Resources and Development: CBSE Class 10 Geography practice questions

In the triangle, human beings are at the centre. They interact with nature through one thing, and they create another thing to speed up their economic development. What are these two things?

1. They interact through institutions and create technology
2. They interact through technology and create institutions
3. They interact through technology and create nature
4. They interact through nature and create resources for free

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B. They interact through technology and create institutions

Human beings interact with nature through technology and create institutions to accelerate their economic development. Reversing the two corners is the common slip, and nature is the physical environment people work on, not something they create.

The history of colonisation shows that rich resources attracted foreign invaders. What mainly helped the colonising countries to exploit (use for their own gain) the resources of other regions?

1. Their larger population of farmers
2. Their higher level of technological development
3. The lack of resources in their own land
4. The cultural acceptance of the colonised people

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B. Their higher level of technological development

It was primarily the higher level of technological development of the colonising countries that helped them exploit resources. The text concludes that resources contribute to development only with appropriate technology and institutional change.

There are ten plots. Each plot is 10 hectares and is sown in season one. Four plots are sown again in season two. What is the gross cropped area?

1. 100 hectares
2. 140 hectares
3. 40 hectares
4. 200 hectares

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B. 140 hectares

Net sown area = 10 plots x 10 ha = 100 ha. Area sown more than once = 4 x 10 = 40 ha. GCA = 100 + 40 = 140 ha. Giving 100 is only the net sown area; 40 is only the repeat area; 200 wrongly counts all ten plots twice.