worksheet

Subject-civics
Class-x
Ch-AGRICULTURE AND MINERALS AND ENERGY
RESOURCES
Short questions answers
1. Rabi crops- wheat, barley, oats, gram, mustard, linseed. Kharif crops- rice, maize,
millet, rabi, pulses, soybean, groundnut.
2. Rabi Crops are harvested in the spring season while it is sown in winter. The rabi
crops are sown around mid-November, preferably after the monsoon rains are
over, and harvesting begins in April / May. The crops are grown either with
rainwater that has percolated into the ground or using irrigation.
3. Maharashtra
4. Wheat and Maize
5. Karnataka
6. Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra
7. The mineral content of the ore must be in sufficient concentration to make its
extraction commercially viable. ii The type of formation or structure in which
minerals are found determines the relative ease with which mineral ores may be
mined. This also determines the cost of extraction.
8. a naturally occurring inorganic element or compound having an. orderly internal
structure and characteristic chemical composition, crystal form, and physical.
Propertie
9. Coal, oil, and natural gas
10. LPG and CNG stands for Liquefied Petroleum Gas and Compressed Natural Gas,

Long type questions

1. Due to globalisation, Indian farmers have faced increased difficulties, notably since
1990. India is a major producer of spices, jute, coffee, tea, rubber, cotton and rice.
However, our agricultural products cannot compete with industrialized nations
because of their heavily subsidized agriculture.
2. (i) It is practised on small patches of land with the help of primitive tools. (ii) Tools
which are used are basically traditional tools such as hoe, dao and digging stick. (iii)
This type of agriculture totally depends upon monsoon. (iv) When the soil fertility
decreases, the farmers shift to another plot of land.
3. In India majority of the coal-fields are found in the eastern part. The maximum
concentration of coalfield in the north-eastern part of the peninsular plateau of India
comprising parts of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and eastern Madhya Pradesh
and western part of West Bengal adjoining Jharkhand.
4. Petroleum is a major energy source in India after coal. The two advantages of
petroleum are:i It provides fuel for heat and lighting lubricants for machinery and
raw materials for a number of manufacturing industries.
5. The conventional sources of energy are fossil fuel, CNG, coal, oil, natural gas. The
conventional sources of energy are non renewable by any natural process and Non-
conventional sources of energy that are continuously recycled by Natural processes.
These sources are also known as alternative energy sources