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Ans. (a)
Explanation:
Some human activities such as deforestation, overgrazing, mining and quarrying too have contributed significantly in land degradation.
Ans. (d)
Explanation:
Problems for resource development are :- • Depletion of resources for satisfying the greed of a few individuals. • Accumulation of resources in few hands, which, in turn, divided the society into two segments i.e. haves and have nots or rich and poor. • Indiscriminate exploitation of resources.
Explanation:
Features of arid soils :
(i) Arid soils range from red to brown in colour and have a sandy texture.
(ii) They are saline in nature. Due to the presence of dry climate and high temperature, evaporation occurs at a faster rate. Hence, this soil lacks humus and moisture.
(iii) Arid soils contain a considerable amount of soluble salts and owing to dry climate and lack of vegetation, contain a low percentage of organic matter too.
Explanation:
The importance of judicious use of resources are given below :
(i) Resource planning : Planning is an important step in a country like India where resources are enormously diverse for judicious use of resources. It provides economically viable and sustainable solutions to the issues related to resources and serves efficiently and effectively.
(ii) Management resources : The proper management is vital for the efficient and sustainable use of resources. The proper management of resources successfully links the human and resources resulting in its judicious use.
(iii) Awareness : The awareness plays an important role in planning, management and use of resources. It is an responsibility of an individual to affectionately plan and manage their local resources and should manage and harness them in the sustainable and best possible way like a vacant piece of community land that can be brought under use by building parks, gardens, etc.
Explanation:
Everything available in our environment which can be used to satisfy our needs is called a Resource. Resources are technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally acceptable. Examples are coal, minerals, forest, land, water, fossil fuels etc.
Resources are classified as follows :
(i) On the basis of origin
(a) Biotic : living resources like plants etc.
(b) Abiotic : Non living resources like solar energy, land etc.
(ii) On the basis of exhaustibility
(a) Renewable : Which can be recreated like solar energy etc.
(b) Non-Renewable : Which cannot be recreated like fossil fuels.
(iii) On the basis of ownership
(a) Individual (Personal) : Owned by an individual person.
(b) Community : Owned by the whole community.
(c) National : Owned by a country.
(d) International : Accessed by all nations.
(iv) On the basis of status of development.
(a) Potential : Resources which are found in a region, but have not been utilised.
(b) Developed : Which are surveyed and quality and quantity shows the utilisation.
(c) Reserve : Which can be used for meeting future requirements.
(d) Stock : Which can not be used due to the lack of appropriate technology to use these resources.
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