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Find the real nameRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the mineral wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Conventional or notRead the answer and worked solution →Which mineral is minedRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Minerals bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A farmer is told soil takes millions of years to form a few centimetres, yet it is called the most important ___ natural resource.Read the answer and worked solution →The entire northern plains are made of which soil?Read the answer and worked solution →Alluvial soil of the northern plains was deposited by the Indus, the Ganga and the:Read the answer and worked solution →Coarse alluvial soils in Duars, Chos and Terai are found in:Read the answer and worked solution →Old alluvium with more kanker nodules is called:Read the answer and worked solution →New alluvium, finer and more fertile than the old, is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Alluvial soils have potash, phosphoric acid and lime, ideal for sugarcane, paddy and:Read the answer and worked solution →Black soil is also called regur and is ideal for growing:Read the answer and worked solution →Black soil is typical of which rock region?Read the answer and worked solution →Black soil holds moisture well because it is made of extremely fine:Read the answer and worked solution →Deep cracks in black soil during hot weather help in:Read the answer and worked solution →Red soil develops on crystalline igneous rocks in areas of:Read the answer and worked solution →Red soil gets its colour from the diffusion of:Read the answer and worked solution →Laterite soil forms by intense leaching under a climate of alternate:Read the answer and worked solution →Laterite soils are acidic with a pH below:Read the answer and worked solution →In the hills of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, laterite soil is useful for growing:Read the answer and worked solution →Arid soils are sandy and:Read the answer and worked solution →In arid soils, water infiltration is restricted by a bottom layer of:Read the answer and worked solution →Running water cutting deep channels makes gullies; in the Chambal basin such bad lands are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Top soil washed away by water flowing as a sheet down a slope is:Read the answer and worked solution →Ploughing along contour lines to slow water down a slope is:Read the answer and worked solution →Cutting steps on slopes to restrict erosion, common in the western and central Himalayas, is:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the black soil factsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the soil typesRead the answer and worked solution →

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Find the real name

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Questions
  1. Correct
    Hematite
    Choices
    1. Hematite
    2. Hemitite
    3. Hematyte
  2. Correct
    Bauxite
    Choices
    1. Bauxyte
    2. Bauxite
    3. Boxite
  3. Correct
    Lignite
    Choices
    1. Lignyte
    2. Ligneet
    3. Lignite
  4. Correct
    Kudremukh
    Choices
    1. Kudremukh
    2. Kudremuk
    3. Kudrimukh
  5. Correct
    Bailadila
    Choices
    1. Bailadela
    2. Bailadila
    3. Bailadeela
  6. Correct
    Neyveli
    Choices
    1. Neyvelli
    2. Nayveli
    3. Neyveli
Instructions
Pick the lane with the real mineral or mine name. The other two are made up.
_Source: syllabus Geography, Contemporary India II, Chapter 5, Minerals and Energy Resources._

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Slice the mineral words

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Does not match the category
  1. Comet
  2. Sonnet
  3. Retina
  4. Piston
Matches the category
  1. Ore
  2. Vein
  3. Lode
  4. Placer
  5. Mica
  6. Lignite
Instructions
Slice only the words from minerals and mining.
_Source: syllabus Geography, Contemporary India II, Chapter 5, Minerals and Energy Resources._

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Conventional or not

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Upper category
Convention
Lower category
Non-conv
Items
  1. Category
    Convention
    Item
    Coal
  2. Category
    Convention
    Item
    Petroleum
  3. Category
    Convention
    Item
    Firewood
  4. Category
    Convention
    Item
    Dung cake
  5. Category
    Non-conv
    Item
    Solar
  6. Category
    Non-conv
    Item
    Wind
  7. Category
    Non-conv
    Item
    Tidal
  8. Category
    Non-conv
    Item
    Biogas
  9. Category
    Non-conv
    Item
    Geothermal
Instructions
Send each energy source to its group.
_Source: syllabus Geography, Contemporary India II, Chapter 5, Minerals and Energy Resources._

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