Natural Resources And Industries In Indian Geography — Part 2 MCQs with Explanations

Four type of coal, arranged in the increasing order of their carbon content are Peat, Lignite, Bituminous and Anthracite.

The oldest oil field in India is in Digboi, Assam. In the year 1901, Britishers had set the oil refinery in this region naming it as Assam Oil Company Limited.

The atomic power station in Rajasthan is situated in Rawatbhata. It is also known as Rajasthan Atomic Power Station. It was commissioned on 16th December 1973 & is operated by Nuclear Power Corporationd of India Limited.

Recently, Tamil Nadu surpassed Rajasthan to become number one producer of solar energy. A 648 MW plant of solar energy is set up in Kamuthi, Tamil Nadu by Adani Power. It is world's second largest solar park.

Harika barrages supplies water to the Indira Gandhi Canal. The Indira Gandhi Canal irrigates a vast amount of land in the Indian portion of the Thar. The canal begins at the Harike Barrage at the confluence of the Sutlej and Beas rivers in the Indian Punjab and continues in a southwesterly direction for some 290 miles (470 km).

Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh) is not renowned for the manufacture of silk. Moradabad is known as the capital of brass handicraft industry of India. The city features generation of families devoted to brass and glass work. Almost maximum of the city’s population is involved in brass handicraft work. The city is also known as Pital Nagri. It also manufactures silk.

Garden Reach Shipyard is known for the manufacture of bargets, coasters arid dredgers. It is one of India's leading shipyards, located in Kolkata, West Bengal. It builds and repairs commercial and naval vessels. Presently GRSE has also started building export ships in a mission to expand its business.

Neyveli Power Project is a Thermal Power Project. It consists of two distinct units (Neyveli Thermal Power Station I and Neyveli Thermal Power Station II) capable of producing 1020 MW and 1,970 MW respectively including their expansion units. It is operated by NLC.

The primary purpose of constructing the Farakka barrage is to preserve and maintain navigation. The Farakka Barrage Project, constructed in 1975 with the prime objective of preservation of Kolkata Port and for increasing the navigation depth of the Bhagirathi – Hooghly waterway, has a 2225 m long barrage across Ganga with a canal head regulator to divert 40,000 cusec of water through a feeder canal for inland navigation to maintain Kolkata Port.

Gondwana coalfields are found in Madhya Pradesh. Gondwana coal field almost covers all the states of India which reserves coal. Nearly 95% of India's coal is from the Gondwana formation (which is in the Satpuras) and is found in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.

In Rajasthan, Mangla, Bhagyam and Aishwarya oil fields are located. The Mangala Area, located in Block RJ-ON-90-1 (the Rajasthan Block), is a major oil field located in the Indian State of Rajasthan. The Mangala area consists of over 16 separate oil and gas fields of which the majority of the reserves are located in the three fields of Mangala, Bhagyam and Aishwariya.

Ghatampur Thermal Power Plant will be set up in Ghatampur, Kanpur district, U.P. Fuel used will be coal. It is co owned (joint venture) by Neyveli Lignite Corporation (51%) & Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam(49%).

The nuclear power plant in India that provide power mainly for agriculture is located at Narora. Narora Atomic Power Station is a nuclear power plant located in Narora, Bulandshahar District in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Energy generated by the use of coal, oil and gas is called thermal energy. In this process, the water is heated by use of coal, oil & gas (as fuel) which then turns the turbine to generate electricity known as thermal electricity.

The following pairs that are correctly matched are Sabarigiri Hydroelectric project, Ghatprabha Irrigation project and Ramganga Multipurpose project.

Geothermal energy is the heat energy produced within Earth's surface. Sometimes magma from inside come near to Earth surface heating up the rocks at shallow depth. The rocks instead heat the water body which comes in their contact. Similar tendencies prevail in Himachal Pradesh. Here, hot spring is situated near Parbati river spreading to a distance of 1.3 km.

In India most of the electricity is produced through thermal power stations where mostly coal is used as raw material. Although, India has a great potential to produce hydroelectricty but still it has not harnessed it properly & only 1/5 of it contributes to total energy consumption.

In Jaitapur, nuclear based power plants is being set up. The power project is proposed by Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) and would be built at Madban village of Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra.

Rana Pratap Sagar Plant (Rajasthan) is associated with Hydroelectricity. Rana Pratap Sagar Hydroelectric Power Station India is located at Rawatbhata, Rajasthan, India. Location coordinates are: Latitude = 24.9174, Longitude = 75.5794. This infrastructure is of TYPE Hydro Power Plant with a design capacity of 172 MWe.

In Neyveli, Annore & Tuticorin electricity is generated through thermal power plants, whereas, in Mettur it is generated through hydroelectric as well as thermal power plant.

Bhagirathi originates from Gangotri glacier in Uttar Kashi district of Garhwal region. Tehri Power Project is built on this river.

It is the cleanest source of energy since it creates no pollution while moving the turbine to produce electricity whereas all other given sources produce some percentage of pollution.

Coal is an example of Sedimentary rocks. Coal is a biochemical sedimentary rock because coal is formed from organic matter or sediment that comes from biological processes. Coal is typically found near swampy areas, or areas where sediment has little contact with oxygen. Plant matter that dies and settles to the bottom of the swamp will often be processed by bacteria. Bacteria will often take out the oxygen and hydrogen within the substance and leave the carbon. If this substance is buried deep and hardens, it will become coal.

Farakka Barrage was commissioned to Save Kolkata port. Farakka Barrage constructed by India, about 18 km upstream near Monohorpur, to save Calcutta Port from silting, but in the process causing widespread and devastating effects, especially in southwestern Bangladesh.

The following are true with respect to Indian Railways are It is the larqest public sector undertaking, Indian Railway network is the fourth largest in the world, Factories at Kapurthala and Perarnbur manufacture passenger coaches and The narrow guage lines are confined to the hilly areas only.

The first machine made paper was manufactured in 1870 near Kolkata.

Iddukki is a place in Kerala. It lies in Western Ghats. It is the biggest hydropower project in Kerala. All the other 3 options are of Tamil Nadu.

Major coal deposits of India occur in seams separated by sedimentary rocks. Today, coal formed by these processes is often found layered between other layers of sedimentary rock. Sedimentary rock is formed when sand, silt, clay, and similar materials are packed together under heavy pressure. In some cases, the coal layers may lie at or very near Earth's surface. In other cases, they may be buried thousands of feet underground. Coal seams usually range from no more than 3 to 200 feet (1 to 60 meters) in thickness.

Talcher power station is a 460-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station in Odisha, India, which is owned and operated by the National Thermal Power Corporation.

Satpura Thermal Power Station is an existing 1,330-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station in Madhya Pradesh, India.

Tarapur is the oldest atomic power station. Tarapur Atomic Power Station (T.A.P.S.) was the first nuclear power plant in India. The construction of the plant was started in 1962 and the plant went operational in 1969. The 320 MW Tarapur nuclear power station housed two 160 MW boiling water reactors (BWRs), the first in Asia.

Thermal power station in Kawas, Gujarat is gas based power plant, its total installed capacity is 645MW. It is one out of 7 gas-based power station of NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation).

Potential resources are those resources which at present can't be exploited due to lack of technology, capital, manpower etc. but with advancement of technology these can be harnesed in future.

Sagar Samrat is a drill-ship, a merchant vessel designed for use in exploratory offshore drilling of new oil and gas wells or for scientific drilling purposes. It was the first rig that drilled the first well offshore in 1974.

Fertilizer complex "Paradip Phosphate Ltd." is locate in Paradip, Odisha. It was founded in year 1981. It imports raw material from Jordan, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Morocco & CIS countries.

All the following pairs are correctly matched with Irrigation Project State: Damanganga : Gujarat, Girna : Maharashtra, Pamba : Kerala.

The Omkareshwar hydroelectric Project is situated near Omkareshwar Temple in Mandhata Village in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh. This hydroelectric project is built over Narmada River.

Bituminous coal is found only in Gondwana rocks.

The NTPC has decided to set up its first coal-based power plant in Assam

The statements that are correct are that In India, the maximum part of electric energy is generated by the thermal power plants and Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd. is located in Tamil Nadu.