Question:
Write a note on Munna Lai and his farm land.
Answer:
Munna Lai s farmland is fertile and he grows two crops in a year wheat or rice and pulses. He purchases high yielding varieties of seeds from the market every alternate year. He rents a tractor for ploughing his field and irrigates it from a tube-well near his farm for which he pays a rent. Munna Lai also has two buffaloes and a few hens and he sells the milk in
the cooperative store located in the nearby town. All the members of the family help him in various farm activities.
Munna Lai takes the advice of government agricultural officers and officers in the co-operative society regarding farming methods and on the type of fodder for his animals, safety measures to protect the health of the livestock.
Sometimes, he takes credit from a bank or the agricultural co-operative society to buy seeds and farm implements.
As Munna Lai does not have the facilities to store his crop he sells it in the local mandi at a nominal rate.
Resources
Q 1.
Name the fibre crops and name the climatic conditions required for their growth.
Q 2.
What are the four Characteristics of resources?
Q 3.
Write a brief note on terrace farming and intercropping.
Q 4.
What are population pyramids? How do they help in understanding about the population of a country?
Q 5.
Give a brief note on mining.
Q 6.
Mention some methods that are used to conserve soil
Q 7.
Name any two steps that government has taken to conserve plants and animals.
Q 8.
Rows of trees planted in the coastal areas to check the wind movement is called intercropping ?
Q 9.
Name any three common minerals used by you every day.
Q 10.
Which sources of energy would you suggest for (a) rural areas (b) coastal areas (c) Arid Regions?
Q 11.
Differentiate between Ubiquitous and localised resources?
Q 12.
What is plantation agriculture?
Q 13.
The world population has grown very rapidly. Why?
Q 14.
Mention the different types of resources.
Q 15.
What is mixed cropping or mixed farming?
Q 16.
What are the different characteristics of population composition?
Q 17.
Write any two reasons for land degradation today?
Q 18.
What is meant by the term industry?
Q 19.
What is sustainable development?
Q 20.
Different crops are grown in different regions.
Q 21.
Write a note on Munna Lai and his farm land.
Q 22.
What are natural resources?
Q 23.
What is a water-cycle?
Q 24.
What is the average density of population in India?
Q 25.
How was the word agriculture, coined?
Q 26.
Write a brief note on Intensive subsistence farming.
Q 27.
How can one increase agricultural production?
Q 28.
Write a brief note on the Ministry of Human Resource Development in India.
Q 29.
Name the factors influencing agriculture?
Q 30.
What is shifting cultivation? What are its disadvantages?
Q 31.
Why people are considered a resource?
Q 32.
Discuss the role of any two factors influencing population change.
Q 33.
Suggest three ways to conserve water.
Q 34.
What is an ore? Where are the ores of metallic minerals generally located?
Q 35.
Distinguish between Metallic and non metallic minerals
Q 36.
Write a brief note on wind power ?
Q 37.
What can we do to conserve resources?
Q 38.
What are the different kinds of cultivation?
Q 39.
What is Nomadic herding?
Q 40.
What are the advantages in mixed cropping?
Q 41.
What are the causes for the destruction of natural vegetation and wildlife?
Q 42.
Why are resources distributed unequally over the earth?
Q 43.
What is meant by population composition?
Q 44.
Complete the sentences below using some of the following words, sparsely, favourable, fallow, artificial, fertile, natural, extreme, densely
Q 45.
Which are the main factors which influence the location of an industry?
Q 46.
Which industry is often referred to as the backbone of modem industry and why?
Q 47.
Give Reason for Environmental aspects must be carefully looked into before building huge dams.
Q 48.
Resources have value- discuss ?
Q 49.
Write a brief note on Renewable resources ?
Q 50.
What are the activities under the secondary sector?
