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Class 10 Social Science Geography Chapter 6 Manufacturing Industries MCQ

1. Which one of the following has been major source of foreign exchange for IT industry?
(a) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)
(b) Oil India Limited (OIL)
(c) Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)
(d) Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)

Answer: (d) Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)

2. Which of the following led to expansionof the fertiliser industry?
(a) Liberalisation and foreign direct investment
(b) MNCs (multinational corporations)
(c) The Green Revolution
(d) All the above

Answer: (c) The Green Revolution

3. Many industries tend to come together to make use of the advantages offered by the urban centres known as agglomeration economies. Which of the following are the main advantages provided by cities to industries?
(a) Market and services
(b) Agricultural products and minerals
(c) Power supply
(d) Suitable climate and services

Answer: (a) Market and services

4. In what ratio are iron ore, coking coal and limestone required to make steel?
(a) 4 : 2 : 1
(b) 4 : 1 : 2
(c) 4 : 3 : 1
(d) 4 : 3 : 2

Answer: (a) 4 : 2 : 1

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5. Which of the following industries hasbeen a major foreign exchange earner in the last few years?
(a) Electronics Industry
(b) Information Technology Industry
(c) Engineering Industry
(d) Tourism Industry

Answer: (b) Information Technology Industry

6. Which one of the following factors plays the most important role in the location of an industry in a particular region?
(a) Raw material
(b) Market
(c) Least production cost
(d) Transport

Answer:(c) Least production cost

7. Which one of the following groups of factors is a prime group for the location of aluminium smelting plant?
(a) Capital and market
(b) Raw material and electricity
(c) Labour and raw material
(d) Capital and transport

Answer: (b) Raw material and electricity

8. Which of the following cities is the electronic capital of India?
(a) Delhi
(b) Mumbai
(c) Bengaluru
(d) Hyderabad

Answer: (c) Bengaluru

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9. How can industrialisation assist in bringing in foreign exchange?
(a) Modernisation of agriculture
(b) Removing dependence on agriculture by providing alternative employment
(c) Export of manufactured goods
(d) Import of manufactured goods

Answer: (c) Export of manufactured goods

10. Which of the following industries is not a heavy industriy.
(a) Cotton textile
(b) Cement
(c) Iron and Steel
(d) Ship building

Answer: (a) Cotton textile

11. Which one of the following is not true regarding the National Jute Policy of 2005?
(a) Creating awareness about the use of biodegradable materials
(b) Ensuring good prices to the jute farmers
(c) Increasing productivity
(d) Improving quality of jute

Answer: (a) Creating awareness about the use of biodegradable materials

12. What is the correct meaning of agglomeration economies?
(a) Many industries set up in rural centres
(b) Industries are basically agro-based.
(c) Many industries tend to come together to make use of the advantages offered by the urban centres
(d) Industries set up produce raw material for secondary sector.

Answer: (c) Many industries tend to come together to make use of the advantages offered by the urban centres

13. In which of the following groups of cities were most of the manufacturing units located in the pre-independence period?
(a) Delhi, Kanpur, Moradabad
(b) Bangalore – Hyderabad
(c) Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai
(d) Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Amritsar.

Answer: (c) Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai

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14. Which one of the following industries manufactures telephones, computer, etc.?
(a) Cement
(b) Iron and Steel
(c) Electronic
(d) Chemical

Answer: (c) Electronic

15. What is per capita consumption of steel per annum in India?
(a) 28 kg
(b) 30 kg
(c) 32 kg
(d) 34 kg

Answer: (c) 32 kg

16. The economic strength of the country is measured by which of the following developments?
(a) The development of the manufacturing industries.
(b) The development of the literacy ratio.
(c) The development of the health status.
(d) The development of the population growth.

Answer: (a) The development of the manufacturing industries.

17. Which one of the following public sector plants is located in Chhattisgarh?
(a) Bokaro Steel Plant
(b) Bhilai Steel Plant
(c) Durgapur Steel Plant
(d) Rourkela Steel Plant

Answer: (b) Bhilai Steel Plant

18. Which of the following factors are not necessary to set up an iron and steel plant?
(a) Proximity to iron-ore mines
(b) Availability of coking coal
(c) Good resources of limestone and manganese
(d) Nearness to a water body to discharge wastes

Answer: (d) Nearness to a water body to discharge wastes

19. The first successful textile mill was established in:
(a) Delhi
(b) Vishakhapattnam
(c) Chennai
(d) Mumbai (Bombay)

Answer: (d) Mumbai (Bombay)

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20. Which of the following is not a factor of production?
(a) Land
(b) Raw materials
(c) Capital
(d) Enterprise

Answer: (b) Raw materials

21. Air pollution is caused by
(a) Organic and inorganic industrial effluents discharged into rivers.
(b) Presence of high proportion of sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and air-borne particulate materials.
(c) Unwanted sounds from industries, generators, saws and pneumatic and electric drills.
(d) Overdrawing of groundwater.

Answer: (b) Presence of high proportion of sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and air-borne particulate materials.

22. Which one of the following is not true regarding the Iron and Steel industry in India?
(a) India is the largest producer of sponge iron.
(b) Most of the public sector undertakings market their steel through the Steel Authority of India.
(c) Chhotanagpur Plateau region has the maximum concentration of iron and steel industries.
(d) As a leading iron and steel producing country, India does not need to import steel from other countries.

Answer: (d) As a leading iron and steel producing country, India does not need to import steel from other countries.

23. Which of the following public sector steel plants of India is located near a port?
(a) Durgapur
(b) Vijaynagar
(c) Bhadravati
(d) Vishakhapatnam

Answer: (d) Vishakhapatnam

24. Which one of the following agencies, markets steel for the public sector plants?
(a) HAIL
(b) SAIL
(c) TATA Steel
(d) MNCC

Answer: (b) SAIL

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25. Most of the integrated steel plants in India are located in
(a) Malwa Plateau
(b) Bundelkhand Plateau
(c) Meghalaya Plateau
(d) Chotanagpur Plateau

Answer: (d) Chotanagpur Plateau

26. Which one of the following air services provides services to Oil and Natural Gas Commission in its off-shore operations?
(a) Indian Airlines
(b) Air India
(c) Pawanhans Helicopters LTD
(d) Alliance

Answer: (c) Pawanhans Helicopters LTD

27. Which one of the following is not a centre of Automobile industry ?
(a) Chennai
(b) Bengaluru
(c) Jamshedpur
(d) Coimbatore

Answer: (d) Coimbatore

28. Which are the two prime factors for the location of aluminium industry?
(a) Market and labour
(b) Transport network and water supply
(c) Cheap and regular supply of electricity and bauxite
(d) None of the above

Answer: (c) Cheap and regular supply of electricity and bauxite

29. Which one of the following factors has once again opened the opportunity for jute product?
(a) Increasing concern for the use of biodegradable materials
(b) Increasing productivity
(c) Enhancing the yield per hectare
(d) Improving quality

Answer: (a) Increasing concern for the use of biodegradable materials

30. The first cement plant was set up in India in 1904 in
(a) Jamshedpur
(b) Hyderabad
(c) Nagpur
(d) Chennai

Answer: (d) Chennai

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31. Manufacturing Industries are placed in:
(a) Primary sector
(b) Secondary sector
(c) Tertiary sector
(d) Service sector

Answer: (b) Secondary sector

32. Oil India Limited (OIL) belongs to which of the following types of industries?
(a) Public sector
(b) Private sector
(c) Joint sector
(d) Cooperative sector

Answer: (c) Joint sector

33. Leading centre of woollen textile industry in Punjab
(a) Kanpur
(b) Ludhiana
(c) Murshidabad
(d) Panipat

Answer: (d) Panipat

34. Which of the following group of factors is a prime group for the location of aluminium smelting plant?
(a) Capital and Market
(b) Raw material and Electricity
(c) Labour and Raw material
(d) Capital and Transport

Answer: (b) Raw material and Electricity

35. Which one of the following steel plants is located in Chhattisgarh?
(a) Bokaro
(b) Durgapur
(c) Bhilai
(d) Rourkela

Answer: (c) Bhilai

36. Which of the following techniques of cotton textile production came into use after the 18th century?
(a) Powerlooms
(b) Hand-spinning
(c) Handloom weaving
(d) Zari embroidery

Answer: (a) Powerlooms

37. Which one of the following industries uses bauxite as a raw material?
(a) Aluminium
(b) Cement
(c) Jute
(d) Steel

Answer: (d) Steel

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38. Which one of the following countries has the largest installed capacity of spindles in the world?
(a) India
(b) China
(c) USA
(d) Britain

Answer: (b) China

39. Which one of the following cities is known as electronic capital of India ?
(a) Srinagar
(b) Noida
(c) Bengaluru
(d) Pune

Answer: (c) Bengaluru

40. Which of the following inorganic chemicals is used for the making of glass, soaps, detergents and paper?
(a) Soda ash
(b) Sulphuric acid
(c) Nitric acid
(d) Alkalies

Answer: (a) Soda ash

41. Which one of the following air services provides services to Oil and Natural Gas Commission in its off-shore operations?
(a) Indian Airlines
(b) Air India
(c) Pawan hans Helicopters LTD
(d) Alliance

Answer: (c) Pawanhans Helicopters LTD

42. Most of the sugar industries are ideally suited to:
(a) Private sector
(b) Joint sector
(c) Cooperative sector
(d) Public sector

Answer: (c) Cooperative sector

43. Which of the following industries is in private sector?
(a) Dabur
(b) BHEL
(c) SAIL
(d) HINDALCO

Answer: (a) Dabur

44. What is the correct meaning of agglomeration economies?
(a) Many industries set up in rural centres
(b) Industries are basically agro-based.
(c) Many industries tend to come together to make use of the advantages offered by the urban centres
(d) Industries set up produce raw material for secondary sector.

Answer: (c) Many industries tend to come together to make use of the advantages offered by the urban centres

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45. Small scale and large scale industries are classified on which basis?
(a) Capital investment
(b) Ownership
(c) Main role
(d) Source of raw materials

Answer: (a) Capital investment

46. Which of the following statements regarding manufacturing is not true?
(a) Manufacturing helps in modernising agriculture.
(b) Development of manufacturing industries is a precondition for eradication of unemployment and poverty.
(c) Export of manufactured goods expands trade and commerce and brings in much needed foreign exchange.
(d) Manufacturing puts the country into a debt trap.

Answer: (d) Manufacturing puts the country into a debt trap

47. Which of the following industries has been a major foreign exchange earner in the last few years?
(a) Electronics Industry
(b) Information Technology Industry
(c) Engineering Industry
(d) Tourism Industry

Answer: (b) Information Technology Industry

48. Many industries tend to come together to make use of the advantages offered by the urban centres known as agglomeration economies. Which of the following are the main advantages provided by cities to industries?
(a) Market and services
(b) Agricultural products and minerals
(c) Power supply
(d) Suitable climate and services

Answer: (a) Market and services

49. Which of the following developments usually follows industrial activity?
(a) Agriculture
(b) Urbanisation
(c) Electrification
(d) Mining

Answer: (b) Urbanisation

50. Which of the following is an electronics industry?
(a) HMT, Bengaluru
(b) TISCO, Jamshedpur
(c) BHEL, Hyderabad
(d) BALCO, Korba

Answer: (c) BHEL, Hyderabad

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