Question

Class 10: Geography

What are the IMPORTANT questions from the chapter:

3. manufacturing industry

Answer 1

in which industry where a new substance formed by the process of manufacturing is known as manufacturing industry...

Answer 2

Name the three physical factors that affect location of industries.
Solution:
The three factors are
a. Availability of raw materials.
b. Power resources
c. Favorable climate.
Question-2
Name three human inputs that control location of industries.
Solution:
Human inputs that control location of industries is:1. Labour 2. Market 3. Transport facilities.
Question-3
What are light industries?
Solution:
Industries that use light raw materials and produce light goods are called light industries.
Example: Industries manufacturing sewing machine and electric fans.
Question-4
Name four important cotton textile centres of Maharashtra.
Solution:
The cotton textile centres of Maharashtra are:1. Mumbai, 2. Solapur, 3. Pune, 4. Nagpur.
Question-5
Why are most of the jute mills of India located in West Bengal?
Solution:
1. About 90% of India’s jute is produced in the Ganga- Brahmaputra delta. Hence there is abundant and regular supply of jute.
2. Coal is obtained from Raniganj coalfields, which is less the 200km away.
3. Hooghly river provides fresh water in abundance it the industry for washing jute and jute goods.
4. Cheap skilled and unskilled labour is available from the densely populated states of W.Bengal, Bihar, and U.P.
5. Cheap water transportation with a network of roads and railways help in collection of raw materials and distribution of finished goods.
6. Cheap and adequate hydel power is available from the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC).
7. Kolkata provides good port facilities for the import of machinery and export of finished jute products.
8. There is no dearth of finances required to be invested.
Question-6
Name two most important sugar producing states of India.
Solution:
Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.
Question-7
Name two iron and steel producing plants each of Karnataka and West Bengal.
Solution:
Iron and steel plants of Karnataka are – Bhadravati and Vijayanagar, West Bengal- Durgapur and Burnpur.
Question-8
Name five electronic goods producing centres of India.
Solution:
Five electronic goods producing centers are Banglore, Hyderabad , Delhi, Mumbai , Chennai.
Question-9
What is the annual production of cement in the country at present?
Solution:
131 million tones production of cement per annum in India.
Question-10
Describe briefly the distribution of railway equipments industries in India.
Solution:
The railway equipments industries are at different places.
The steam engines, diesel engines and electric engines are manufactured at Chittaranjan in the West Bengal, Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and Jamshedpur in Jharkhand. Rails and sleeper bars are manufactured at different steel plants. Coaches are manufactured at Parambur, Bangalore, Kapurthala and Kolkata.