Q.1. Define the following:
a. strip cultivation
b. gully erosion
c. terrace farming
d. shelter belts
e. badland
f. fallow land
g. net sown area
h. bhangar
Q.2 What is a resource? Explain the classification of resources on the basis of
exhaustibility.
Q.3. What is resource planning? Explain three processes involved in it.
Q.4. Write three differences between Khadar and Bhangar soil.
Q.5. What steps can be taken to control soil erosion in the hilly areas and arid areas?
Q.6. “The pattern of net sown area in India varies greatly from one state to another”. Support the statement by giving two examples of states having the highest percentage of net sown area and the two states of having the lowest percentage. Also give the main reason for each case
Q.7. Why has the land under forest not increased much since 1960-61?
Q.8. Explain how nature, technology and institution are interdependent on each other with the help of a diagram
Q.9. Define Resources. Explain the classification of resources on the basis of ownership.
Q10 Explain any five problems leading to land degradation.
Q.11. Identify the problems that have resulted from indiscriminate use of resources. Also explain the solutions to overcome these problems.
Q.12. Write four important characteristics of Alluvial soil. Name the areas where it is most commonly found.
Q.13. Name some resource rich but economically backward regions and some resource poor but economically developed regions. Give reasons for such a situation.
Q.14. What is soil erosion? How is it caused?
Answers
Answer:
1 Everything available in our environment which can be used to satisfy our needs, provided, it is technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally acceptable can be termed as Resource. Coal, water, air, minerals etc. are some examples of resource.
2 Human beings interact with nature through technology and create institutions to accelerate their economic development.
(ii) Human beings transfer material available in our environment into resource and use them
3 Biotic and Abiotic
4All those things which are composed of non – living things are called abiotic resources.
5All the resources upto 12 nautical miles (19.2 km) from the coast are termed as national resources. So this will be a national resource.
6 Mahatma Gandhi
7 Because land is an asset of a finite magnitude.
8 Renewable and Non-renewable.
9 Metals – abiotic (ii) Fauna – biotic
10 (i) Stock
(ii) Renewable
11 Gujarat and Rajasthan.
12 (i) Technology
(ii) Quality of human resources.
13 3.28 million sq. km.
14 (i) Topography (ii) Population