Resources and Development MCQs | Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Quiz

Welcome to the Class 10 Geography Chapter 1: Resources and Development MCQ Quiz! This quiz is designed to test your understanding of key concepts such as:

✔️ Types of Resources (Renewable & Non-Renewable)
✔️ Sustainable Development & Resource Planning
✔️ Land Use & Soil Erosion
✔️ Conservation of Resources

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Chapter 1 - Resources and Development

1 / 15

Which one of the following conferences was convened to discuss environmental protection and socio-economic development at the global level in 1992?

a. Kyoto Protocol

b. Montreal Protocol

c. Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit

d. World Summit on Sustainable Development

2 / 15

Name the soil which is most widely spread in India.

a. Alluvial

b. Laterite

c. Black

d. Mountainous soil

3 / 15

The land which is left uncultivated for one or less than one agricultural year is called _____.

a. Culturable wasteland

b. Current fallow land

c. Net sown area

d. Gross cropped area

4 / 15

Which relief feature of India has 30% of the total surface area of the country?

a. Plateau

b. Mountain

c. Plain

d. Desert

5 / 15

In which of the following states, deforestation caused land degradation due to mining?

a. Kerala

b. Punjab

c. Odisha

d. Rajasthan

6 / 15

Match the items in Column A with that in Column B.

Column A	Column B
A. Potential	i. Solar Energy
B. Stock	ii. Ponds
C. Individual	iii. Wind energy in Rajasthan
D. Renewable	iv. Hydrogen

a. A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III

b. A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I

c. A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

d. A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV

7 / 15

By which name is the bad land in the Chambal basin known?

a. Fallow land

b. Ravines

c. Gullies

d. Wasteland

8 / 15

What contributes to the stabilization of sand dunes in western India?

a. Shelter belts

b. Strip cropping

c. Terrace farming

d. Contour ploughing

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Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh are rich in mineral deposits. Arunachal Pradesh has abundant water resources but lacks infrastructural development. Rajasthan is endowed with solar and wind energy but lacks water resources. The cold desert of Ladakh has a rich cultural heritage but it is deficient in water and infrastructure.

Which of the following BEST describes the passage?

a. All regions in India are economically self-sufficient to utilize resources.

b. Only Rajasthan has the scope to utilize renewable resources.

c. India has enormous diversity in the availability of resources.

d. Resource diversity is prevalent only in north India.

10 / 15

Which of the following relief features of India possess the highest reserves of minerals and fossil fuels?

a. Coastal plain

b. Gangetic plain

c. Shivalik mountains

d. Chotanagpur plateau

11 / 15

Match the following efforts of resource conservation from column A with years from column B.

Column A (Resource Conservation Efforts)	Column B (Years)
A. The Club of Rome advocated resource conservation	i. 1992
B. Gandhian Philosophy presented in "Small is Beautiful"	ii. 1987
C. Brundtland Commission Report on "Sustainable Development"	iii. 1974
D. Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro	iv. 1968

a. A-ii, B-iv, C-i, D-iii

b. A-iv, B-iii, C-i, D-ii

c. A-iv, B-iii, C-ii, D-i

d. A-ii, B-iv, C-iii, D-i

12 / 15

Sharanya is making a list of natural resources for a project. She puts wing energy under one column and coal under another column. On what basis is she classifying the resources?

a. On the basis of origin

b. On the basis of ownership

c. On the basis of exhaustibility

d. On the basis of the status of development

13 / 15

Continuous use of land over a long period of time without taking appropriate measures results in _____.

a. Land degradation

b. Soil erosion

c. Loss of soil nutrients

d. Denudation

14 / 15

There are two statements given below, marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Read the statements and choose the correct option.

Assertion (A): Resource planning is a complex process.

Reason (R): Resource planning helps in the effective and judicious use of resources.

a. A is true but R is false

b. A is false but R is true

c. Both A and R are true and R explains A

d. Both A and R are true but R does not explain A

15 / 15

The piece of land left uncultivated for more than 5 agricultural years is called _____.

a. Barren land

b. Forest land

c. Grazing land

d. Culturable waste land

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Pos.	Name	Score	Duration	Points
1	achu	100 %	1 minutes 9 seconds	15
2	Shradha	100 %	3 minutes 29 seconds	15
3	archana	93 %	1 minutes 33 seconds	14
4	archana	93 %	2 minutes 13 seconds	14
5	achu	87 %	1 minutes 21 seconds	13
6	Sahaj Ghai	87 %	14 minutes 57 seconds	13
7	Heena	67 %	2 minutes 35 seconds	10
8	Yasmeen shaikh	67 %	3 minutes 11 seconds	10
9	Kriti	60 %	3 minutes 7 seconds	9
10	Aryananda	60 %	3 minutes 25 seconds	9
11	Kalpana Sree	53 %	1 minutes 36 seconds	8
12	Jj	53 %	2 minutes 3 seconds	8
13	Nippu	47 %	1 minutes 52 seconds	7
14	Shruti raj	47 %	4 minutes 29 seconds	7
15	Sabaa	40 %	5 minutes 4 seconds	6
16	tia	40 %	9 minutes 50 seconds	6
17	Karan	27 %	2 minutes 36 seconds	4

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