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Olympiad (Class 5) Natural resources and Indian heritage — practice questions

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A potter shapes river clay into pots. Why is clay a natural resource?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair contains only biotic resources?Read the answer and worked solution →Coal looks like a rock, yet it is a biotic resource. Why?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these comes from non-living, inorganic material?Read the answer and worked solution →Petroleum lies deep in rocks and nobody has pumped it out yet. What kind of resource is it for now?Read the answer and worked solution →A coal field has been surveyed and measured, and it is being mined for use today. What is it called?Read the answer and worked solution →The part of an actual resource that can be developed profitably in the future is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which resource is continuously available and not noticeably used up by human consumption?Read the answer and worked solution →When is a resource that people use still counted as renewable?Read the answer and worked solution →Why are fossil fuels treated as non-renewable resources?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these can be recycled and used again?Read the answer and worked solution →A family owns a pond and a plantation privately. By ownership, what type of resources are these?Read the answer and worked solution →A cemetery open to every member of a village is what type of resource?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is an international resource, regulated by international organizations?Read the answer and worked solution →Minerals, forests and wildlife inside a country's boundaries belong to which ownership group?Read the answer and worked solution →Hunting, trapping, mining and forestry are all examples of which kind of industry?Read the answer and worked solution →What does extraction of resources produce, which is then processed to add value?Read the answer and worked solution →Which idea meets today's needs without harming future generations' needs?Read the answer and worked solution →Which activity is a direct cause of natural resource depletion?Read the answer and worked solution →Too much nitrogen used on farmland over the years is linked to which harm?Read the answer and worked solution →Losing rainforests is a worry for health because many medicines have ingredients taken from what?Read the answer and worked solution →Why are rainforests of special concern?Read the answer and worked solution →Which practice protects and restores the areas where wild plants and animals live?Read the answer and worked solution →The scientific study of Earth's biodiversity, aimed at saving species from extinction, is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1982 the United Nations developed the World Charter for what, to guard it from depletion by people?Read the answer and worked solution →Fisheries, forestry and wildlife are large sub-parts of which discipline?Read the answer and worked solution →A village shares a forest. How do users keep its rules working?Read the answer and worked solution →Minerals are the most common example of which group of resources?Read the answer and worked solution →Digging ponds and fitting rain-catching ducts on house roofs are methods of which water-saving strategy?Read the answer and worked solution →Rain soaks into the soil and fills the saturation zone underground. What is this water called?Read the answer and worked solution →

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A potter shapes river clay into pots. Why is clay a natural resource?

  1. Made in a factory
  2. Drawn from nature
  3. Packed in a shop
  4. Built in a lab
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Correct answer: B. Drawn from nature

Clay is taken straight from the earth and only shaped, so it is a resource drawn from nature.

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Which pair contains only biotic resources?

  1. Water and gold
  2. Air and iron
  3. Land and copper
  4. Fish and timber
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Correct answer: D. Fish and timber

Fish and timber come from living things, while water, gold, air, iron, land and copper are non-living.

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Coal looks like a rock, yet it is a biotic resource. Why?

  1. Decayed plant matter
  2. Grows on tall trees
  3. Dug by living miners
  4. Floats like wood does
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Correct answer: A. Decayed plant matter

Coal formed from the remains of once-living plants and organisms that decayed over a long time.

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