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Slice the fossil fuelsRead the answer and worked solution →Conventional or renewableRead the answer and worked solution →Which mineral beltRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Minerals bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A tiny workshop with one loom versus a giant car plant. On what basis are industries classed as large, medium, small and cottage?Read the answer and worked solution →Why are sugar mills built inside sugarcane growing areas?Read the answer and worked solution →Bokaro and Durgapur steel plants sit near coalfields. Bhadravati, Bhilai and Rourkela sit near what?Read the answer and worked solution →Aluminium smelters are often built next to power stations. Why?Read the answer and worked solution →Cotton textile mills sit in big cities like Mumbai and Surat rather than in cotton fields. Why?Read the answer and worked solution →Bhilai and Rourkela steel plants were set up in tribal areas. What was the reason?Read the answer and worked solution →The Tata steel plant gets water from which two rivers?Read the answer and worked solution →The Visvesvaraiya Iron and Steel Works at Bhadravati has no coal nearby. What power does it use?Read the answer and worked solution →Rourkela, Bhilai and Durgapur were set up during which Five Year Plan?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was the Steel Authority of India Limited created to manage the public sector plants?Read the answer and worked solution →Rourkela steel plant in Odisha was built in 1959 with which country's collaboration?Read the answer and worked solution →Bhilai steel plant in Chhattisgarh was built with help from which country?Read the answer and worked solution →Durgapur steel plant started production in 1962 with collaboration from which country?Read the answer and worked solution →Bokaro steel plant was set up in 1964 on a transport-cost principle by pairing it with which plant?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is India's first port-based steel plant, operating since 1992?Read the answer and worked solution →Ancient India was famous for a very fine cotton cloth. What was it called?Read the answer and worked solution →The first modern cotton mill in India was set up in 1854 in which city?Read the answer and worked solution →After Partition, India kept 409 mills but only what share of its cotton growing area?Read the answer and worked solution →Which State has the largest number of cotton mills, most of them spinning yarn?Read the answer and worked solution →Why must sugarcane be crushed within 24 hours of harvest?Read the answer and worked solution →Which State produces more than one-third of India's sugar?Read the answer and worked solution →Modern sugar industry in India dates to 1903, when a mill started in which State?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the steel plantsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the cotton centresRead the answer and worked solution →Run the collaboratorsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the fossil fuels

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Does not match the category
  1. Solar
  2. Wind
  3. Tidal
  4. Biomass
Matches the category
  1. Coal
  2. Petroleum
  3. Lignite
  4. Gas
  5. Uranium
  6. Thorium
Instructions
Slice only the conventional fossil and nuclear fuels.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 7, Mineral and Energy Resources._

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Conventional or renewable

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Upper category
Fossil
Lower category
Renewable
Items
  1. Category
    Fossil
    Item
    Coal
  2. Category
    Fossil
    Item
    Petroleum
  3. Category
    Fossil
    Item
    Lignite
  4. Category
    Fossil
    Item
    Nat. gas
  5. Category
    Renewable
    Item
    Solar
  6. Category
    Renewable
    Item
    Wind
  7. Category
    Renewable
    Item
    Tidal
  8. Category
    Renewable
    Item
    Geothermal
Instructions
Send each energy source to its type.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 7, Mineral and Energy Resources._

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Which mineral belt

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Items
  1. Group
    North-East
    Item
    Jharkhand
  2. Group
    North-East
    Item
    Odisha
  3. Group
    North-East
    Item
    Chhattisgarh
  4. Group
    South-West
    Item
    Karnataka
  5. Group
    South-West
    Item
    Goa
  6. Group
    South-West
    Item
    Kerala
  7. Group
    North-West
    Item
    Rajasthan
  8. Group
    North-West
    Item
    Gujarat
Groups
  1. Item
    North-East
  2. Item
    South-West
  3. Item
    North-West
Instructions
Drop each State onto the mineral belt it belongs to.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 7, Mineral and Energy Resources._

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