Question 1: Which subject deals with the study of Soil?

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Question 2: What do you mean by ‘Soil’?

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Question 3: What all conditions can alter the characteristics of Soil?

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Question 4: Mention the types of Soils found in India.

Or Name the four major Soil types found in India, leaving out desert and
mountain Soils.
Or Name four major groups of Soil found in the Indian Plains and Plateaus.
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Question 5: Which two types of Soils are the most important Soils?
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Question 6: What is meant by ‘in Situ’?

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Question 7: Mention two ways by which Soil can get nitrogen.
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Question 8: What do you understand by Humus?
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Question 9: Where are Alluvial Soils found in India?

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Question 10: Name the Soil known for its self-ploughing quality and the capacity
to hold moisture. Name any two cash crops for which it is specially suited.
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Question 11: What is one disadvantage of Bhangar alluvium?

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Question 12: (i) Which minerals are found in Regur Soil?

(ii) Name the important crops grown on it.
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Question 13: Name one important crop that thrives best in Regur and Red Soil,
and a sea-port from where it is exported.
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Question 14: How is the Red Soil formed?
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Question 15: Name the soil which is formed due to high temperature and heavy
rainfall with alternating wet and dry periods. Name two states where this type of
soil is found.

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Question 16: Which of the Soil is affected by Soil erosion and which crops grow
well in Laterite Soil.
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Question 17: In which areas is Soil erosion prominent in India.

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Question 18: Mention the types of Soil erosion.

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Question 19: What is gully erosion?

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Question 20: How does erosion by wind take place?

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Question 21: Mention causes of Soil erosion.

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Question 22: How is man responsible for Soil erosion?

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Short Questions
Question 1: How is Soil formed?
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Question 2: How we define Soil from agricultural point of view?
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Question 3: What are the different types of Soil according to their Zones?
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Question 4: Alluvial Soils are also called ‘Riverine Soils’. Why?

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Question 5: How is the Alluvial Soil found in the Ganga plain different from that
found in the Godavari valley?
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Question 6: How is Alluvial soil formed? Why is this soil agriculturally important?
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Question 7: (i) What is Black Soil?

(ii) Give any two characteristics or features of the Soil found most suitable for
growing cotton and sugarcane in Maharashtra.
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Question 8: How is Black Soil formed?

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Question 9: What are the other names of Black Soil? Where are they found?
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Question 10: (i) Explain the origin of the Black Soil. Name two States in India,
which have Black Soil.
(ii) Mention any two advantages of the Black Soil.
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Question 11: Where is Red Soil found?

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Question 12: What are mineral deficiencies of Red Soil? How can they be
corrected?
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Question 13: How is Red Soil formed? State two reasons for the low productivity
of Red Soil or disadvantages.
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Question 14: How is Laterite Soil formed?

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Question 15: Where is Laterite Soil found?

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Question 16: State two disadvantages of Laterite Soil.

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Question 17: (i) Why is Laterite Soil unsuitable for cultivation? Name an area
where this Soil is found.
(ii) Name the type of Soil found on the summit of the Eastern Ghats. Explain the
causes of its formation.
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Question 18: What is the meaning of ‘Soil Erosion’?

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Question 19: Mention the types of Soil erosion by water.

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Question 20: State the factors upon which the rate of Soil erosion depends.
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Question 21: Define ‘Leaching’? In which region South of the Tropic of Cancer,
can one find Soil formed by ‘Leaching’?
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Question 22: What is sheet erosion?

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Question 23: What is rill erosion?

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Question 24: What is stream bank erosion?

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Question 25: (i) How does sea or shore erosion occur?
(ii) How is slip erosion caused?
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Question 26: How does wind erose Soil?

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Question 27: Mention some measures to check Soil erosion.
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Question 28: Explain the need for Soil conservation in India. State two methods
of Soil conservation.
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Question 29: How does the nature of the Soil affect Soil erosion?
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Question 30: State any two methods of controlling soil erosion.

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Question 31: What is soil conservation? How does reafforestation help in soil
conservation?
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Question 32: Mention two ways by which soil can get nitrogen.
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Long Questions
Question 1: Explain the factors responsible for the formation of Soil.
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Question 2: Draw a diagram showing the different Soil Horizons.
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Question 3: What are the main components of Soil?

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Question 4: Name the varieties of Alluvial Soils. Where are they found?
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Question 5: How is Regur Soil formed? Mention four important features of Regur
Soil.
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Question 6: Mention some of the properties of Red Soil.

Or Mention two characteristics of Red Soil.
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Question 7: What are the salient characteristics of Laterite Soils?

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Question 8: For each, state one method of controlling the erosion caused.
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Question 9: (i) Define the term ‘Soil conservation’.

(ii) Why is it necessary?
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Give Reasons
Give Geographical Reasons for the following:
Question 1: Why are Alluvial Soil agriculturally important?
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Question 2: Why is deltaic alluvium more fertile than coastal alluvium?

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Question 3: Why is Alluvial Soil fertile?

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Question 4: Why Black Soils are also called ‘Black Cotton Soil’?
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Question 5: Why Black Soil needs to be tilled after the first rains?
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Question 6: Why Black soil is Black in colour?

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Question 7: Why is the Red Soil red in colour?

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Question 8: Name one state in India which mostly has Red Soil.
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Question 9: Why is Red Soil ideal for dry farming?

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Question 10: Laterite soil is not suitable for cultivation.

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Question 11: Why is Laterite Soil not suitable for agriculture?

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Differentiate
Question 1: State two differences between Black soil and Alluvial soil.
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Question 2: Alluvial soil and red soil.

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Question 3: Alluvial soils found in the lower courses and the upper courses of
rivers.
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Question 4: State two differences between Khadar and Bhangar Soil.
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Question 5: Black Soil and Alluvial Soil.

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Question 6: Alluvial soil of the northern plains and the alluvial soil on the coastal
plains of India.
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Question 7: Sheet erosion and Gully erosion.

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Question 8: Transported soil and In Situ soil, quoting a suitable example for
each.
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Name the Following

Question 1: Name the soil which
(i) covers the summits of the Eastern Ghats. (ii) makes up the delta of the River
Ganga. (iii) is sticky when wet and cracks when dry.
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Question 2: Give a single word for each of the following:

(i) The loose rock material, together with humus, forming the uppermost layer of
the earth’s crust and serving a source of food and moisture for plants.
(ii) The process of percolation by which valuable mineral nutrients are washed
down from the top layer of the Soil only to deposit them in the lower layers,
making the top Soil
infertile.
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Question 3: Name the transported Soil most widely found in India. State the two
subcategories into which it is generally divided. What are their local names and
which one of them is superior to the other.
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Question 4: Point out the region where coastal alluvium is found.
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Question 5: Name the three types of Alluvium Soil.

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Question 6: Name the crops for which Red Soils is suitable.

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Question 7: Name the Soil which is formed due to high temperature and heavy
rainfall with alternating wet and dry periods. Name two states where this type of
Soil is found?
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Question 8: Name one area where Laterite Soil is found in large-scale.
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Question 9: Name the parent rock of Laterite Soil. Name one area in India which
has Laterite Soil.
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Question 10: Which Soil is found suitable to grow coffee in Karnataka?
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Question 11: Name two important agents of erosion.
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Question 12: Name a part of India where:
(i) Wind is the main agent of erosion. (ii) Water is the main agent of erosion.
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