Let us understand about agriculture in the developing and a developed country. Below is the differences between the life style of farmers in the USA and India. A farm in USA A farm in India 1. The size of the farm is large. 1. here the size of the land isRead More →
1. Multiple choice questions. (i) Which two of the following extreme locations are connected by the east-west corridor? (a) Mumbai and Nagpur (b) Silcher and Porbandar (c) Mumbai and Kolkata (d) Nagpur and Siligudi (ii) Which mode of transportation reduces trans-shipment losses and delays? (a) Railways (b) Roadways (c) Pipeline (d) Waterways (iii) Which one ofRead More →
1. Multiple choice questions. (i) Which one of the following industries uses limestone as a raw material. (a) Aluminium (b) Cement (c) Sugar (d) Jute (ii) Which one of the following agencies markets steel for the public sector plants? (a) HAIL (b) SAIL (c) TATA Steel (d) MNCC (iii) Which one of the followingRead More →
1. Multiple choice questions. (i) Which one of the following minerals is formed by decomposition of rocks, leaving a residual mass of weathered material? (a) coal (b) bauxite (c) gold (d) zinc (ii) Koderma, in Jharkhand is the leading producer of which one of the following minerals? (a) bauxite (b) mica (c)Read More →
Multiple choice questions. (i) Which one of the following describes a system of agriculture where a single crop is grown on a large area? (a) Shifting Agriculture (b) Plantation Agriculture (c) Horticulture (d) Intensive Agriculture (ii) Which one of the following is a rabi crop? (a) Rice (b) Gram (c) Millets (d) Cotton (iii) WhichRead More →
1. Multiple choice questions. (i) Based on the information given below classify each of the situations as ‘suffering from water scarcity’ or ‘not suffering from water scarcity’. (a) Region with high annual rainfall. (b) Region having high annual rainfall and large population (c) Region having high annual rainfall but waterRead More →
1. Multiple choice questions. (i) Which of these statements is not a valid reason for the depletion of flora and fauna? (a) Agricultural expansion. (b) Large scale developmental projects. (c) Grazing and fuel wood collection. (d) Rapid industrialization and urbanization. (ii) Which of the following conservation strategies do notRead More →
1. Multiple choice questions. (i) Which one of the following type of resource is iron ore? (a) Renewable (b) Biotic (c) Flow (d) Non-renewable (ii) Under which of the following type of resource can tidal energy be put? (a) Replenishable (b) Human-made (c) Abiotic (d) Non-recyclable (iii) Which one of the following isRead More →
In any economy, we have three economic agents that play a major role in a country’s economy, they are – Firms, government and household. Let’s first understand the role of a firm. To understand this topic we are going to take an example of a capitalist country. In a capitalistRead More →
Big bang theory is the modern theory in terms of the origin of earth. If you remember how nebular hypothesis is the early theory and in that we read about the formation of sun, stars, planets, asteroids etc, in Big Bang theory scientists decided – “let’s look at the larger picture,Read More →