TextBook Solutions for Board of High School and Intermediate Education Uttar Pradesh Class 10 Social Science Contemporary India Chapter 3 Water Resources

Total volume of fresh water of the world’s water is estimated

• Only 2.5 per cent

• Only 1.5 per cent

• Only 3.5 per cent

• Only 4.5 per cent

The total volume of world’s water is estimate to exist as oceans is

• 16.5 per cent

• 96.5 per cent

• 26.5 per cent

• 1.5 per cent

Multipurpose projects have been proclaimed ‘Temples of modern India’ by

• M.K. Gandhi

• Atal Bihari Vajpayee

• Jawahar Lal Nehru

• Mrs. Indira Gandhi

Tehri Dam Andolan is mainly concerned with the state of

• Uttarakhand

• Jharkhand

• Chhattisgarh

• None of these states

Bhakra Nangal is constructed on river

• Ganga

• Mahanadi

• Kaveri

• Satluj

Damodar Valley Project is situated on the river

• Satluj

• Kosi

• Yamuna

• Damodar

Indira Gandhi Nahar or Rajasthan Canal is concerned with the states of

• Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan

• Rajasthan, Bihar and West Bengal

• Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh

• Rajasthan, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh

The longest dam in the world is

• Hirakund

• Bhakra Dam

• Nagarjuna Sagar Dam

• Tungabhadra Dam

Choose the region out of the following which suffer (generally) from water-scarcity

• Rajasthan

• Kutch

• Uttarakhand

• Uttar Pradesh

Which purpose is served by the Multipurpose Projects?

• To irrigate the land

• To fill land

• To uproot the people

• To make the land better