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CBSE Class 10 Geography Chapter-6 Manufacturing Industries Important Questions
CBSE Class 10 Geography Important Questions Chapter 6 – Manufacturing Industries
1 Mark Questions
1. Name the any two public sector industries.
Ans.
- National Thermal Power Corporation(NTPC)
- Oil and Natural Gas Corporation(ONGC)
- Steel Authority of India Limited(SAIL)
- Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited(BHEL)
2. What are small scale industries?
Ans. An industry where the investment on the assets of a unit is less than one crore is known as small scale industries.
3. Oil India Ltd is which type of Industry on the basis of ownership?
Ans. Joint sector Industry
4. What are heavy industries?
Ans. Industries in where bulky and heavy weight of raw material is used and heavy finished goods are produced. Example: Iron and steel industry.
5. What is Cryolite?
Ans. A molten metal acts as an electrolyte.
6. When and where, the first cement plant was set up?
Ans. 1904, Chennai
7. Write down the basic inputs of Iron and steel industry.
Ans. Coking coal, limestone and manganese
8. What is NTPC?
Ans. National Thermal Power Corporation
9. Name any two pre independence industrial cities of India.
Ans. Bombay and Kolkata
10. In which year national jute policy was formulated.
Ans. 2005
11. Name the company through which public sector undertakings market their steel.
Ans. Steel authority of India
12. How many technology parks are in India?
Ans. 18
13. Name the undertaking which has ISO certification for EMS (Environment management System) 14001.
Ans. National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC)
14. What is the position of India in the production of Gur and Khandasri in the world?
Ans. First position
15. How much electricity is required for the smelting per ton of Aluminium ore?
Ans. 18,600 Kwh per ton of ore
16. Name the basic raw material used for sugar industry.
Ans. Sugarcane
17. Which were the techniques used in ancient India to produce cotton textiles.
Ans. Hand spinning and handloom weaving
18. Name any two Asian countries who imports cotton goods from India.
Ans. Singapore and Sri Lanka
19. To which Asian country India exports yarn?
Ans. Japan
20. In 1857 where the first cotton mill of India was founded
A. Mysore
B . Madras
C . Surat
D. Bombay
Ans. D. Bombay
21. Largest producer of Jute and Jute made goods
A. Bangladesh
B. India
C. Sri Lanka
D. Brazil
Ans. B. India
22. Iron and steel is a
A. an agro base industry
B. a chemical industry
C. basic industry
D. tertiary industry
Ans. C. basic industry
23. Durgapur is situated in
A. Jharkhand
B. Orissa
C. Chhattisgarh
D. West Bengal
Ans. D. West Bengal
24. Chemical industries usually are located near
A. Iron and steel industries
B. Thermal power plant
C. Oil refineries
D. Automobile industry
Ans. C. Oil refineries
25. STP is the Abbreviation of
A. System tech park
B. Software Technology Park
C. State thermal plant
D. Software Technology Picket
Ans. B. Software Technology Park
26. NTPC is the Abbreviation of
A. National Textile Production Company
B. National Technology Production Company
C. National Thermal Power Corporation
D. National Tuberculosis Prevention Corporation
Ans. C. National Thermal Power Corporation
27. Atomic power plant causes
A. Water Pollution
B. Noise Pollution
C. Air Pollution
D. Heat Pollution
Ans. D. Heat Pollution
28. Manufacturing industries includes
A. Crop production
B. Fish production
C. Plantation
D. Sugar Production
Ans. D. Sugar Production
29. Manufacturing industries includes
A. Converting raw material into ready good
B. Transporting raw material
C. Producing raw material
D. Procuring raw material
Ans. A. Converting raw material into ready good
30. Industrialisation and urbanization go hand in hand‘. Explain.
Ans. (i) Cities provide market and also provide services such as banking, insurances, transport, labour,consultants and financial advice etc. to the industries.
(ii) Industrial workers need houses and other facilities. The provision of these facilities can convert asmall town into big cities.
31. What is agglomeration economies?
Ans. Cities provide market and other facilities like banking, insurance, transport, labour, consultants, andfinancial advice etc. to the industry. Many industries tend to come together to make, use of the advantages offered by the urban institutions. This is known as agglomeration economies.
32. Name three physical factors and three human factors that affect the location of industries.
Ans. Physical factors and three human factors that affect the location of industries are:
(i) Availability of raw materials (ii) Availability of power resources
(iii) Suitable climate (iv) Availability of water
Human factors that affect the location of industries are:
(i) Availability of labour (ii) Availability of market (iii) Government policies
33. What is the large scale and small scale industries? Give examples.
Ans. Those industries that employs large number of workers in each unit and having large production level are known as large scale industries. e.g. cotton textile industry.
The industry that employs small number of workers in each unit and having small production level is known as small scale industry. e.g. readymade garment industries.