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Consider the following:
1. Technologically accessible
2. Economically feasible
3. Culturally acceptable
4. Human beings
Which of the above is/are components of a resource?
Consider the following statements about classification of resources:
1. On the basis of status of development – biotic and abiotic.
2. On the basis of exhaustibility – renewable and non-renewable.
3. On the basis of ownership – individual, community, national and international.
Which of the above is/are matched correctly?
Consider the following statements about Biotic Resources:
1. Biotic Resources are obtained from biosphere.
2. They are composed of living and non-living things.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following :
1. Human beings
2. Flora and fauna
3. Livestock
4. Metals
5. Rocks
Which of the above are classified as biotic resources?
Consider the following statements about abiotic resources:
1. It includes all those things which are composed of non-living things.
2. Examples include rocks and metals.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/ are correct?
Consider the following statements about renewable resources:
1. These resources can be renewed or reproduced by physical, chemical or mechanical pro- cesses.
2. The renewable resource may further be divided Into continuous or flow.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following :
1. Solar energy
2. Wind energy
3. Water
4. Forests
5. Wildlife
Which of the above are the examples of replenishable resources?
Consider the following statements about NonRenewable Resources:
1. These resources take millions of years in their formation.
2. Some of the resources are recyclable.
3. They cannot be reproduced by physical, chemical or mechanical processes.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following :
1. Plantation
2. Pasture lands
3. Burial grounds
4. Ponds
Which of the above can be classified as individual resources?
Consider the following statements:
1. Community Owned Resources are accessible to all the members of the community.
2. Plantation, pasture lands, ponds, water in Wells, etc. are some of the examples of Community Owned Resources.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. All the minerals, water resources, forests, wildlife, land-within the political boundaries.
2. The oceanic area is up to 12 nautical miles from the coast.
Which of the above is/are examples of National Resources?
Consider the following statements:
1. The oceanic area up to 12 nautical miles (22.2 km) from the coast is termed as territorial water.
2. The oceanic resources beyond 200 nautical miles belong to open ocean.
3. No individual country can utilize oceanic resources beyond 200 nautical miles without permission.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. India has got the right to mine manganese nodules from the bed of the Indian Ocean.
2. The manganese nodules lies within Indian territorial waters.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. The resources which are surveyed and their quality and quantity have been determined for utilization are called developed resources.
2. The eastern parts of India particularly Rajasthan and Gujarat have enormous potential for the development of wind and solar energy.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following statements about stock:
1. These are materials in the environment which have the potential to satisfy human needs but human beings do not have the appropriate technology to access these.
2. Hydrogen is an example of stock resource.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. Reserves are the subset of the stock, which can be put into use but not extracted yet.
2. The water in the dams, forests, etc. are examples of reserve.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following :
1. Depletion of resources
2. Global warming
3. Ozone layer depletion
4. Environmental pollution
5. Land degradation
Which of the above are the outcome of indiscriminate use of resources by humans?
Consider the following statements:
1. Development without damaging the environment.
2. Development in the present should not compromise with the needs of the future generations.
Which of the above is/are the components of Sustainable economic development?
Consider the following statements:
1. The first International Earth Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in July 1992.
2. It led to signing of Declaration on Global Climatic Change and Biological Diversity.
3. It was convened for addressing urgent problems of socioeconomic development at the global level.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following statements about Rio Convention:
1. It endorsed the global Forest Principles.
2. It adopted Agenda 21 for achieving Sustainable Development in the 21st century.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following statements about Agenda 21:
1. It was signed in 1992 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
2. It aims at achieving global sustainable development.
3. One major objective of the Agenda 21 is that every local government should draw its own local Agenda 21.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following :
1. Environmental damage
2. Poverty
3. Disease
Agenda 21 aims to combat which of the mentioned issues?
Consider the following statements:
1. Identification and inventory of resources
2. Evolving a planning structure
3. Appropriate technology, skill and institutional set up
Which of the above is/are the components of resource planning?
“There is enough for everybody\’s need and not for any body\’s greed.” This famous statement has been quoted by
Consider the following statements:
1. The Club of Rome advocated resource conservation for the first time in 1968.
2. The Gandhian philosophy was presented by Schumacher in his book – ‘Small is Beautiful\’ in 1905.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. The concept of ‘Sustainable Development\’ was introduced by Brundtland Commission Report, 1987.
2. The concept of ‘Sustainable Development’ was published in a book entitled ‘Our Common Future.’
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following statements about land distribution in India:
1. About 43 per cent of the land area in India is plain.
2. Mountains account for 30 percent of the total surface area of the country.
3. About 27 per cent of the area of the country is the plateau region.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. A land left without cultivation for one or less than one agricultural year is culturable waste land.
2. A land left uncultivated for more than 5 agricultural years is called current fallow.
3. Area sown more than once in an agricultural year plus net sown area is known as gross cropped area.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are incorrect?
Consider the following statements:
1. The net sown area is over 80 percent of the total area in Punjab, Mizoram and Haryana.
2. Forest area in the country is 33 per cent of geographical area.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. Continuous use of land over a long period of time without taking appropriate measures to conserve it results in land degradation.
2. Waste land includes rocky, arid and desert areas and land put to other non-agricultural uses.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following :
1. Deforestation
2. Over grazing
3. Mining and quarrying
Which of the above human activity/activities result in land degradation in the long run?
Consider the following statements:
1. Afforestation
2. Control on over grazing
3. Stabilisation of sand dunes
4. Proper management of waste lands
5. Control of mining activities
Which of the above are the ways to reduce land degradation?
Consider the following statements:
1. The running water cuts through the clayey soils and makes deep channels as gullies.
2. In the Chambal Basin bad lands are called ravines.
3. Sheet erosion is another name of wind erosion.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. The shelter belts prevent wind erosion.
2. The shelter belts have contributed in the stabilisation of sand dunes in western Indian desert.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?
Consider the following statements:
1. Soil erosion is also caused due to defective methods of farming.
2. Ploughing along the contour lines can decelerate the flow of water down the slopes.
3. Terrace cultivation enhances erosion.
4. Strip cropping breaks up the force of the wind.
Which of the above mentioned statements is/are correct?