Top 550+ Solved Indian Geography MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The important feature of shifting cultivation is : [Excise & I. Tax 1993]
a. cultivation by transplantation
b. cultivation of Leguminous crops
c. change of cultivation site
d. rotating of crops
Q. Fertility of soil can be improved by : [IAS 1989]
a. adding living earthworms
b. adding dead earthworms
c. removing dead earthworms
d. removing living earthworms and adding dead earthworms
Q. Extensive subsistence agriculture is ; [Stenograpers' Exam 1990]
a. farming on the slopes of Western Ghats
b. farming in the thickly populated areas
c. farming in the thinly populated areas
d. farming in the forests of equatorial region
Q. What is multiple cropping?
a. When seeds are sown on a piece of land and then seedings are transplanted in different fields
b. Dividing a field in two or more parts and then sowing different crops in each part
c. Raising in succession only one type of crop in the same piece of land
d. Raising two or more crops in succession in a year on the same land
Q. What type of farming is practised in the densely populated regions of the world?
a. Commercial farming
b. Extensive farming
c. Intensive farming
d. Plantation farming
Q. Crop rotation refers to :
a. method of farming without irrigation in an area of limited rainfall
b. farming done on the same land by different people turn-wise
c. growing same crop in alternate years
d. growing different crops in succession
Q. Mixed farming means: [IAS 2003]
a. growing two crops at the same time
b. growing different crops in succession
c. producing crops
d. using mixture of manures and fertilizer
Q. Which one of the following regions experiences three cropping season for rice in India (Rice Bowl of India) ? [IAS 2003]
a. Krishna-Godavari delta
b. Brahmaputra valley
c. Coastal Kerala
d. Littoral Tamil Nadu
Q. Which one of the following groups of crops is grown in India during the Rabi season? [CPO AC 2003]
a. Wheat, barley, gram.
b. Rice, maize, wheat
c. Barley, maize, rice
d. Millet, gram, rice
Q. Which of the following crops is grown in India mainly by dry farming?
a. Millet
b. Tobacco
c. Maize
d. Groundnut
Q. Which of the following is/are correct about shifting cultivation ? 1. It involves no ploughing 2. It is slash and burn agriculture 3. It involves crop rotation 4. It is combined with transhumance
a. I, II, III and IV
b. II, III and IV
c. II and III
d. I and II
Q. Which of the following is the major silk producing state in India?
a. Karnataka
b. Andhra Pradesh
c. Assam
d. Bihar