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Most of the alluvial soil found in India is formed from the silt deposited by the Indo-Gangetic-Brahmaputra rivers.

Which of the following regions contains the parent rock that forms this silt?

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Important Questions on Resources and Development

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Social Science Textbook of Competency Based Questions for Class X>Chapter 1 - Resources and Development>Exercise 1>Q 3
An Indian state was taken over by a new government. Which of the following actions by the government will reduce the land degradation?
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Social Science Textbook of Competency Based Questions for Class X>Chapter 1 - Resources and Development>Exercise 1>Q 4
The forest cover in India as of December 2019 is nearly 25%. In the past decade, the government has tried to meet the target of increasing the forest cover by 33%.
Although there have been efforts to increase the forest cover in the past few years, forests are not thriving as they used to. What could be the reason for this?
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Social Science Textbook of Competency Based Questions for Class X>Chapter 1 - Resources and Development>Exercise 1>Q 5
Uranium is found in Ladakh but has not been mined due to a lack of funding. What type of resource is this?
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Social Science Textbook of Competency Based Questions for Class X>Chapter 1 - Resources and Development>Exercise 1>Q 6
Which of the following is NOT an important factor in the soil formation.
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Social Science Textbook of Competency Based Questions for Class X>Chapter 1 - Resources and Development>Exercise 1>Q 7

There are two statements given below, marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Read the statement and choose the correct option.

Assertion (A): Soil formation and erosion go hand in hand but sometimes this balance is disrupted by human activities.
Reason (R): The formation of soil takes millions of years while soil erosion takes much less time.

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Social Science Textbook of Competency Based Questions for Class X>Chapter 1 - Resources and Development>Exercise 1>Q 8
Historically, colonising countries took advantage of India's rich resources to gain supremacy. Why was India not able to resist exploitation of her resources?
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Social Science Textbook of Competency Based Questions for Class X>Chapter 1 - Resources and Development>Exercise 1>Q 9
The inequitable distribution of access to resources has disrupted world peace by dividing society into ____.
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Social Science Textbook of Competency Based Questions for Class X>Chapter 1 - Resources and Development>Exercise 1>Q 10
A river valley in India is being developed into a hydroelectricity power plant. State the three steps of resource planning to achieve this.