Question

ONE MARK- QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS- GEOGRAPHY

RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT

1 Where are biotic resources found? Biosphere

2 What are abiotic resources composed of? Non living things such as rocks and metals

3 How are renewable resources classified? Continuous or flow

4 Name the type of resource, which do not

have appropriate technology to access.

Stock

5 Name the type of resource, which can be put

into use with the help of existing

technologies, which are subset of stock.

Reserves

6 Name a global ecological crisis that is created

by indiscriminate exploitation of resources.

Global warming- Ozone layer depletion-

Environmental pollution- Land

degradation

7 Where was the Earth Summit held in 1992? Rio de Janeiro in Brazil

8 State a primary factor that helped the

colonizing countries to exploit resources and

establish supremacy over the colonies.

Higher level of technological development

9 Who wrote the book ‘Small is beautiful’? Schumacher

10 What do you mean by culturable wasteland? Land kept uncultivated for more than 5

agricultural years.

11 Name any 2 states where net sown area is

over 80 %.

Punjab, Haryana

12 What is the desired % of forest area in India? 33 %

13 What is the total area of degraded land in

India in Hectares?

130

14 What is the % of water-eroded area in India? 56

15 What is the main reason for land degradation

in Gujarat and Rajasthan?

Overgrazing

16 Name the most widely spread soil in India. Alluvial soil

17 Name any two piedmont plain in India. Duars, Chos, or Terai

18 Name the soil, which has higher

concentration of ‘kanker’ nodules.

Bangar

19 Name the soil, which has adequate proportion

of potash, phosphoric acid and lime.

Alluvial soil

20 Name the soil that is heterogeneous in nature. Forest soil / Mountain soil

21 What are gullies? Deep channels created by running water

22 What are ravines? Bad land created at Chambal valley

23 What is contour ploughing? Ploughing along the contour lines

24 What is strip cropping? Strips of grass are left to grow between

crops that break up the force of the wind.

25 What are shelter belts? Planting lines of trees.

26 Soil with higher water retaining capacity. Black soil

27 Name the intensely leached soil of the

monsoon climate.

Laterite soil

28 What is meant by current fallow land? Land kept uncultivated for a period of less​

Answer 1

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The biotic resources are those derived from the biosphere and the such as the rivers and the forest but the wool is not abiotic resources and the resources thus are both the man-made that is derived from the consumer, producers and the decomposers, etc.