Tag: management of natural resources

Questions Related to management of natural resources

A natural resource that has inherent capacity to replenish is called as

  1. Renewable resource

  2. Non renewable resource

  3. Exhaustible resource

  4. Inexhaustible resource


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Renewable resources are those that are replenished naturally over relatively short periods of time. It includes solar energy, tidal energy, geothermal energy, biomass, etc. Thus the correct answer is option A.

Inexhaustible and non-conventional source of energy is

  1. Solar radiations

  2. Wind power

  3. Sea tides

  4. All the above


Correct Option: D

A renewable exhaustible natural resource is 

  1. Forest

  2. Coal

  3. Petroleum

  4. Minerals


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Natural resources occur naturally within environments, that exist relatively undistributed by humanity, in a natural form. A natural resource is often characterized by amounts of biodiversity and geodiversity existent in various ecosystems. Natural resources are derived from the environment. Biotic resources are obtained from the biosphere (living and organic material), such as forests and animals, and the materials, that can be obtained from them. Forests and wildlife are both renewable in the short term but non renewable once a point has been reached or to a point. Forests can be managed to some degree sustainable forestry cuts older trees, while planting new one to replace them, this works in some types of environments better than others.

The collection, sorting and reusing of water is known as 

  1. Water pollution

  2. Water harvesting

  3. Water absorption

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: B

Tawa dam building was completed in

  1. 1988

  2. 1998

  3. 1968

  4. 1978


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Answer is option D i.e. "1978"
Tawa Dam is a reservoir on the Tawa River in central India. It is located in Itarsi of Hoshangabad District of Madhya Pradesh state. In 1958, construction began on Tawa Dam, which was completed in 1978.

The world's oldest dam is 

  1. Proserpina Dam

  2. Kallanai Dam

  3. Lake Homs Dam

  4. Manoike Dam


Correct Option: C

The world's largest dam is  

  1. Kallanai Dam

  2. Gorges Dam

  3. Lake Homs Dam

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B

Which of the following dam is constructed on the river Ganga?

  1. Tawa dam

  2. Tehri dam

  3. Sardar Sarovar dam

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B

Which of the following is the type of roof top water harvesting?

  1. Recharging the aquifer

  2. Recharging of borewells

  3. Recharging pits

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D

Which of the following is a type of water harvesting?

  1. Surface runoff harvesting

  2. Roof top rainwater harvesting

  3. Organic farming

  4. Both A and B


Correct Option: D