SOWDAMBIKAA’S

CHELAMMAL VIDHYAASHRAM
SENIOR SECONDARY
AFFILIATED TO CBSE, NEW DELHI NO: 1930392.
GANAPATHYNAGAR, THURAIYUR MAIN ROAD, MUSIRI – 621 211.
GEOGRAPHY

GRADE:10 CHAPTER-3
WATER RESOURCES

1.What is three-fourth of the earth’s surface covered with?

2.How much Earth surface is covered with water?
3.What is the proportion of fresh water?
4.How is fresh water obtained?
5.Water is a renewable resource.T/F
6.Explain how water becomes a renewable resource.
7.In which year 2 billion people will live in absolute water scarcity?
8.According to the hydrological cycle,how can fresh water obtained?
A) Snow b) Rain water c) Ground water d) Drainage
9.How many people will face the shortage of water by 2025?
10._____ percent of the total volume of world's water is estimated to exist as oceans and only _____ percent as fresh water.
11.More than 70% of world’s freshwater is contained in
A) Polar ice B) Antarctica C) Green Land D) Glaciers and mountains
12.What percent is stored as groundwater in the world's aquifers?
13.How much of the global precipitation does India receive?
14.Which country ranks 133 in the world in terms of water availability per person per annum?
15.What is the ranking of India in water availability per person?
16.The total renewable water resources of India are estimated at ________.
17.India will join regions or countries having absolute water scarcity in 2025.True/False.

WATER SCARCITY AND THE NEED FOR WATER CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT

18.Given the ------------ and ---------------------of water ,it is difficult to imagine that we may suffer from--.
19.Mention two regions which are expected to face water shortage.
20.Give a prominent example of a region with low rainfall and which is drought prone.What are the efforts
taken by women to conserve water in such regions?
21.Is availability of water resource varies over space and time ?
22.Give three reasons to justify water scarcity in most cases.
23.How is fresh water obtained?
24.Is it possible that an area or region may have ample water resource but still facing water scarcity?
25.Why does a large population require more water?
26.To facilitate higher food production water resource are being---------to expand irrigated areas and dry season
agriculture.
27.Which agriculture is the largest consumer of water?
28.How are wells and tube wells useful for farmers?
29.Most farmers own wells and tube wells in their farms for irrigation to increase their produce.What adverse
effect can this have?
30.Post -Independent India witnessed ------- industrialisation and urbanisation, creating vast opportunities for
us.
A) Decreasing b)increasing c)Intensive d) None of the above.
31.Post independence India witnessed intensive---------.
32.The ever increasing number of industries has made worse by exerting pressure on exsisting ---- resource.
33.Industries ,apart from being heavy users of water ,also require---- to run them.
34.What type of energy comes from water?
35.In India hydro electric power contributes approximately---- percent of the total electricity produced.
36.Which of the following contributes approximately 22% of the total electricity produced in India today?
A) Solar power b) Hydroelectric power c) Industries d) Geo thermal energy
37.What factors have aggravated the water and energy problem in India?
38.How are most of the housing societies or colonies in the cities resourcing their water needs?
39.Water resource are being ---- and have caused their ---- in several of these cities.
40.What are the Quantitative and qualitative aspects of water scarcity?
41.Why does some area inspite of having ample water suffer from scarcity?
42.India’s River, especially the smaller ones, have all turned into ---------
43What are the main sclprits of the assault on Indian rivers?
44.According to citizens’s Fifth report CSE 1999 which two rivers are far being pure-----.
45.Why is there an urgent need of the hour to conserve and manage our water resource?
46.What will impoverish water resource and cause an ecological crisis that may have a profound impact on our
lives.
47.Over exploitation and mismanagement of water resource will impoverish this resource and cause-------crisis
that may have profound impact on our lives.
Multi Purpose River Projects and Integrated Water Resource Management

48.How did we conserve water during ancient times?

49.----- and -----------records shows that from ancient time we have been constructing sophisticated hydraulic
structures in India.
Hydraulic Structure in Ancient India.

50.Name the oldest water harvesting system channeling the flood water of river Ganga?
51.When was the water harvesting system made in India in the 1st century Bc?
52.In the first B.C ,Sringaverapura near Allahabad had a Sophisticated water harvesting system channeling the
flood water of the river-------------.
53.Which hydraulic st.During which regin were the dams , lakes and irrigation sysytem built extensively?
54.During which region were the dams , lakes and irrigation system built extensively?
55.Evidence of sophisticated irrigation works have been found in -------------------.
56.Name the largest artificial lake that was built in the 11th century?
57.Is Bhopal lake one of the largest artificial lake was bulit?
58.Who constructed the tank in Hauz Khas in the 14th century?
59.In which century Iltutmish constructed the tank at Hauzkhas?
60.Which Tank was bulit by Ilututmish?
61.What are Dams?
62.What are the benefits of dams?
63.------- are now referred to as multi purpose projects where many uses of impounded water are integrated
with one another.
64.In which river basin does the Bhakra Nangal porject live?
65.Which power project is bulit on river Sultlej.
66.Water of Bhakra Nangal project is being used mainly for………….
67.Which project in the Mahanadi basin integrates conservation of water with flood control ?
68.The Hirakud project in the --------------basin intergarted conservation of water with flood control.
69.What is the importance of Hirakud project?
70.Why were multipurpose project launched after independence of India?
71.Who said dams are ‘ Temple of modern India’?
72.Why did Nehru proclaim the dams as the ‘Temple of modern India’?
73.--------------is a barrier across the flowing water that obstruct , directs or retards the flow ,often creating a
reservoir, lake or impoundment.
74.What refer to the reservoir rather than the structure?
75.How dams are classified on the basis of structure and material used?
76.Name the types of the dams classified on the basis of height?
77.Which river is called ‘River of sorrow’.
78.What has come under the great scrutiny and opposition for a variety of reasons in recent years?
79.What affects the rives and how it affects?
80.In what way dams affect aquatic animals?
80.How does reservoirs affect vegetation and soil?
81.What are the causes of new environmental movements coming up?
82.Why people resist to these multipurpose projects?
83.What is the problem of people?
84.If local people are not benefited from multipurpose projects then who is benefited?
85.Does landless in a village really gain from multipurpose projects?
86.Expand NGO.
87.What is the role of NGO?
88.What is the recent aim of NGO?
89.Who felt that their suffering would not be in vain?
90.Did they accepted for their displacement?
91.What is the story of survivor of Rihand?
92.”Are we the only one chosen to make sacrifice for the nation?Who said this?
93.Where was sardar sarovar dam built?
94.Is Sardar sarovar dam largest water resource?
95.How many states does sardar sarovar covers?
96.Who gets benfitted from sardar sarovar project?
97.What changed the cropping pattern of many regions?
98.How does the salinization of soil occurs?
99.What created social gap between rich landlowners and landless poor.
100.Did dam create conflicts between people?
101.Which state farmers agitated and almost caused a riot?
102.Which is becoming common with regard to sharing the costs and benefits of the multi purpose project?
103.What is the dispute between Krishna Godavari rivers?
104.Why people objected the multi-purpose project?
105.Why dams were built?
106.How dams triggered floods?
107.Why big dams were unsuccessful?
108.What happened in Maharashtra and Gujarat in 2006?
109.What are the drawbacks of flood?
110.What do you mean by sedimentation?
111.What are the drawbacks of multipurpose projects?
RAINWATER HARVESTING
112.What are hydraulic structures?Name the extraordinary tradition of water harvesting system existed in
ancient India?
113.What knowledge did people had in keeping with the local ecological conditions and their water needs?
114.Explain guls or kuls.
115.For what purpose rooftop rain water harvesting was commonly practiced?
116.What was developed in the plains of Bengal to irrigate their fields?
117.Explain rain fed storage structures
118.List out the places where we can see underground tanks or tankas for storing water.
119.Describe the tanks and how it helps in the storage of water.
120.Why the first spell of rain water storage not collected?
121.What is the duration of rain water storage in tankas?
122.What is the reliable source of drinking water in the summers?
123.Which water is considered as purest form of water?
124.What is Palar pani?
125.Why tankas were constructed adjoining the underground rooms?
126.List out the places where roof top rain water harvesting is the most common in practise.
127.Which place receives highest rainfall in the world?
128.Which capital city faces acute shortage of water?
129.Give the percentage of the total water requirement of the household which comes from roof top water
harvesting.
130.In which state,the practice of roof top rain water harvesting is on the decline?Why?
131.Why in rural,urban India,rainwater harvesting is being successfully adopted?
132.Which place in Karnataka rain water harvesting is installed?
133.How many households installed this system?
134.What was common across the towns and villages of the Thar.
135.Write about rain water harvesting in Thar.
136.Which State in India first installed the rain water harvesting structures?
137.Is there any legal provisions to punish the defaulters?
138.Write about bamboo drip irrigation system in Meghalaya.
139.For what purpose bamboo pipes are used on the hilltops?
140.How does the rain water diverted to the plant site?
141.How does the flow of water into the pipes is controlled?
142.What is used at the last stage of water supplication?
143.What enables water to drop near the roots of the plant?