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Run the crop leadersRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the oilseedsRead the answer and worked solution →Kharif or rabiRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the land useRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Farm bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A globe shows mostly blue. Water covers about what share of the earth's surface?Read the answer and worked solution →Of all the water on earth, roughly how much is fresh water?Read the answer and worked solution →India has about 16 per cent of the world's people. What share of the world's water resources does it have?Read the answer and worked solution →How much water does India receive from precipitation in a year?Read the answer and worked solution →India has about 10,360 rivers and tributaries longer than what length?Read the answer and worked solution →Only 32 per cent of surface water can be used. What is the usable amount?Read the answer and worked solution →The Ganga, Brahmaputra and Barak basins cover one third of India's area. What share of surface water do they hold?Read the answer and worked solution →India's total replenishable groundwater is about how much?Read the answer and worked solution →A tubewell farmer in Punjab pumps heavily. Which States use groundwater most intensively?Read the answer and worked solution →Brackish lagoon water in Kerala, Odisha and West Bengal is used for what?Read the answer and worked solution →Bhakra-Nangal, Hirakud and Nagarjuna Sagar are examples of what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which sector uses about 89 per cent of India's surface water?Read the answer and worked solution →Industry uses only 2 per cent of surface water. What share does the domestic sector use?Read the answer and worked solution →In Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, what share of net sown area is irrigated?Read the answer and worked solution →Wells and tubewells irrigate what share of Punjab's net irrigated area?Read the answer and worked solution →Over-pumping groundwater in Rajasthan and Maharashtra has raised which contaminant?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two rivers are named as the most polluted in India?Read the answer and worked solution →The Central Pollution Control Board monitors water quality at how many stations?Read the answer and worked solution →The Yamuna is most polluted between Delhi and which town?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act passed?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Central Government watershed project is executed by Gram Panchayats?Read the answer and worked solution →Neeru-Meeru, meaning Water and You, is a water harvesting programme of which State?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the water factsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the polluted riversRead the answer and worked solution →

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Run the crop leaders

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Questions
  1. Correct
    Maharashtra
    Choices
    1. Maharashtra
    2. Kerala
    3. Assam
  2. Correct
    Uttar Pradesh
    Choices
    1. Punjab
    2. Uttar Pradesh
    3. Goa
  3. Correct
    West Bengal
    Choices
    1. Kerala
    2. Punjab
    3. West Bengal
  4. Correct
    Assam
    Choices
    1. Assam
    2. Rajasthan
    3. Kerala
  5. Correct
    Karnataka
    Choices
    1. Bihar
    2. Karnataka
    3. Punjab
  6. Correct
    Rajasthan
    Choices
    1. Kerala
    2. Assam
    3. Rajasthan
Instructions
Pick the lane with the leading state for each crop.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 5, Land Resources and Agriculture._

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Slice the oilseeds

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Does not match the category
  1. Jute
  2. Tea
  3. Wheat
  4. Coffee
Matches the category
  1. Groundnut
  2. Mustard
  3. Soyabean
  4. Sunflower
  5. Rapeseed
Instructions
Slice only the oilseed crops.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 5, Land Resources and Agriculture._

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Kharif or rabi

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Upper category
Kharif
Lower category
Rabi
Items
  1. Category
    Kharif
    Item
    Rice
  2. Category
    Kharif
    Item
    Cotton
  3. Category
    Kharif
    Item
    Jute
  4. Category
    Kharif
    Item
    Bajra
  5. Category
    Rabi
    Item
    Wheat
  6. Category
    Rabi
    Item
    Gram
  7. Category
    Rabi
    Item
    Mustard
  8. Category
    Rabi
    Item
    Sarson
Instructions
Send each crop to the season it is sown in.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 5, Land Resources and Agriculture._

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