Q1. What are international resources?
Q2. What is the objective of agenda 21?
Q3. What is gully and sheet erosion ?
Q4. What are the various forces of nature that contribute to the formation of soil?
What is the importance of soil as a resource?
Q5. “India is rich in certain types of resources but deficient in others”. Support your
statement with certain examples.
Q6. Define Gross cropped area and waste land.
Q7. Why resource planning a complex process?
Q8. Explain any four human activities that have been responsible for degradation of land resource.

Q9. What is net sown area? Which states of India have more net sown area?
Q10. “India has a variety of relief features which are most important resources?”
Justify the statement.
Q11. Describe the land use pattern of India under the following headings- forest area,
pasture land ,net sown area.
Q12. Differentiate between a stock and reserve resource with suitable example.
Q13. Explain how nature , technology and institutions are inter-dependent on each
other?
Q14. Suggest some ways to solve the problem of land degradation in India?
Q15. What problems have arisen due to excessive utilization of resources?
Q16. What is Bangar soil composed of? How is it different from Khadar?