Agriculture
Class 10
Geography
MCQ's
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)
2. Jhumming in Brazil is called:
a) Ladang. (b) Masole
c) Roca. d) None of these
Ans : (c)
3.What is Boro'?
(a) Kharif crop. (b) Rabi crop
(c) Zaid crop. d) None of these
Ans: (a)
4.Ragi is very rich in:
a) Zinc
b) Iron
c) iodine
d) Phosphorous
Ans: (c)
5............ is slash and burn agriculture.
a) Extensive farming
b) Commercial subsistence farming
c) Jhumming
d) None of the above
Ans: (c)
6. Agriculture contributes.........to the national income in India?
a) 33%
b) 40%
c) 22%
d) 18%
Ans: (d)
7.Rabi crops are sown in:
a) winters
(c) summers
(b) monsoon
(d) none of these
Ans : (a)
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: (b)
9. Which out of the following is a Rabi crop?
a) Barley
b) Jute
(c) Paddy
(d) None of these
Ans: (a)
10. Which out of the following is a Zaid crop?
(a) Moong
(b) Mustard
(c) Watermelon
(d) Urid
Ans : (c)
11. For irrigation, most of the Indian farmers depend on
(a) reservoirs
(b) monsoon
(c) rivers
d) tube wells
Ans : (b)
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)
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)
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)
15. What population of India is engaged in agricultural activities?
(a) Two-Third
b) One-Fourth
c) Three-Fourth
(d) Two-Fourth
Ans: (a)
16. In which month is the kharif crops are harvested?
(a) April
(b) September October
c) June-July
(d) January-February
Ans: (b)
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a) Spring
b) Monsoon
c) Summer
d) Winter
Ans: (b)
18. Slash and burn agriculture is known as in North-Eastern states.
(a) Jhumming
(b) Palo
(d) Bewar
(c) Milpa
Ans. (a)
19.Which of the following is not an important plantation crop of India[CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011]
(a) Tea
(b) coffee
(c) Rubber
(d) Grapes
Ans. (d)
20. Which of the following is an important Rabi crop ? [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2012]
(a) Cotton
(b) Wheat
(c) Jute
(d) paddy
Ans. (b)
21.Which of the following is a Kharif crop ? [CBSE Sept. 2012]
(a) Maize
(b) Paddy
(c) cotton and jute
(d) All of these
Ans. (d)
22. Which of the following crop almost a year to grow ?
(a) Rice
(b) Coffee
(c) sugarcane
(d) Wheat
Ans (c)
23. Which of the following is a major staple food crop of a majority of people of India?
(a) Maize
(b) Wheat
(c) rice
(d) Jowar
Ans ( c)
24. The Green Revolution was successful in Punjab, Haryana, ______ and parts of Rajasthan.
a) Western Uttar Pradesh
b) Eastern Uttar Pradesh
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Gujarat
Ans: (a)
25. Kharif crops are grown with the onset of monsoon in different parts of the country, and these are harvested in ________.
a) July-August
b) June-August
c) September-October
d) October-November
Ans: (c)
26. In states like Assam, _______ and Odisha, three crops of paddy are grown in a year. These are Aus, Aman and Boro.
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) West Bengal
c) Punjab
d) Haryana
Ans: (b)
27. India is the second-largest producer of rice in the world after_____.
a) Indonesia
b) Japan
c) Malaysia
d) China
Ans: (d)
28. Rice is a Kharif crop that requires high temperature (above 25°C) and high humidity with annual rainfall above ______.
a) 100 cm
b) 200 cm
c) 150 cm
d) 50 cm
Ans: (a)
29. Wheat requires _______ of annual rainfall evenly distributed over the growing season.
a) 25 to 50 cm
b) 75 to 100 cm
c) 50 to 75 cm
d) 85 to 130 cm
Ans: (c)
30. _________ is the third most important food crop with respect to area and production.
a) Rice
b) Jowar
c) Wheat
d) Maize
Ans: (b)
31. _________ is the largest producer as well as the consumer of pulses in the world.
a) Brazil
b) USA
c) China
d) India
Ans: (d)
32. Bajra grows well on sandy soils and shallow________.
a) Black soil
b) Red soil
c) Laterite soil
d) Alluvial soil
Ans: (a)
33. ________ is the world’s largest producer of sugarcane.
a) India
b) Brazil
c) Cuba
d) USA
Ans: (b)
34. Rubber is an important industrial raw material. It is mainly grown in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andaman and Nicobar islands and the Garo hills of _______.
a) Sikkim
b) West Bengal
c) Assam
d) Meghalaya
Ans: (d)
35. Rearing of silkworms for the production of silk fibre is known as ________.
a) Sericulture
b) Apiculture
c) Floriculture
d) None of the above
Ans: (a)
36.The Bhoodan-Gramdan movement initiated by _______ is also known as the Bloodless Revolution.
a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Vinoba Bhave
c) Mahatma Gandhi
d) Sardar Patel
Ans: (b)
37. In 2010-11, around ________ of the total workforce was employed by the farm sector, which makes more than half of the Indian population dependent on agriculture for sustenance.
a) 85 per cent
b) 40 per cent
c) 52 per cent
d) 62 per cent
Ans: (c)
38. Considering the importance of agriculture in India, which of the following were given priority for improving Indian agriculture?
a) Establishment of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
b) Development in the field of meteorology and weather forecast
c) Establishing agricultural universities, veterinary services and animal breeding centres
d) All of the above
Ans: (d)
39. Operation Flood is associated with _______.
a) Green Revolution
b) White Revolution
c) Black Revolution
d) Pink Revolution
Ans: (b)
40. In India, Jhumming, a primitive form of cultivation, is called ‘Bewar’ or ‘Dahiya’ in _____.
a) Odisha
b) Chhattisgarh
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Madhya Pradesh
Ans: (d)