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Geography class 10th |
All important one marks questions for class 10th CBSE 2021.
Resources and development
1.Resource planning is essential for .... existence of all forms of life
a) ecological balance (b) sustainable
c) exploitation (d) none of these
Ans : (1) sustainable
2. The resources of ownership are:
(a) plantation. (b) pasture land
c) ponds. (d) all of the above
Ans: (d) all of the above
3.Where was the first international Earth Summit held?
(a) Rio de Janeiro. (b) Geneva
c) Switzerland. (d) Philippines
Ans : (a) Rio de Janeiro
4. On the basis of its origin, resources can be classified into:
a) renewable and non-renewable
b) continuous and biological
c) biotic and abiotic
d) recyclable and non-recyclable
Ans : (c) biotic and abiotic
5.Which state among the North-Eastern states has been fully surveyed for its land use?
a) Arunachal Pradesh b) Manipur
c) Tripura. d) Assam
d) Assam
6. The ocean resources beyond 200 nautical miles is classified under which zone?
(a) Exclusive Economic Zone
(b) Export-processing Zone
(c) Special Economic Zone
(d) None of these
Ans: (a) Exclusive Economic Zone
7.Which of the following is essential for sustainable existence of all forms of life?
(a) Resource planning
(b) Resource management
(c) Resource extraction
d) Resource generation
Ans: (a) Resource planning
8.Geothermal energy in Puga Valley and Parvati Valley are:
a) stock resources (b) developed resources (c) potential resources (d) reserve resources.
Ans : (b) developed resources
9. Which one of the following is the main cause of land degradation in Punjab?
a) Intensive cultivation (b) Deforestation
(c) Over irrigation (d) Overgrazing
Ans : (b) Deforestation
10. Individual, community, national and International resources are classified on the basis of
(a) exhaustibility
(b) origin
(c) ownership
(d) status of development
Ans: (c) ownership
11. Which of the following is not classified on the basis of status of development?
a) Potential resource
b) Developed stock resource
c) Reserves resource
d) Renewable resource
Ans: (d) Renewable resource
12. Which one of the following type of resource in Iron ore?
a) Renewable
b) Flow
c) Biotic
d) Non-renewable
Ans: (d) Non-renewable
13. Under which of the following type of resource can tidal energy be put?
a) Replenishable
b) Human-made
(c) Abiotic
(d) Non-recyclable
Ans : (a) Replenishable
14.Area sown more than once in an agricultural year plus net sown area is known as
a) fallow lands
b) cropped area
(d) grazing land
(b) gross cropped area
Ans : (b) gross cropped area
15.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
Ans: (c) culturable wasteland
16.Which of the following soil is more common in Piedmont plains such as Duars, Chos and Terai?
a) Black sol
(b) Alluvial soil
(c) Laterite soil
(d) Red soil
Ans: (b) Alluvial soil
17.Which soil is also known as regur soil?
a) Black soil
(b) Alluvial soil
c) Red soil
d) Laterite soil
Ans: (a) black soil
18.The lower horizons of the arid soil is occupied by kankar due to increasing
(a) Calcium content
(b)potash content
(c) Lime, potash and phosphorous content
(d) Phosphorous content
Ans: (a) Calcium content
19. How much is the total geographical area of India?
(a) 3.28 million sq km (b) 4.28 million sq km
(c) 2.28 million sq km (d) 5.28 million sq km
Ans: (a) 3.28 million sq km
20. In the snow covered areas of Himalayas, which of the following soil experiences denudation and is acidic in nature with hummus content?
(a) Laterite soil
b) Alluvial soil
c) Black soil
(d) Forest soil
Ans: (b) Forest soil
21. The running water cuts through the clayey soils
(a) gullies
b) hard land
c) deltas
d) None of these
Ans: (b) gullies
22. In which one of the following states in terrace cultivation practised?
(a) Punjab
b) Plains of Uttar Pradesh
(c) Haryana
d) Uttarakhand
Ans : (d) Uttarakhand
2. FILL IN THE BLANK
DIRECTION: Complete the following statements with appropriate word(s)
1 Resources are ....... accessible, economically and acceptable.
Ans : technologically, economically, culturally
2. aimed at development. achieving global sustainable
Ans: Agenda 21
3 On the basis of origin, resources are
Ans : biotic and abiotic
4. The resources which can be renewed are known as
Ans : renewable resources
5.resources are accessible to all the members of community
Ans: community owned resources
3. TRUE/FALSE
DIRECTION: Read each of the following statements and write if it is true or false
1. Agenda 21 was signed in 1992 after world war for peace.
Ans: (F)
2.Judicions use of resources is generally called the Development of Resources,
Ans: (F)
3. 95% of our basic needs for food shelter and clothing are obtained from land.
Ans: (T)
4. Fallow land is the land put to agricultural use and for grazing
Ans: (F)
5. Allor station and proper management is leading to increased land degradation in cities
Ans : (T)
Agriculture
1. Which of the following methods have been changed depending upon the characteristics of physical environment, technological know-how and socio-cultural practice?
(a) Industrial activity (b) Irrigation Pattern
c) Cultivation
Ans: (c) Cultivation
2. Jhumming in Brazil is called:
a) Ladang. (b) Masole
c) Roca. d) None of these
Ans : (c) Roca
3.What is Boro'?
(a) Kharif crop. (b) Rabi crop
(c) Zaid crop. d) None of these
Ans: (a) Kharif crop
4.Ragi is very rich in:
a) Zinc
b) Iron
c) iodine
d) Phosphorous
Ans: (c) Iron
5............ is slash and burn agriculture.
a) Extensive farming
b) Commercial subsistence farming
c) Jhumming
d) None of the above
Ans: (c) Jhumming
6. Agriculture contributes.........to the national income in India?
a) 33%
b) 40%
c) 22%
d) none of these
Ans: (d) none of these
7.Rabi crops are sown in:
a) winters
(c) summers
(b) monsoon
(d) none of these
Ans : (a) winters
8.Which of the following is the staple food crop of majority of the people in India?
(a) Jowar
b) Rice
(c) Wheat
d) Bajra
Ans: (d) Rice
9. Which out of the following is a Rabi crop?
a) Barley
b) Jute
(c) Paddy
(d) None of these
Ans: (a) Barley
10. Which out of the following is a Zaid crop?
(a) Moong
(b) Mustard
(c) Watermelon
(d) Urid
Ans : (c) Watermelon
11. For irrigation, most of the Indian farmers depend on
(a) reservoirs
(b) monsoon
(c) rivers
d) tube wells
Ans : (c) monsoon
12. The crops grown in Rabi season are:
(a) wheat, peas, barley and mustard
(b) rice, jute, maize, soybean
(c) pulses, melons, vegetables
(d) sugarcane and tobacco
Ans : (a) wheat, peas, barley and mustard
13. Which of the following farming practice depends upon monsoon, natural fertility of the soil and suitability of other environmental conditions?
a) Commercial farming
b) Intensive subsistence farming
c) Primitive subsistence farming
d) Plantation
Ans (c) Primitive subsistence farming
14. Which type of agriculture practice is famous in North eastern states like Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland
a) Jhumming
b) Slash and burn farming
c) Commercial farming
d) Subsistence farming
Ans: (a) Jhuming
15. What population of India is engaged in agricultural activities?
(a) Two-Third
b) One-Fourth
c) Three-Fourth
(d) Two-Fourth
Ans: (a) Two Third
16. In which month is the kharif crops are harvested?
(a) April
(b) September October
c) June-July
(d) January-February
Ans: (b) September October
17. Important crops like paddy, maize, jowar, bajra are grown during which of the following seasons
a) Spring
b) Monsoon
c) Summer
d) Winter
Ans: (b) Monsoon
History Important Notes
18. Aus, aman and boro are types of which crop?
(a) Maize
(b) Jowar
(c) Paddy
(d) Bajra
Ans: (c) Paddy
19. Watermelon muskmelon, cucumber, vegetables and fodder crops are the types of
(a) Zaid crop
(b) Rabi crop
(c) Kharif crop
d) None of these
Ans : (a) Zaid crop
20. Which of the following was the main focus of our First Five Year plan?
a) Cost of food grains
b)Land reforms
c) Industrialisation
d) Globalisation
Ans: (b) Land reforms
21. Who was declared as spiritual heir of Gandhiji?
a) Subhash Chandra Bose
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Vinoba bhave
d) Sardar Patel
Ans: (c) Vinoba bhave
22.Which of the following is being in taking bags, mats, ropes, yarn, carpets and other artefacts?
a) Cotton
b) Jute
c) Fiber
d) None of these
Ans : (c) June
23...., is a scheme introduced by the Government of India for the benefit of the farmers.
(a) Kisan Credit Card (b) Mum Yojana
(c) Farmer Scheme (d) Jan Dhan Yojana
Ans: (a) Kisan Credit Card
24. Tick the characteristics of commercial farming.
(a) Plots of land are fragmented.
b) Transport and communication plays an important role.
c) The yield is usually low
d) The pressure of population is light on land
Ans: (b) Transport and communication plays and important role
25. The crop that is used both, as food and fodder
a) Ragi
b) maize
Ans: (b) maize
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DIRECTION: Complete the following statements with appropriate word(s)
1.India has three cropping seasons:
Ans: rabi, kharif, zaid
2. Agriculture provides livelihood to more than 63 percent of India's
Ans : population
3. Millets are also called
Ans : Coarse grains
4. The three types of tea are
Ans: Green, black, oolong
5. is a name given to slash and burn' agriculture in North-Eastern States of India.
Ans : Jhumming
TRUE/FALSE
DIRECTION : Read each of the following statements and write if it is true or false.
1. Agriculture is an age-old and a primary economic activity
Ans : True
2.Intensive subsistence farming is a bush or tree farming
Ans: False
3. Crops grown between March and June are known as Zaid' crops.
Ans : False
4.kharif crop requires temperature between 21°C to 27°C
Ans : True
5. Coffee plantations are located in Odisha, Bengal and Bihar.
Ans : False
Manufacturing Industries
1. Processing of jute and rubber falls under which of the following industries?
a) Agro based
b) Business based
c) Mineral based
d) None of these
Ans: (a) Agro based
2.Which of the following is a mineral based product?
a) Woolen
b) Cotton
c) Tea
d) Cement
Ans : (d) Cement
3.Iron and steel industry is an example of which
Industry?
a) Basic industry
b) Mineral based industry
c) Both of the above
d) None of these
Ans : (c) Both of the above
4.Which of the following is produced for direct use of consumers?
a) Copper
b) Aluminium
c) Petrochemicals
d) Sugar
Ans: (d) Sugar
5.Which of the following country is the largest producer of jute in the world?
a) India
b) Bangladesh
c) Pakistan
d) Nepal
Ans: b) Bangladesh
6. Which country has the largest installed capacity spindles in the world?
a) Japan
b) China
c) Philippines
d) India
7.Which of the following activities employees people in the manufacturing of primary materials into finished goods?
(a) Secondary activities (b) Primary activities
(c) Tertiary activities
Ans : (a) Secondary activities
8. Industries cause.............. Pollution.
(a) land
b) air
c) water
d) noise
9.Tools, implement, fertilisers, tractors, etc....
Supplied by
a) government
b) people
c) industry
d) none of these
Ans : (c) industry
10. Which sector is considered as the backbone in the overall economic development of a country?
a) Manufacturing sector
b) Agriculture sector
c) Service sector
d) None of these
Ans : (b) Service sector
11.The industries which have heavy types of raw material are called:
a) light industries
b) both (a) and (b)
c) market
d) none of these
Ans: (d) none of these
12. Which of the following is transformed into a wide variety of furnished goods of higher value?
(a) Manufactured goods (b) Raw material
(c) Industrial goods (d) All of these
Ans: (b) Raw material
13. Molasses are used to make:
(a) rum
(b) ethanol
c) rubber
Ans: (a) rum
14. What is the contribution of industry to GDP?
a) 17%
b) 21% in total of 31%
c) 19% in total of 29%
d) 23% in total of 33%
a) Air pollution
b) Noise pollution
c) Water pollution
d) All of these
Ans: (a) Air pollution
18. Which of the following is emitted by chemical and paper factories. brick kilns, refineries and smelting plants?
a) Fog
b) Water vapor
c) Smoke
d) All of these
19. Which one of the following is manufactured at Salem?
a) Steel
b) Aluminium
c) Cotton
d) Copper
20. Which of the following adversely affects human health, animals, plants, building and the atmosphere as whole?
a) Noise pollution
b) Air pollution
c) Thermal pollution
d) Water pollution
Ans: (b) Air pollution
21.Which of the following is caused by the discharge of organic and inorganic industrial waste and affluent?
a) Air pollution
b) Water pollution
c) Noise pollution
d) Thermal pollution
Ans: (b) Water pollution
22. Which one of the following organizations is responsible for the marketing of steel of the Public Sector undertaking?
a) TISCO
b) BHEL
c) IISCO
d) SAIL
23. Paper, pulp, chemical, textile and dyeing, petroleum refineries and tanneries are agents of causing which type of pollution?
a) Air pollution
b) Water pollution
c) Noise pollution
d) None of these
Ans : (b) Water pollution
24. Which is the only industry in India which is self reliant?
(a) Textile industry
(b) Iron and steel
(C) Electrical
(d) Sugar
Ans: (a) Textile industry
25.Which one of the following iron and steel plants is located in Odisha?
a)Durgapur
b) Rourkela
c) Bokaro
d) Jamshedpur
Ans: (b) Rourkela
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DIRECTION : Complete the following statements with appropriate word(s).
1. Raw material is the prime consideration of ....
.Ans : industries
2 industry provides employment to weavers at home as a cottage industry,
Ans : Handspun khadi
3. India, is the largest exporter of Jute after
Ans: Bangladesh
4. The . . strength of a country in measured by the development of an industry.
Ans : economic strength
5 The first textile mill was established in
Ans: Gujarat
6. is an agro-biased raw material. (Jute/Cement)
Ans: Jute
7.In India, most of the jute mills are located in
Ans : West Bengal
TRUE/FALSE
DIRECTION: Read each of the following statements and write if it is true or false,
1.The jute industry supports one lakh workers directly.
Ans : False
2 Mineral-based industries use metals and minerals as raw material.
Ans : True
3 Iron and steel is considered heavy industry,
Ans: (T)
4 India occupies second place in the production of Gur and Kandshari
Ans: False
5 The first successful textile mill was established in Mumbai in 1854
Ans: True
6 The hand span khali provides a wale opment to weavers in their home a s cottage industry
Ans True
Lifeline of the Indian economy
1.Tourism help in the development of international understanding and
a) Brotherhood
b) Culture and heritage
c) National pride
d) Handicrafts
Ans: (c) Culture and heritage
2.Which of the following visits India for heritage tourism, eco tourism, adventure tourism cultural tourism, medical tourism and business tourism?
(a) Foreign tourists (1) Local tourists
(c) Students as tourist (d) None of the above
Ans: (a) Foreign tourists
3. What locations are connected by the longest National Highway-7?
a) Delhi and Kanyakumari
b) Delhi and Mumbai
c) Jabalpur and Madurai
d) Varanasi and Kanyakumari
Ans: (c) Varanasi and Kanyakumari
4.Which one of the following is the eastern terminal of East-West Corridor?
a) Shilong
b) Silchar
C) Silvassa
d) Singrauli
Ans: (b) Silchar
5. Which two of the following extreme locations are connected by the East-West Corridors?
a) Srinagar and Kanyakumari
b) Silcher and Porbandar
c) Mumbai and Kolkata
d) Nagpur and Siligudi
Ans: (b) Silcher and Porbandar
6. Which one of the following ports was developed to relieve the pressure on Kolkata port?
a) Haldia
b) Vishakhapatnam
c) Paradip
d) Navasheva
Ans : (a) Haldia
7.The main type of water transport is:
a) ocean
b) inland waterways
c) both (a) and (b)
d) none of these
Ans: (a) occan
8.Which of the following National Highway is called Sher-Shah Suri Marg?
a) National Highway-1
b) National Highway-9
c) National Higliwny-5
d) National Highway-7
Ans: (a) National Highway-1
9 Countries like Nepal and Bhutan are called:
a) coastal countries
b) landlocked countries
c) gulf countries
d) none of these
Ans : (b) landlocked countries
10. Air transport was nationalised in the year:
a) 1918
b) 1970
c) 1953
d) 1960
Ans: (c) 1953
11..........has one of the largest road networks in the world, aggregating to about 2.3 million km at preson
a) India
b) Bangladesh
c) China
d) Nepal
12.What is the major objective of the Super Highways?
a) To reduce time and distance between mega cities
b) To break inter-state barriers.
c) To compete with the railways in India.
d) None of these
Ans : (a) To reduce time and distance between mega cities.
13. Which of the following corridors links Srinagar Kanyakumari?
a) North-South corridor
b) North-East corridor
C) East-West corridor
d) Sout-West corridor
Ans : (a) North-South corridor
14. The National Highway I following places in India?
a) Delhi-Amritsar
b) Delhi-Patiala
C) Delhi Lucknow
Ans: a) Delhi-Amritsar
15.Which of the following roads received special impetus under the Pradhan Mantri Grameen Social Yojana?
a) Rural roads
b) Urban roadse
C) District roads
d) National Highways
Ans : (a) Rural roads
16. How many type of important networks of pipeline transportation are there in the country?
a) One
b) Three
C) Two
d) Four
Ans: (b) Three
17.Gas pipelines from Hazira in Gujarat connects Jagdishpur in which of the following state?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Bihar
d) Himachal Pradesh
Ans : (b) Uttar Pradesh
18 Which of the following port was planned with a ww to decongest the Mumbai port and serve as a port to this region?
a) Kandla port
b) Marmagao port
c) Jawaharlal Nehru port
d) None of the above
Ans : (c) Jawaharlal Nehru port
19.How many railway zones are there in India?
a) 11 zones
b) 16 zones
c) 15 zones
d) 18 zones
Ans : (b) 16 zones
20. How much is the contribution of agriculture and allied products in the export of India?
a) 7.5%
b) 9.9%
c) 4%
d) 6.3%
Ans : (b) 9.9%
21. The highway projects are being implement by:
a) Central Public Words Department
b) State Public Works Department
c) National Highway Authority of India
d) Both (a) and (c)
Ans: (c) National Highway Authority of India
22. What percentage of foreign tourists arrivals in country witnessed in the year 2010 against the year the 2009?
a) 10.8%e
b) 12.8%
c) 11.8%
d) 13.8%
Ans: (c) 11.8%
23.Which of the following promotes national integration and provides support to local handicrafts and cultural pursuits?
a) Tourism
b) Services
Ans: (a) Tourism.
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DIRECTION: Complete the following statements with appropriate word(s).
1. The first port developed soon after independence is
Ans : Kandla
2.The National Highway links country. parts of the
Ans: extreme
3. ....... are the cheapest means of transport.
Ans : Waterways
4.Under the government scheme of ........... every village of the country is linked to a major town in the country by a motorable road.
Ans : Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojna
5.With the development in ......... and the area of influence of trade and transport, expanded far and wide.
Ans: science, technology
6.Connect the district headquarters with other places of the district
Ans: District roads
TRUE/FALSE
DIRECTION : Read each of the following statements and write if it is true or false,
1.The Ganga river between Allahabad and Haldia is National Waterway No. 1.
Ans : True
2. Extreme south-eastern port of Tuticorn is in Kerala
Ans : False
3. Pawanhans Helicopters Ltd. provides helicopter services to oil and Natural Gas Corporation in its off shore operations to inaccessible areas.
Ans : True
4. Air travel is within a reach of the common people,
Ans : False
5. Marmagao port is the premier iron ore exporting port of the country
Ans : True