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  • 1. 
    Resources that take long geological time for their formation are called:

  • Renewable resources
  • Reserve
  • Community resources
  • Non-renewable resources

  • 2. 
    Land that is left uncultivated for more than five agricultural years is called:

  • Pasture land
  • Culturable waste land
  • Barren land
  • Current fallow

  • 3. 
    Area sown more than once in an agricultural year plus net sown area is known as:

  • Net sown area
  • Forest cover
  • Waste land
  • Gross cropped area

  • 4. 
    The total degraded land in our country is:

  • 133 million hectares
  • 130 million sq. km.
  • 140 million hectares
  • 130 million hectares

  • 5. 
    In which of the following States mining has caused severe land degradation?

  • Gujarat
  • Jharkhand
  • Kerala
  • Uttaranchal

  • 6. 
    The main cause of land degradation in Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh is:

  • Mining
  • Over irrigation
  • Deforestation
  • Over grazing

  • 7. 
    Which is the most common soil of Northern India?

  • Black soil
  • Laterite soil
  • Alluvial soil
  • Red soil

  • 8. 
    Red soil is mostly found in:

  • Parts of Jammu & Kashmir
  • Upper Ganga Plains
  • Eastern and Southern part of Deccan Plateau
  • None of the above

  • 9. 
    Red soil is reddish in colour due to:

  • high clay content
  • presence of kankar nodules in the subsoil
  • diffusion of iron in igneous and metamorphic rocks
  • high moisture content

  • 10. 
    Which of the following is not important for soil formation?

  • Relief
  • Parent rock
  • Climate
  • Duration of day
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