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question_answer1) What is a mineral?
question_answer2) What are Rocks?
question_answer3) How does a Geographer help in studying about minerals?
question_answer4) What is the role of a geologist in studying about a mineral?
question_answer5) What is an 'ore'?
question_answer6) What are 'veins' and 'lodes'?
question_answer7) How are minerals formed in veins and lodes?
question_answer8) Name the minerals obtained from veins and lodes.
question_answer9) In what form do minerals occur in sedimentary rocks?
question_answer10) How are minerals formed in sedimentary rocks?
question_answer11) Name the minerals forms in beds and layers.
question_answer12) What are 'places deposits'?
question_answer13) Name minerals formed as 'placer deposits'.
question_answer14) Which minerals are derived from oceanic waters?
question_answer15) What is 'Rat hole mining'?
question_answer16) Which factors affect the economic viability of a reserve?
question_answer17) What are ferrous minerals?
question_answer18) What is Magnetite?
question_answer19) What is Hematite?
question_answer20) Name the two types of iron-ore found in India.
question_answer21) In which places of Odisha-Jharkhand belt iron ore is found?
question_answer22) Where are Bailadila hills located and why are they called so?
question_answer23) Name the countries to which iron-ore is exported from Bailadila hills.
question_answer24) Name the regions having iron-ore deposits in Karnataka.
question_answer25) Where are Kudremukh mines located?
question_answer26) Why are they called 'Kudremukh' mines?
question_answer27) What do you know about iron-ore deposits in of Maharashtra Goa belt?
question_answer28) What are the uses of Manganese?
question_answer29) Which state is the major Manganese producing stock of India?
question_answer30) What are the non-ferrous Minerals produced by India?
question_answer31) What are the uses of copper?
question_answer32) Name the leading producer of Copper.
question_answer33) How is aluminium obtained?
question_answer34) What is the importance of aluminium?
question_answer35) Which is the largest producing state of bauxite?
question_answer36) In which other regions are bauxite deposits found?
question_answer37) Which Mineral can split easily into thin sheets?
question_answer38) What are the uses of Mica?
question_answer39) Name the Mica deposits regions of India.
question_answer40) Where do we find livestock?
question_answer41) What are the uses of livestock?
question_answer42) Name the major livestock producing states of India.
question_answer43) What is the impact of mining on the health of miners?
question_answer44) What is the impact of mining on the environment?
question_answer45) What can be done to prevent mining from becoming a 'killer industry'?
question_answer46) Why should we conserve minerals?
question_answer47) What is the result of continued extraction of ores?
question_answer48) How can we conserve minerals?
question_answer49) Why do we need energy?
question_answer50) What are the conventional sources of Energy?
question_answer51) What do non-conventional sources include?
question_answer52) What are the common sources of energy in rural India?
question_answer53) What problems do we face with the continued use of sources of energy in rural India?
question_answer54) What are the uses of coal?
question_answer55) How is coal formed?
question_answer56) Name the types of coal found in India.
question_answer57) What kind of coal is peat?
question_answer58) What is lignite?
question_answer59) How is bituminous coal formed?
question_answer60) In which two geological ages does coal occur in India?
question_answer61) Where do in India we find Gondwara age coal?
question_answer62) Where does tertiary coal occur in India?
question_answer63) What are the uses of mineral oil?
question_answer64) For what purposes do petroleum refineries act as a 'nodal industry'?
question_answer65) How is mineral oil found?
question_answer66) Name the oil bearing regions of India.
question_answer67) What is the importance of natural gas?
question_answer68) In which region is natural gas found in India?
question_answer69) What is the location of HVJ?
question_answer70) Who are the key users of natural gas?
question_answer71) What are the full forms of CNG and LPG?
question_answer72) Why is electricity considered as in index to development.
question_answer73) In which two main ways is electricity generated?
question_answer74) How is nuclear or atomic energy obtained?
question_answer75) Where do in India we find atomic minerals?
question_answer76) What was the effect of rising prices of oil and gas?
question_answer77) What are the renewable sources of Energy?
question_answer78) How is solar energy tapped and used?
question_answer79) What are the advantages of solar energy in India?
question_answer80) What is India's status in the use of mind power?
question_answer81) Which state in India has largest wind farm clusters?
question_answer82) Which other states of India are well known for effective use of wind energy?
question_answer83) How is biogas formed?
question_answer84) What are the twin benefits of Gobar Gas Plants for the farmers?
question_answer85) What are the benefits of biogas?
question_answer86) How is Tidal Energy produced?
question_answer87) In India, in which region is tidal energy generated?
question_answer88) How is Geo-tharmal energy produced?
question_answer89) Why does Geothermal Energy exist in the earth?
question_answer90) Which are the two experimental projects of geothermal energy in India?
question_answer91) How can we say that energy is a basic requirement for economic development?
question_answer92) What are the twin planks of sustainable energy?
question_answer93) What are your duties as a concerned citizen to save energy.
question_answer94) What is the importance of minerals in our lives?
question_answer95) What is the need for conservation of minerals?
question_answer96) How can minerals be conserved?
question_answer97) What is the importance of ferrous minerals?
question_answer98) What types of iron ore are found in India?
question_answer99) What are the various uses of petroleum?
question_answer100) Give a brief description of the HVJ pipeline.
question_answer101) How is nuclear energy or atomic energy produced?
question_answer102) Why do you think that solar energy has a bright future in India?
question_answer103) How is geothermal energy produced?
question_answer104) What is the need of using non-conventional sources of energy?
question_answer105) State the difference between a mineral and a rock.
question_answer106) What is Rat-hole mining?
question_answer107) Which factors affect the economic viability of a reserve?
question_answer108) What is the importance of natural gas as a fuel?
question_answer109) What is biogas? Where in India are biogas plants set up and why?
question_answer110) What is a mineral? Where is it found?
question_answer111) What are rocks? How are they associated with minerals?
question_answer112) What is the role of a geographer and a geologist in the study of minerals?
question_answer113) What are 'placer deposits'?
question_answer114) What is the status of iron ore in India?
question_answer115) What are the chief characteristics of bauxite?
question_answer116) Where do we find India's bauxite deposits?
question_answer117) What are the chief characteristics of mica?
question_answer118) Where do we find mica deposits in India?
question_answer119) Where do we find limestone and what are its uses?
question_answer120) What are the uses of energy resources?
question_answer121) What are the various uses of coal?
question_answer122) In which two geological ages does coal occur in India?
question_answer123) What are the uses of petroleum or mineral oil in India?
question_answer124) What are the uses of natural gas?
question_answer125) What is the importance of electricity in today's world?
question_answer126) Why do we need to conserve mineral resources?
question_answer127) How are bauxite deposits formed? In which regions is bauxite found?
question_answer128) How is tidal energy produced?
question_answer129) In what forms do minerals occur?
question_answer130) What are the major iron ore belts in India?
question_answer131) What are the hazards of mining?
question_answer132) Differentiate between conventional and non-conventional sources of energy.
question_answer133) What are the four main types of coal found in India?
question_answer134) Differentiate between hydel power and thermal power.
question_answer135) How are minerals formed in sedimentary rocks?
question_answer136) "India is fortunate to have fairly rich and varied mineral resources. However, these are unevenly distributed." Comment.
question_answer137) What are the uses of copper? Give distribution of copper in India.
question_answer138) In which regions does petroleum occur in India?
question_answer139) Which regions are known for petroleum production in India?
question_answer140) India now ranks as a "wind superpower of the world." Is it true?
question_answer141) What is geothermal energy? In which regions have experimental projects been set up in India?
question_answer142) How do we conserve energy resources?
question_answer143) What is the relevance of minerals in our life?
question_answer144) Why should we use non-conventional sources of energy rather than conventional?
question_answer145) What is the importance of electricity in today's world?
question_answer146) How can you conserve energy resources?
question_answer147) Name the mineral which is used to reduce cavity. (a) Silicon (b) Fluorite (c) Aluminium oxide (d) Limestone
question_answer148) Which out of the following metallic minerals is obtained from veins and lodes? (a) Zinc (b) Limestone (c) Rutile (d) Mica
question_answer149) In which kind of rocks are the minerals deposited and accumulated in the stratas? (a) Igneous rocks (b) Metamorphic rocks (c) Sedimentary rocks (d) None of these
question_answer150) Which out of the following minerals occurs in the sands of valley floors and the base of hills? (a) Gold (b) Copper (c) Sulphur (d) Marble
question_answer151) Name the mines in Karnataka which is a 100 per cent export unit. (a) Balaghat mines (b) Khetri mines (c) Kudermukh mines (d) None of these
question_answer152) Which state in India is the largest producer of manganese ores? (a)Jharkhand (b) Madhya Pradesh (c) Maharashtra (d) Odisha
question_answer153) India is critically deficient in the reserve and production of: (a) copper (b) bauxite (c) zinc (d) platinum
question_answer154) Which state in India is the largest producer of bauxite? (a) Odisha (b) Karnataka (c) Maharashtra (d) Kerala
question_answer155) Koderma in Jharkhand is the leading producer of which one of the following minerals? (a) Bauxite (b) Mica (c) Iron ore (d) Copper
question_answer156) What is low grade brown coal called? (a) Bituminous (b) Anthracite (c) Lignite (d) None of these
question_answer157) Which is India's oldest oil producing state? (a) Jharkhand (b) Arunachal Pradesh (c) Karnataka (d) Assam
question_answer158) Which mineral is used for generating atomic or nuclear power? (a) Coal (b) Bauxite (c) Uranium (d) Copper
question_answer159) Where is the largest solar plant of India located? (a) Gujarat (b) Rajasthan (c) Maharashtra (d) Odisha
question_answer160) Nagarcoil and Jaisalmer are well known for the effective use of______ in the country. (a) tidal energy (b) geothermal energy (c) wind energy (d) biogas
question_answer161) What are the Khetri mines famous for? (a) Coal (b) Copper (c) Iron (d) Gold
question_answer162) Which out of the following is derived from the ocean waters? (a) Limestone (b) Sandstone (c) Cobalt (d) Bromine
question_answer163) What is the main characteristic of ferrous minerals? Give one example of such.
question_answer164) Give a list of bauxites producing states of India.
question_answer165) How Narora power plant is different from Neyveli power plant?
question_answer166) Coal is classified in various categories. Give account of it with per. cent of carbon contain?
question_answer167) Veins and lodes are found in which kind of rocks? Also name some minerals found in them?
question_answer168) Which mine produces ?maximum copper in India?
question_answer169) Which place in India is well-known for effective use of wind energy?
question_answer170) Which industry uses limestones as its basic raw material?
question_answer171) When and where, oil was first found in the country?
question_answer172) Give basic characteristics of copper?
question_answer173) Why mica is used in electrical and electronics industry?
question_answer174) What is the general interest of geologists towards minerals?
question_answer175) How bauxite is formed in rocks?
question_answer176) Give a list of minerals found in placer deposits?
question_answer177) Name the element that can be extracted from the minerals or source given below Bauxite, Haematite, Alluvial deposits, ocean water.
question_answer178) Where is the largest solar power plant in India located?
question_answer179) Which mineral found in Rajasthan, Kerala and 3harkhand used for producing electricity.
question_answer180) Give correct chronological sequence of iron ore producer states according to percentage share in total production?
question_answer181) Koderma, in 3harkhand is a leading producer of which mineral.
question_answer182) Which mineral found abundantly in the monazite sand?
question_answer183) What is the importance of energy resources? Give two examples each of conventional and non-conventional sources of energy.
question_answer184) (a) The use of non-conventional sources of energy is becoming necessary in our country. Give three reasons to support the above statement. Or Why is there a pressing need to use renewable energy sources? Explain. (b) What values/lesson you have learnt from the above question?
question_answer185) What is a mineral? How are minerals formed in igneous and metamorphic rocks?
question_answer186) Explain any three types of formations in which minerals occur.
question_answer187) Explain the importance, occurrence and distribution of petroleum in India.
question_answer188) What are uses of limestone? Mention names of two states of India which are major producers of limestone.
question_answer189) Differentiate between ferrous and non-ferrous minerals. Explain three differences.
question_answer190) How is mica one of the most indispensable of minerals? Explain any three points.
question_answer191) State the importance of petroleum as an energy resource. Mention any four oil fields of India.
question_answer192) "India is highly dependent on coal for meeting its commercial energy requirement'. Support this statement with three arguments.
question_answer193) What is natural gas? What is its advantage? Name one region of India where its reserves are found.
question_answer194) How is coal formed? Describe the qualities of four different types of coal found in India.
question_answer195) Energy an indispensable requirement in our modern lives. Explain the statement with three examples.
question_answer196) Decomposition of organic matter yields gas, which has higher thermal efficiency in comparison to kerosene, dung cake and charcoal. Biogas plants are set up at municipal, cooperative and individual levels. The plants using cattle dung are known as 'Gobar gas plants' in rural India. These provide twin benefits to the farmer in the form of energy and unproved quality of manure. Read the above passage and answer the following questions (a) What are Gobar gas plants? What are three levels on which they are set up ? (b) What are the benefits of Gobar gas plants? (c) What values/lesson you have learnt from the above passage?
question_answer197) Which is the most abundant fossil fuel available in India? What are its three major forms? Write the main features of each form.
question_answer198) Distinguish between conventional sources of energy and non-conventional sources of energy. Explain four points of difference.
question_answer199) (a) Explain the need for conserving our mineral resources. Give three methods of conserving mineral resources. Or Why do we need to conserve mineral resources? Or Explain three measures to be followed for the conservation of minerals. (b) What values you have learnt from the above question?
question_answer200) Describe the distribution of coal in India.
question_answer201) Solar energy has a bright future in India. Explain the above statement.
question_answer202) Answer the following questions in about 30 words. (a) Distinguish between the following in not more than 30 words. (i) Ferrous and non-ferrous minerals (ii) Conventional and non- conventional sources of energy (b) What is a mineral? (c) How are minerals form in igneous and metamorphic rocks? (d) Why do we need to conserve mineral resources?
question_answer203) Answer the following questions in about 120 words. (i) Describe the distribution of coal in India. (b) Why do you think that solar energy has a bright future in India?
question_answer204) Formation of coal is a long drawn process spread over various periods. Elaborate the statement with examples in Indian context.
question_answer205) Write one point of similarity and one point of difference between Magnetite and Haematite iron ore.
question_answer206) Why is iron and steel industry called a basic industry?
question_answer207) Find out where these minerals (silica, limestone, aluminium oxide, fluorite, mica, etc) are found?
question_answer208) Find out how many minerals are used to make a light bulb?
question_answer209) Collect "nutritional facts' printed on food labels.
question_answer210) What is the difference between an open pit mine, a quarry and an underground mine with shafts?
question_answer211) Superimpose the maps showing distribution of iron ore, manganese, coal and iron and steel industry. Do you see any correlation? Why?
question_answer212) On the given political map, locate, mark and label the following with appropriate symbols. (i) Iron ore mine in Western Ghats exporting the ore. (ii) The state with the highest bauxite production in India. (iii) The only nuclear power plant in Uttar Pradesh.
question_answer213) (a) Identify and label the following marked on the Political map of India (i) An oil field (ii) A coal mine (b) On the map, locate, mark and label the existing nuclear power plant in Maharashtra.
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