Class 10 Social Science MCQs Chapter 1
Resource and Development
Part 1 :
1. Which one of the
following type of resource is iron ore? (Textbook)
(a) Renewable
(b) Biotic
(c) Flow
(d) Non-renewable
Answer
Answer: d
2. Under which of the
following type of resource can tidal energy be put? (Textbook)
(a) Replenishable
(b) Human-made
(c) Abiotic
(d) Non-renewable
Answer
Answer: a
3. Which one of the
following is the main cause of land degradation in Punjab? (Textbook)
(a) Intensive cultivation
(b) Deforestation
(c) Over-irrigation
(d) Overgrazing
Answer
Answer: c
4. In which one of the
following States is terrace cultivation practised? (Textbook)
(a) Punjab
(b) Plains of Uttar Pradesh
(c) Haryana
(d) Uttaranchal
Answer
Answer: d
5. In which of the
following States is black soil found? (Textbook)
(a) Jammu & Kashmir
(b) Gujarat
(c) Rajasthan
(d) Jharkhand
Answer
Answer: b
6. What percentage of our
land should be under forest according to the National Forest Policy (1952)?
(a) 33
(b) 22.5
(c) 31
(d) 30
Answer
Answer: a
7. 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
Answer: b
8. 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
Answer: b
9. Resources that take
long geological time for their formation are called:
(a) Renewable resources
(b) Reserve
(c) Community resources
(d) Non-renewable resources
Answer
Answer: d
10. 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
Answer: d
11. 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
Answer
Answer: d
12. In which of the
following States mining has caused severe land degradation
(a) Gujarat
(b) Jharkhand
(c) Kerala
(d) Uttaranchal
Answer
Answer: b
13. The main cause of
land degradation in Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh is:
(a) Mining
(b) Over irrigation
(c) Deforestation
(d) Over grazing
Answer
Answer: b
14. Which is the most
common soil of Northern India?
(a) Black soil
(b) Laterite soil
(c) Alluvial soil
(d) Red soil
Answer
Answer: c
15. Red soil is mostly
found in
(a) Parts of Jammu & Kashmir
(b) Upper Ganga Plains
(c) Eastern and Southern part of Deccan Plateau
(d) None of the above
Answer
Answer: c
16. 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
Answer: c
17. Which of the
following is not important for soil formation?
(a) Relief
(b) Parent rock
(c) Climate
(d) Duration of day
Answer
Answer: d
18. Black soil is also
called:
(a) Bangar
(b) Khadar
(c) Regur
(d) Humus
Answer
Answer: c
19. Black soils are
common in:
(a) Deccan trap region
(b) Kashmir Valley
(c) Ganga Valley
(d) Northern Plains
Answer
Answer: a
20. Laterite soil is very
useful for growing:
(a) Rice, wheat and mustard
(b) Tea, coffee and cashewnut
(c) Pulses, sugarcane and resin
(d) None of the above
Answer
Answer: b
21. Black soil is
deficient in
(a) Calcium carbonate
(b) Magnesium
(c) Potash
(d) Phosphoric contents
Answer
Answer: d
22. Which of the
following soils has self-aeration capacity?
(a) Alluvial
(b) Red soil
(c) Black soil
(d) Mountain soil
Answer
Answer: c
23. Ploughing along the
contour lines to decelerate the flow of water down the slopes is called:
(a) Strip cropping
(b) Sheet erosion
(c) Contour ploughing
(d) Terrace cultivation
Answer
Answer: c
24. Which of the
following is not a measure for soil conservation?
(a) Strip cropping
(b) Terrace cultivation
(c) Shelter belts
(d) Overdrawing of ground water
Answer
Answer: d
25. 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
Answer: b
Part
2 ( self test ) answers given
below
Q1. 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
Q2.
The process of transformation of things available in our environment involves
an interactive relationship between ………………………………………… ?
A.
Nature and technology
B. nature, technology and institutions
C. Environment and nature
D. Environment and technology
Q3.
How do human beings interact with nature?
A.
Through technology
B. Through nurturing environmental resources
C. Through industry
D. Through experimental advances
Q4.Are
resources free gifts of nature? And how?
A.
Yes they are
B. They are not , Resources are a function of human activities
C. Yes Resources are nurtured by nature
D. No, Any thing from which a product can be manufactured
Q5.
How are resources qualified?
A.
On the basis of origin
B. On the basis of utility
C. On the basis of distribution
D. On the basis of potential
Q6.
Where are Biotic Resources obtained from?
A.
from biosphere and have life such as human beings, flora and fauna, fisheries,
livestock
B. composed of non-living things
C. reproduced by physical, chemical or mechanical processes
D. Minerals and fossil fuels
Q7.Where
are Abiotic Resources obtained from?
A.
Minerals and fossil fuels
B. reproduced by physical, chemical or mechanical processes
C. composed of non-living things
D. from biosphere and have life such as human beings, flora and fauna,
fisheries, livestock
Q8.
What are renewable resources?
A.
These are obtained from biosphere and have life
B. composed of non-living things
C. which can be renewed or reproduced by physical, chemical or mechanical
processes
D. from biosphere and have life such as human beings, flora and fauna,
fisheries, livestock
Q9.
Give examples of renewable resources.
A.
Minerals and fossil fuels
B. solar and wind energy, water, forests and wildlife
C. rocks and metals.
D. flora and fauna, fisheries, livestock
Q10.
Give examples of non renewable resources.
A.
flora and fauna, fisheries, livestock
B. solar and wind energy, water, forests and wildlife
C. Minerals and fossil fuels
D. rocks and metals.
Q11.
Which of these are resources based on ownership?
A.
Individual Resources:
B. Abiotic
C. Renewable Resources
D. Non renewable
Q12.
Give examples of community owned resources?
A.
public parks, playgrounds, grazing grounds, burial grounds
B. plots, houses
C. energy, water, forests
D. flora and fauna, fisheries
Q13.
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
Q14.
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
Q15.
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
Q16.
What is stock?
A.
resources which can be renewed or reproduced
B. Resources which are found in a region, but have not been utilised
C. Materials in the environment which have the potential to satisfy human needs
but human beings do not have the appropriate technology to access these
D. solar and wind energy, water, forests and wildlife
Q17.
Human beings used resources indiscriminately and this has led to the following
major problems, What are these problems?
A.
Not well planned use of these resources.
B. Wastage of resources
C. Not many problems.
D. Accumulation of resources in few hands
Q18.
What is Sustainable Development?
A.
Well planned use of resources and development
B. Accumulation of resources and then using them accordingly
C. development should take place without damaging the environment keeping in
mind the future generations
D. Using materials in the environment which have the potential to satisfy human
needs
Q19.
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
Q20.
What does resource planning in India involve?
A.
Defining the number of resources
B. surveying, mapping and qualitative and quantitative estimation and
measurement of the resources
C. Taking government permission
D. Matching the resource development plans with overall national development
plans
Q21
Why is.Conservation of Resources important?
A.
So that they don’t get wasted
B. irrational consumption and over utilization of resources may lead to
socio-economic and environmental problems
C. For evolving a planning structure endowed with appropriate technology, skill
and institutional set up
D. For matching the resource development plan with overall national development
plans
Q22.
Which type of land is not used for cultivation?
A.
Already on crop production
B. Land put to non-agricultural uses, e.g. buildings, roads, factories, etc
C. All types of land
D. Black soil land
Q23.
What are fallow Lands?
A.
Current fallow-(left without cultivation for one or less than one agricultural
year)
B. wastelands
C. Land put to non-agricultural uses
D. Land under miscellaneous tree crops groves
Q24.
What is the total geographical area of India?
A.
3.25 million sq km
B. 3.20 million sq km
C. 3. 22 million sq km
D. 3. 28 million sq km
Q25.
Waste land includes………………………
A.
Land left without cultivation for one or less than one agricultural year
B. Land put to non-agricultural uses
C. rocky, arid and desert areas
D. Land left uncultivated for the past 1 to 5 agricultural years
Q26.
………. percent of our basic needs for food, shelter and clothing are obtained
from land.
A.
70
B. 80
C. 90
D. 95
Q27.
Which human activities have led to land degradation?
A.
deforestation, overgrazing
B. agriculture
C. Buildings and making roads
D. Factories and industry
Q28.
How can we solve the problems of land degradation?
A.
Afforestation
B. More agriculture crops
C. Try to grow plants in desert areas
D. Keep injury away from agriculture land
Q29.
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
Q30.
Which is the most widely spread soil in India?
A.
Black soil
B. Alluvial soil
C. Red soil
D. Arid soil
Q31.
Which important river systems have set the Alluvial soil?
A.
Ganga Indus
B. Kaveri
C. Beas
D. Satluj
Q32.
Alluvial soils are favorable for the growth of …………..
A.
sugarcane, paddy, wheat and other cereal and pulse crops
B. Nuts
C. Palm
D. Cotton
Q33.Black
soil is favourable for the growth of……….
A.
Paddy and wheat
B. Nuts
C. Cereals
D. cotton
Q34.
Where is black soil mostly found?
A.
Karnataka & Kerala
B. plateaus of Maharashtra, Saurashtra, Malwa, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh
C. Rajasthan and Gujrat
D. Assam
Q35.
Where are red soils mostly found?
A.
Deccan plateau, parts of Odisha,
B. Kerala and karnataka
C. Rajasthan and Gujarat
D. Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh
Q36.
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
Q37.
Where is the Arid soil found?
A.
Rajasthan
B. Gujarat
C. Assam
D. Madhya Pradesh
Q38.
The land becomes unfit for cultivation and is known……….
A.
Fallow land
B. Bad land
C. Wasted land
D. Deserted land
Q39.
What is soil erosion?
A.
denudation of the soil cover and subsequent washing down of soil
B. Soil eroded by rivers
C. Muddy stuff blown away by winds
D. Soil eroded by rains
Q40.
The processes of ………… and ………, go on simultaneously and generally there is a
balance between the two.
A.
Denudation and erosion
B. Soil formation and erosion
C. Soil formation and denudation
D. Climatic conditions and soil erosion
Q41.
Why is the balance between the two disturbed?
A.
due to human activities like deforestation, over-grazing, construction and
mining
B. Afforestation
C. Agriculture
D. Climate
Q42.
The running water cuts through the clayey soils and makes deep channels known
as …………….
A.
Tributaries
B. Ravines
C. Gullies
D. Drains
Q43.
When the topsoil is washed away what is it called?
A.
Sheet erosion
B. Layer erosion
C. Part erosion
D. Flat erosion
Q44.
What is strip cropping?
A.
Planting lines of trees
B. Planting between water beds
C. Cultivating making steps
D. Strips of grass are left to grow between the crops
Q45.
What are shelter belts?
A.
Cultivating making steps
B. Planting lines of trees to create shelter
C. Planting huge bush plants in deserts
D. Planting near water beds
Q46.
What is the contribution of the shelter belts?
A.
To conserve water
B. To conserve soil
C. to the stabilisation of sand dunes
D. To maintain forests
Q47.
Which one of the following types of resources is iron ore?
A.
Renewable
B. Non renewable
C. Biotic
D. Abiotic
Q48.
How can resources be classified?
A.
On the basis of origin
B. On the basis of colour
C. On the basis of use
D. On the basis of area
Q49.
What type of a resource are rocks?
A.
Abiotic
B. Renewable
C. Potential
D. Biotic
Q50.
Water in the dams, forests etc. is a ………….. resources which can be used in the
future?
A.
Potential
B. Reserve
C. Renewable
D. National
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