) Plains of Uttar Pradesh
(c) Haryana
(d) Uttarakhand
Ans: (d) Uttarakhand
6. Area sown more than once in an agricultural year plus net sown area is known as:
(n) Net sown area
(b) Forest cover
(c) Waste land
(d) Gross cropped area
Answer: (d) Gross cropped area
7. Which human activities have led to land degradation?
A. deforestation, overgrazing
B. agriculture
C. Buildings and making roads
D. Factories and industry
Answer: A. deforestation, overgrazing
8. What is the percentage share of plains in the total land area?
(a) 43%
(b) 23%
(c) 33%
(d) 27%
Answer: (a) 43%
9. Which among the following is a type of resources classified on the basis of exhaustibility?
(a) Biotic and abiotic
(b) Renewable and non-renewable
(c) National and individual
(d) Potential and reserves
Answer: (b) Renewable and non-renewable
10. What is the other name of old Alluvial Soil?
Bangar
Khadar
Kanker
Arid
Ans: Bangar
11. Red soil is reddish in colour due to:
(a) high clay content
(b) presence of kankar nodules in the subsoil
(c) diffusion of iron in igneous and metamorphic rocks
(d) high moisture content
Answer: (c) diffusion of iron in igneous and metamorphic rocks
12. Where are the laterite soils found in India?
A. middle Ganga plain
B. Saurashtra, Malwa
C. Western Ghats region of Maharashtra, Odisha,
D. Madhya Pradesh
Answer: C. Western Ghats region of Maharashtra, Odisha
13. There is enough for everybody’s need and not for any body’s greed,’’ who among the following has given the above statement?
(a) Vinoba Bhave
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Atal Behari Vajpayee
Answer: (b) Mahatma Gandhi
14. Fossil fuels are examples of which of the following types of resources?
(a) Renewable
(b) Flow
(c) Biological
(d) Non-renewable
Answer: (d) Non-renewable
15. India’s territorial water extends upto a distance of:
(a) 12 km
(b) 12 nautical miles
(c) 19.2 miles
(d) 200 nautical miles
Answer: (b) 12 nautical miles
16. From which Five Year Plan has India made concerted efforts for achieving the goals of resource planning ?
(a) First Five Year Plan
(b) Fifth Five Year Plan
(c) Annual Plans
(d) Tenth Five Year Plan
Answer: (a) First Five Year Plan
17. Land that is left uncultivated for more than five agricultural years is called:
(a) Pasture land
(b) Culturable waste land
(c) Barren land
(d) Current fallow
Answer: (b) Culturable waste land
18. Which of the following method will not help in soil conservation?
(a) Contour ploughing
(b) Strip cropping
(c) Creating shelter belts
(d) Ploughing up and down the slopes
Answer: (d) Ploughing up and down the slopes
19. Which of the following conservation strategies do not directly involve community participation?
(a) Joint forest management
(b) Chipko Movement
(c) Beej Bachao Andolan
(d) Demarcation of Wildlife sanctuaries
Answer: (d) Demarcation of Wildlife sanctuaries
20. What are the factors responsible for soil formation?
A. Agriculture
B. Forests
C. Desert denudation
D. change in temperature, actions of running water, wind and glaciers, activities of decomposers
Answer: D. change in temperature, actions of running water, wind and glaciers, activities of decomposers
21. Which one of the following states mostly has laterite soil?
(a) Uttar Pradesh
(b) Bihar
(c) Rajasthan
(d) Meghalaya
Answer: (d) Meghalaya
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