Can you identify and name the various items used in making life comfortable in our villages and towns. List the items and name the material used in their making.
Do you know that India has got the right to mine manganese nodules from the bed of the Indian Ocean from that area which lies beyond the exclusive economic zone? Identify some other resources which are international in nature.
Plan a survey in your colony/village to investigate people's attitude towards recycling of the domestic/agricultural wastes. Ask questions about(a) What do they think about resources they use?(b) What is their opinion about the wastes and its utilization?(c) Collage your results.
What resources are being developed in your surroundings by the community/village panchayats/ward level communities with the help of community participation?
Can you name some resource rich but economically backward regions and some resource poor but economically developed regions? Give reasons for such a situation.
Try to do a comparison between the two pie charts in figure below given for land use and find out why the net sown area and the land under forests have changed from 1960-61 to 2002-03 very marginally.
Multiple choice questions.(i) Which one of the following types of resources is iron ore?(a) Renewable (b) Biotic(c) Flow (d) Non-renewable(ii) Under which of the following types of resources, can the tidal energy be put?(a) Replenishable (b) Human-made(c) Abiotic (d) Non-renewable(iii) Which one of the following is the main cause of land degradation in Punjab?(a) Intensive cultivation (b) Deforestation(c) Over irrigation (d) Overgrazing(iv) In which one of the following states is the terrace cultivation practiced?(a) Punjab (b) Plains in Uttar Pradesh(c) Haryana (d) Uttarakhand(v) In which of the following states is the black soil found?(a) Uttarakhand (b) Gujarat(c) Rajasthan (d) Jharkhand
Answer the following questions in about 30 words.(i) Name three states having black soil and the crop which is mainly grown in it.(ii) What type of soil is found in the river deltas of the Eastern coast? Give three main features of this type of soil.(iii) What steps can be taken to control soil erosion in the hilly areas?(iv) What are the biotic and biotic resources? Give some examples.
Answer the following questions in about 120 words.(i) Explain the land-use pattern in India and why has the land under forest not increased much since 1960-61?(ii) How have technical and economic developments led to more consumption of resources?
Solve the puzzle by following your search horizontally and vertically to find the hidden answers.(i) Natural endowments in the form of land, water, vegetation and minerals.(ii) A type of non-renewable resource.(iii) Soil with high water retaining capacity.(iv) Intensively leached soils of the monsoons climate.(v) Plantation of trees on a large scale to check soil erosion.(vi) The Great Plains of India are made up of these soils.