Chapter 1 :- Resources and Development
1. In states like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha deforestation due to ____
have caused severe land degradation.
(a) raining
(b) over irrigation
(c) mining
(d) overgrazing
2. The oceanic resources beyond 200 nautical miles of
the _____belong to open ocean and no individual
country can utilise these without the concurrence of
international institutions.
(a) Temperate Zone
(b) Exclusive Economic Zone
(c) Central Zone
(d) South Frigid Zone
3. Which is the right sequence of the soil profile?
(a) Topsoil , Substratum weathered parent rock
material,subsoil, Unweathered parent bed rock
(b) Substratum weathered parent rock material,
Unweathered parent bed rock,subsoil , topsoil
(c) Topsoil, Unweathered parent bed rock, Substratum
weathered parent rock material,subsoil
(d) Topsoil, subsoil, Substratum weathered parent
rock material, Unweathered parent bed rock
4. Upto what distance in Ocean minerals are owned by
Nation?
(a) 10 nautical miles
(b) 15 nautical miles
(c) 12 nautical miles
(d) 20 nautical miles
5. Which state is well endowed with solar and wind
energy but lacks in water resources?
(a) Gujarat
(b) Rajasthan
(c) Madhya Pradesh
(d) Maharashtra
6. All those things which are composed of non-living
things are called ___resources?
(a) Biotic Resources
(b) Abiotic Resources
(c) Renewable Resources
(d) National Resources
7. ____are obtained from biosphere and have life
such as human beings?
(a) Abiotic Resources
(b) Individual Resources
(c) Non-Renewable Resources
(d) Biotic Resources
8. The resources which can be reproduced by physical,
chemical or mechanical processes are known
as____.
(a) Biotic Resources
(b) Abiotic Resources
(c) Renewable Resources
(d) National Resources
9. Which type of resources occur over a very long
geological time?
(a) Abiotic Resources
(b) Individual Resources
(c) Non-Renewable Resources
(d) Biotic Resources
10. Which resources are owned privately by individuals?
(a) Abiotic Resources
(b) Individual Resources
(c) Non-Renewable Resources
(d) Biotic Resources
11. What kind of resource is a picnic spot?
(a) Biotic Resources
(b) Abiotic Resources
(c) Community Owned Resources:
(d) National Resources
12. ____ has legal powers to acquire even private
property for public good?
(a) community
(b) country
(c) Individuals
(d) All of above
13. Which of the following states of India has immense
potential for developing wind energy?
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Sikkim
(c) Punjab
(d) Orissa
14. On what factors does the development of resources
depend?
(a) Technology
(b) Quality of human resources.
(c) Technology and quality of human resources
(d) Potential Resources
15. Materials in the environment which have the potential
to satisfy human needs but human beings do not
have the appropriate technology to access these, are
included among_____
(a) Potential Resources
(b) Developed Resources
(c) Stock Resources
(d) None of the above
16. What is subset of stock called?
(a) Inter national Resources
(b) sustainable development
(c) Potential Resources
(d) Reserves
17. What is the main reason behind global ecological
crises such as global warming and environmental
pollution ?
(a) Depletion of resources
(b) Accumulation of resources in a few hand
(c) Indiscriminate exploitation of resources
(d) Use of resources
18. _____means development should take place
without damaging the environment?
(a) Sustainable development
(b) Local Environment development
(c) Sustainable economic development
(d) Economic development
19. Where was first Earth Summit held?
(a) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(b) Nairobi Kenya
(c) Stockholm Sweden]
(d) Johannesburg South Africa
20. What is not true about Agenda 21?
(a) It aims for achieving Global Sustainable
Development.
(b) It is an agenda to fight environmental damage,
poverty, disease etc.
(c) Agenda 21, has legal powers to acquire even
private property for public good.
(d) One of its major objectives is that every local
govt. should draw its own agenda 21.
21. What is the full form of UNCED?
(a) United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development
(b) United Nations Children’s Emergency
Development
(c) United Nations Educational and Cultural
Development
(d) United Nations Conference on global development
22. Which is the richest State of India from the point of
view of minerals?
(a) Kerala
(b) Bihar
(c) Jharkhand
(d) Maharashtra
23. The state that has abundance of water resources but
lacks in infrastructural development is ____.
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Jharkhand
(c) Arunachal Pradesh
(d) Ladakh
24. Who was against mass production and wanted to
replace it with the production by the masses ?
(a) Nehru ji
(b) Gandhiji
(c) Vallabhbhai Patel
(d) Shastri ji
25. Which of the following is a root cause for resource
depletion at the global level according to Mahatma
Gandhi?
(a) Conservation of resources
(b) Use of resources
(c) Greedy and selfish individuals and exploitative
nature of modern technology
(d) Backward technology
26. At the international level Club of Rome advocated
resource conservation for the first time in ___.
(a) 1974
(b) 1968
(c) 1987
(d) 1992
27. Who presented Gandhian philosophy in his book
Small is Beautiful?
(a) Brundtland Commission Report
(b) Club of Rome
(c) Gandhiji
(d) Schumacher
28. When was the Brundtland Commission formed and
its report published?
(a) 1992
(b) 1987
(c) 1974
(d) 1968
29. What is the name of the report Brundtland
Commission published?
(a) Our common future
(b) Our common past
(c) Our common present
(d) Small is Beautiful
30. The most widespread relief feature of India is
(a) Mountains
(b) Plains
(c) Plateaus
(d) Island
31. Which relief feature provides facilities for tourism
and ecological aspects?
(a) plain
(b) plateau
(c) Island
(d) Mountains
32. Identify the land which is 27% under a certain relief
feature.
(a) plain
(b) plateau
(c) Island
(d) Mountains
33. What is the gross cropped area ?
(a) Area sown more than once in an agricultural
year plus net sown area
(b) Area sown more than once in an agricultural
year minus net sown area
(c) Area sown with crops but is counted only once.
(d) Double of the area sown more than once in an
agricultural year
34. What is the net sown area ?
(a) Area sown more than once in an agricultural
year plus net sown area
(b) Area sown more than once in an agricultural
year minus net sown area
(c) Area sown with crops but is counted only once.
(d) Double of the area sown more than once in an
agricultural year
35. What is the percentage of the culturable waste land
in India?
(a) 8%
(b) 7.7%
(c) 4.41%
(d) 3%
36. Fallow land is a kind of agricultural land. It is
_______ fertile.
(a) not
(b) less
(c) more
(d) most
37. What name is given to the land which is left free for
1 to 5 years uncultivated?
(a) culturable wasteland
(b) Barren land
(c) waste land
(d) grazing land
38. Which of the following is not a physical factor to
determine land use?
(a) climate condition
(b) soil type
(c) topography
(d) population density
39. The total geographical area of India is ____.
(a) 328 million square kilometer
(b) 3.28 million square kilometer
(c) 32.8 million square kilometer
(d) 0.328 million square kilometer
40. What is the percentage of net sown area out of the
total reporting area in India?
(a) 54 per cent
(b) 28 per cent
(c) 70 per cent
(d) 81 per cent
41. The pattern of net sown area varies greatly from one
state to another. It is over ___ percent of the total
area in Punjab and Haryana.
(a) 20
(b) 80
(c) 10
(d) 40
42. Total net sown area is ____han ___per cent
in Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur and
Andaman Nicobar Islands.
(a) less, 10
(b) more, 10
(c) less, 40
(d) more, 80
43. Forest area in the country is far lower than the
desired ___ per cent of geographical area, as it was
outlined in the National Forest Policy (1952).
(a) 23
(b) 33
(c) 66
(d) 68
44. Waste land includes ___, ___ and ___ areas.
(a) settlements, roads, railways
(b) rocky, arid ,desert
(c) settlements, roads, desert
(d) rocky, arid, roads
45. Land put to other ____uses includes settlements,
roads, railways, industry
(a) agricultural
(b) non-agricultural
(c) Forest area
(d) Waste land
46. __percent of our basic needs for food shelter and
clothing are obtained from land.
(a) 80
(b) 95
(c) 70
(d) 50
47. A traditional list of immediate ____ is food
(including water), shelter and clothing.
(a) basic deeds
(b) basic codes
(c) basic needs
(d) non basic needs
48. The total degraded land in India is ____.
(a) 180 million hectares
(b) 100 million hectares
(c) 130 million hectares
(d) 50 million hectares
49. ___ per cent of degraded land belongs to the
category of forest degraded area, ___ per cent of it
is water eroded area and the rest is affected by saline
and alkaline deposits.
(a) 56 and 28
(b) 70 and 20
(c) 28 and 56
(d) 56 and 18
50. In states like Jharkhand,Chhattisgarh, Madhya
Pradesh and Odisha deforestation due to _____
have caused severe land degradation
(a) over irrigation
(b) overgrazing
(c) Afforestation
(d) mining
