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Resources and Development Practise Sheet 2

This document is a class test from Podar International School for grade 10 on the topic of resources and development from the social science textbook. The test has 3 questions assessing knowledge of key concepts from chapter 1, including defining sustainable development and resources, classifying resources based on exhaustibility, and factors influencing soil formation. Question 3 requires explaining how land resources are used and discussing ways to solve problems of land degradation.

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Resources and Development Practise Sheet 2

This document is a class test from Podar International School for grade 10 on the topic of resources and development from the social science textbook. The test has 3 questions assessing knowledge of key concepts from chapter 1, including defining sustainable development and resources, classifying resources based on exhaustibility, and factors influencing soil formation. Question 3 requires explaining how land resources are used and discussing ways to solve problems of land degradation.

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PODAR INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (CBSE)

Class Test
Grade: X Topic: Ch 1 Resources and Development
Subject: Social Answer Scheme Maximum Marks: 25
Science

Question 1
(a) What is meant by sustainable development? [1]
Sustainable economic development means ‘development
should take place without damaging the environment, and
development in the present should not compromise with
theneeds of the future generations.’
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(b) What do you understand by ‘resource’? [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’.
Textbook Page No. 1

(c) How is resource classified on the basis of its exhaustibility? [1]


On the basis of exhaustibility – renewable and non-
renewable
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(d) Name important factors in the formation of soil. [1]


Relief, parent rock or bed rock, climate, vegetation and
other forms of life and time are important factors in the
formation of soil.
Textbook Page No. 8

(e) How does red soil develop its red colour? [1]
The red soil develops a reddish colour due to diffusion of
iron in crystalline and metamorphic rocks.
Textbook Page No. 10

(f) What are ‘badlands’? What are they called in Chambal basins? [1]

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When the land becomes unfit for cultivation it is known as
bad lands. In the Chambal basin such lands are called
ravines.
Textbook Page No. 11

Question 2
(a) What are abiotic resources? Give two examples of abiotic [3]
resources.
Abiotic Resources are all those things which are
composed of non-living things. For example, rocks and
metals.
Textbook Page No. 1

(b) Why are fossil fuels termed as inexhaustible resources? [3]


Inexhaustible resources occur over a very long geological
time. Minerals and fossil fuels are examples of such
resources. While minerals can be recycled, fossil fuels
take millions of years in their formation and they cannot
be recycled and get exhausted with their use. That is why
they are called as inexhaustible.
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(c) How does mineral processing cause land degradation? [3]


The mineral processing like grinding of limestone for
cement industry and calcite and soapstone for ceramic
industry generate huge quantity of dust in the
atmosphere. It retards the process of infiltration of water
into the soil after it settles down on the land
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Question 3
(a) Explain how the land resources are used? [5]
Land resources are used for the following
purposes:
1. Forests
2. Land not available for cultivation
(a) Barren and waste land
(b) Land put to non-agricultural uses, e.g.buildings, roads,
factories, etc.
3. Other uncultivated land (excluding fallow land)
(a) Permanent pastures and grazing land,
(b) Land under miscellaneous tree crops groves (not

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included in net sown area),
(c) Culturable waste land (left uncultivated for more than 5
agricultural years).
4. Fallow lands
(a) Current fallow-(left without cultivation for
one or less than one agricultural year),
(b) Other than current fallow-(left uncultivated for the past
1 to 5agricultural years).
5. Net sown area sown more than once in an
agricultural year plus net sown area is known as gross
cropped area.
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(b) Discuss ways using which the problem of land degradation can [5]
be solved.
There are many ways to solve the problems of land
degradation. Afforestation and proper management of
grazing can help to some extent. Planting of shelter belts
of plants, control on over grazing, stabilisation of sand
dunes by growing thorny bushes are some of the methods
to check land degradation. Proper management of waste
lands, control of mining activities, proper discharge and
disposal of industrial effluents and wastes after treatment
can reduce land and water degradation in industrial and
suburban areas.
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