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Class 10 Social Science Geography Chapter 7 Lifelines of National Economy MCQ

1. Which one of the following groups of cities is connected by the National Highway No. 1?
(a) Kolkata-Amritsar
(b) Ranchi-Kolkata
(c) Delhi-Punjab
(d) Varanasi-Kanyakumari

Answer: (c) Delhi-Punjab

2. In recent years, India is earning large foreign exchange through the export of which of the following?
(a) Ores and Minerals
(b) Information Technology
(c) Agricultural Products
(d) Electrical goods

Answer: (b) Information Technology

3. Which of the following types of roads received special impetus under the Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojana?
(a) National Highways
(b) State Highways
(c) Rural Roads
(d) District Roads

Answer: (c) Rural Roads

4. What is the name given to the International Airport at Kolkata?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Meenambakkam
(c) Rajiv Gandhi
(d) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

Answer: (d) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

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5. National Waterway No. 1 is navigable between which of the following places?
(a) Sadiya and Dhubri
(b) Allahabad and Haldia
(c) Udyogamandal and Champakkara
(d) Kottapuram and Komman

Answer: (b) Allahabad and Haldia

6. Which one of the following modes of transportation reduces tran-shipment losses and delays in the supply of petroleum and gases?
(a) Railways
(b) Roadways
(c) Pipeline
(d) Waterways

Answer: (c) Pipeline

7. India has one of the largest networks of which of the following modes of transport?
(a) Roadways
(b) Railways
(c) Waterways
(d) Pipelines

Answer: (a) Roadways

8. Which one of the following is an inland riverine port?
(a) Kandla
(b) Kolkata
(c) Mumbai
(d) Tuticorin

Answer: (b) Kolkata

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9. Which one of the following ports is the biggest with a spacious natural and well-sheltered harbour?
(a) Kolkata
(b) Chennai
(c) Mumbai
(d) Vishakhapatnam

Answer: (c) Mumbai

10. Which one of the following is not true regarding the sea ports of India?
(a) Mumbai is the biggest port with a spacious natural and well sheltered harbour.
(b) Tuticorin Port in Tamil Nadu has a natural harbour and hinterland.
(c) Vishakhapatnam is the deepest landlocked and well protected port.
(d) Chennai is an inland riverine port.

Answer: (d) Chennai is an inland riverine port.

11. When and between which two stations did the first train of India steam off?
(a) Kolkata to Raniganj, 1874
(b) Mumbai to Thane, 1853
(c) Mumbai to Ahmedabad, 1854
(d) Chennai to Arkonam, 1856

Answer: (b) Mumbai to Thane, 1853

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12. Which port was developed as a subsidiary port in order to relieve growing pressure on the Kolkata port.
(a) Haldia
(b) Kochi
(c) Kandla
(d) Vishakhapatnam

Answer: (a) Haldia

13. Which one of the following groups of cities is connected by the National Highway No. 1?
(a) Delhi – Amritsar
(b) Delhi – Kolkata
(c) Delhi – Mumbai
(d) Varanasi – Kanyakumari

Answer: (a) Delhi – Amritsar

14. The means for the movement of goods and services from their supply locations to demand locations can be termed as which of the following?
(a) Capital
(b) Traders
(c) Transport system
(d) Power supply

Answer: (c) Transport system

15. Which one of the following is not the means of mass communication?
(a) Cards and envelopes
(b) Radio
(c) Newspaper
(d) Films

Answer: (a) Cards and envelopes

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16. Which one of the following is considered as the first-class mail by the Indian postal network?
(a) Cards and envelopes
(b) Registered periodicals
(c) Book packets
(d) Registered newspapers

Answer: (a) Cards and envelopes

17. The largest number of newspapers published in India are in which of the following languages?
(a) Hindi
(b) English
(c) Urdu
(d) Marathi

Answer: (a) Hindi

18. Which of the following National Highways is the longest in the country?
(a) National Highway No. 8
(b) National Highway No. 7
(c) National Highway No. 4
(d) National Highway No. 2

Answer: (b) National Highway No. 7

19. The longest pipeline connects
(a) Hazira to Kanpur
(b) Salaya to Jalandhar
(c) Flazira to Jagdishpur
(d) Koyali to Haldia

Answer: (c) Flazira to Jagdishpur

20. Which one of the following is the southernmost international airport in India?
(a) Nedimbacherry
(b) Chhatrapati Shivaji
(c) Raja Sansi
(d) Meenam Bakkam

Answer: (a) Nedimbacherry

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21. Which is the extreme south-western port located at the entrance of a lagoon with a natural harbour?
(a) Tuticorin
(b) Chennai
(c) Kochi
(d) New Mangalore

Answer: (c) Kochi

22. Which of the following modes of transport is fuel efficient and environment friendly?
(a) Roadways
(b) Railways
(c) Airways
(d) Waterways

Answer: (d) Waterways

23. Narrow Gauge railway line is found in
(a) the Northern Plains
(b) the hilly areas of Darjeeling, Shillong and Ooty
(c) deserts of Rajasthan
(d) the Central Highlands

Answer: (b) the hilly areas of Darjeeling, Shillong and Ooty

24. The helicopter services to Oil and Natural Commission in its offshore operations are provided by:
(a) Air India
(b) Indian Airlines
(c) Pawanhans helicopters
(d) Alliance Air

Answer: (c) Pawanhans helicopters

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25. Difference between the total value of exports and imports is called.
(a) Balance of Payment
(b) Balance of Trade
(c) Surplus Budget
(d) Deficit Balance

Answer: (b) Balance of Trade

26. Which one of the following is not an advantage of pipeline transportation?
(a) Pipelines are used for transporting crude oil and gas from fields to refineries.
(b) Solids can be transported in slurry form through pipelines.
(c) Pipelines rule out trans-shipment losses or delays.
(d) Initial cost of laying a pipeline is high.

Answer: (d) Initial cost of laying a pipeline is high.

27. Which one of the following is considered as the First Class Mail by the Indian postal network?
(a) Cards and envelopes
(b) Registered periodicals
(c) Book packets
(d) Registered newspapers

Answer: (a) Cards and envelopes

28. Which of the following is a means of mass communication?
(a) Letters
(b) Television
(c) Telephones
(d) Telegraph

Answer: (b) Television

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29. Which organisation constructs and maintains roads in the border areas?
(a) NHAI
(b) BRO
(c) Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojana
(d) BSF

Answer: (b) BRO

30. Which one of the following is the premier iron ore exporting sea port of the country?
(a) New Mangalore
(b) Vishakhapatnam
(c) Marmagao
(d) Paradip

Answer: (c) Marmagao

31. Which two extreme locations are connected by the North-South Corridor?
(a) Amritsar and Tuticorin
(b) Srinagar and Tiruvananthapuram
(c) Srinagar and Tuticorin
(d) Srinagar and Kanyakumari

Answer: (d) Srinagar and Kanyakumari

32. Which one of the following countries has the largest telecom network in Asia?
(a) China
(b) Japan
(c) Pakistan
(d) India

Answer: (d) India

33. National Waterway No. 1 is navigable between which of the following places?
(a) Between Sadiya and Dhubri
(b) Between Allahabad and Haldia
(c) Between Kottapuram and Komman
(d) Between Udyogamandal and Champakkara

Answer: (b) Between Allahabad and Haldia

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34. National Highways are constructed and maintained by:
(a) NHAI
(b) CPWD
(c) SPWD
(d) BRO

Answer: (b) CPWD

35. STD refers to
(a) Suburban Telephone Dialing
(b) Subscriber Trunk Dialing
(c) Social Telephone Distributor
(d) Speed Telephone Dialing

Answer: (b) Subscriber Trunk Dialing

36. Which one of the following is not true regarding the sea ports of India?
(a) Mumbai is the biggest port with a spacious natural and well sheltered harbour.
(b) Tuticorin Port in Tamil Nadu has a natural harbour and hinterland.
(c) Vishakhapatnam is the deepest landlocked and well protected port.
(d) Chennai is an inland riverine port.

Answer: (d) Chennai is an inland riverine port.

37. Which one of the following ports is the deepest land – locked and well protected port along the east coast?
(a) Chennai
(b) Paradip
(c) Tuticorin
(d) Vishakhapatnam

Answer: (d) Vishakhapatnam

38. The people who make the products come to the consumers by transportation are called __ .
(a) Businessman
(b) Retailers
(c) Traders
(d) Industrialists

Answer: (c) Traders

39. Which of the following airlines is the nationalised airline of India?
(a) Air India
(b) Jet Airways
(c) Kingfisher Airline
(d) Indigo

Answer: (a) Air India

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40. The HVJ natural gas pipeline connects?
(a) Hazira, Vijaipur, Jagdishpur
(b) Hazira, Bareli, Jemshedpur
(c) Hazira, Bokaro, Jaipur
(d) None of these

Answer: (a) Hazira, Vijaipur, Jagdishpur

41. Which one of the following commodities does not belong to items of export?
(a) Gems and jewellery
(b) Agriculture and allied products
(c) Fertilizers
(d) Engineering Goods

Answer: (c) Fertilizers

42. Which one of the following types of communication service in India is the largest in the world?
(a) Postal network
(b) Television network
(c) Internet services
(d) Radio broadcasting

Answer: (a) Postal network

43. Which is the first class mail from the following?
(a) Book packets
(b) Registered newspapers
(c) Periodicals
(d) Envelopes

Answer: (d) Envelopes

44. Which two of the following extreme locations are connected by the east-west corridor? (Textbook)
(a) Mumbai and Nagpur
(b) Silchar and Porbandar
(c) Mumbai and Kolkata
(d) Nagpur and Siliguri

Answer: (b) Silchar and Porbandar

45. Which one of the following ports is a tidal port?
(a) Mumbai
(b) New Mangalore port
(c) Kandla
(d) Vishakhapatnam

Answer: (c) Kandla

46. Which one of the following terms is used to describe trade between two or more countries?
(a) Internal trade
(b) International trade
(c) External trade
(d) Local trade

Answer: (b) International trade

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47. Which of the following types of roads received special impetus under the Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojana?
(a) National Highways
(b) State Highways
(c) Rural Roads
(d) District Roads

Answer: (c) Rural Roads

48.What is the historical Sher Shah Suri Marg now called?
(a) NH 4
(b) NH 1
(c) NH 3
(d) NH 7

Answer: (b) NH 1

49. Roads linking a state capital with different district headquarters are known as
(a) National highways
(b) District roads
(c) State highways
(d) Other roads

Answer: (c) State highways

50. Which of the following is the busiest railway junction in Northern India?
(a) Ambala
(b) New Delhi
(c) Lucknow
(d) Amritsar

Answer: (b) New Delhi

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