SOCIAL SCIENCE
UNIT – 2 CHAPTER – 1 (Resources and Development)
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
Choose the correct option:
1. Which is the most important soil of India?
(a) Black soil
(c) Red soil
(b) Alluvial soil
(d) Laterite soil
2. Why are forests essential?
(a) For maintaining ecological balance
(b) For building industrial complexes
(c) For enjoying summer season
(d) For beautifying the landscape
3. Which of the following options does not fall in the categories of land-use
pattern?
(a) Forests
(b) Waste lands
(c) Current fallow
(d) Gross sown area
4. Which soil is also known as cotton soil?
(a) Alluvial soil (b) Black soil
(c) Red soil (d) Laterite soil
5. Which one of the following is not the subasis of the classification of
resources?
(a) Origin
(b) Shape
(c) Ownership
(d) Exhaustibility
6. Land not available for cultivation is called
(a) forests
(b) barren and waste lands
(c) fallow lands
(d) net sown area
7. Which of the following is not a biotic resource?
(a) Flora
(b) Rocks
(c) Fauna
(d) Fisheries
8. Which state has abundance of water resources but lacks in infrastructural
development?
(a) Jharkhand
(b) Madhya Pradesh.
(c) Arunachal Pradesh
(d) Chhattisgarh
9. Khadar is found close to
(a) rivers
(b) forests
(c) coastlines
(d) mountains
10. What is the total geographical area of India?
(a) 1.38 million sq. km
(b) 2.28 million sq. km
(c) 3.28 million sq. km
(d) 4.48 million sq. km.
11. What is Black soil also known as?
(a) Fertile soil lic
(b) Regur soil
(c) Barren soil
(d) Khadar
12. Red soil looks yellow when it occurs in
(a) hydrated form
(b) original form
(c) oxidated form
(d) degraded form
13. Which type of soil has a good capacity to hold moisture?
(a) Alluvial soil
(b) Arid soil
(c) Forest soil
(d) Black soil
14. Where is arid soil found?
(a) Gujarat (b) Kerala
(c) Rajasthan (d) Odisha
15. In which of the following states, over-irrigation is not responsible for land
degradation?
(a) Punjab
(b) Haryana
(c) Uttar Pradesh
(d) Madhya Pradesh
VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
Q1. What does the process of transformation of things involve?
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Q2. How can resources be classified and on the basis of their origin?
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Q3. Classify resources on the basis of their ownership.
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Q4. Classify resources on the basis of their status of development.
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Q5. How can resources be classified on the basis of exhaustibility?
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Q6. What do you mean by sustainable economic development?
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Q7. Name the type of resource which are obtained from biosphere and have
life.
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Q8. What are abiotic resources made of?
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Q9. Give two examples of renewable resources.
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Q10. What type of resources are minerals and fossil fuels?
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Q11. Give two examples of community owned resources.
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Q12. What is the oceanic area up to 12 nautical miles from the coastline
known as?
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Q13. What are international resources?
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Q14. Give examples of potential resources.
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Q15. Give two importance of resources.
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Q16. Mention two global ecological crises.
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Q17. Why has an equitable distribution of resources become essential?
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Q18. Why was the International Earth Summit convened in Rio de Janeiro, A
Brazil in 1992?
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Q19. What is the objective of the Agenda 21?
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Q20. Which states are rich in minerals and coal deposits?
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Q21. What does the cold desert of Ladakh lack in?
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Q22. How can resources contribute to development?
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Q23. What, according to Mahatma Gandhi, are the root causes for resource
depletion at the global level?
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Q24. Write the physical and human factors that determine the use of land.
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Q25. How many hectares of degraded land are there in India?
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Q26. Name the states where overgrazing is one of the main reasons for land
degradation.
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Q27. What is the cause of land degradation in Punjab, Haryana and Western
Uttar Pradesh?
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Q28. Mention two ways to solve the problem of land degradation in dry
regions.
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Q29. What is soil? Ans. Soil is the uppermost layer of the earth's crust which is
loose and fragmented.
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Q30. What is the removal of top fertile soil cover known as?
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Q31. How is soil an important resource for human beings?
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Q32. On what basis are soils classified into different types?
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Q33. What type of soil Bangar is?
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Q34. What is the significance of terrace cultivation?
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Q35. How can soils in the drier areas be productive?
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Q36. What are gullies?
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Q37. What do you mean by bad land or ravines?
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Q38. What is meant by strip cropping?
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Q39. Give one difference between renewable and non-renewable resources.
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SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
Q1. What do resources mean? How are resources classified?
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Q2. Name the different types of soils found in India and also mention the
regions they are found.
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Q3. Define the term soil erosion. What are the different types of soil erosion?
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Q4. Describe the type of resources classified on the basis of exhaustibility.
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Q5. What are the various forces of nature that contribute to the formation of
soil? What is the importance of soil?
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Q6. "India is rich in certain types of resources but deficient in some other
resources." Support your answer with examples.
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Q7. Examine the three major problems that have been created due to the
indiscriminate use of resources by human beings.
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Q8. Explain the major factors which are responsible for the formation of soil.
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Q9. Define the following:
(i) Gross cropped area
(ii) Waste land
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Q10. How is resource conservation different from resource planning?
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Q11. What steps have been taken at the international level to conserve world
resource?
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Q12.Explain with a diagram how nature, technology and institutions are
interdependent.
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Q13. Why is resource planning a complex process?
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Q14. Describe the following methods of cultivation that can be adopted in
mountainous areas to prevent soil erosion.
Or
Describe the following methods of soil conservation.
(i) Contour ploughing
(ii) Terrace cultivation
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Q15. Describe two other methods that can be adopted to prevent soil erosion.
Or
Describe two other methods of soil conservation.
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Q16. Why is it essential to have resource planning? Explain any three reasons.
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Q17. Why is soil considered as a resource? Explain with five arguments.
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Q18. What is Agenda 21? List its two principles
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Q19. An equitable distribution of resources has became essential today.
Explain it. Enlist a ways to conserve resources.
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