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WORKSHEET BASED ON GEOGRAPHY
CLASS VIII
Name of the chapters

• Agriculture
• Industry
• Human resource
1)Which one of the following is considered as the ultimate resource?
(a) Human Resource

(b) Natural Resource
(c) Power Resource
(d) Mineral Resource
2) A few factors on which the productivity of a nation’s human resources

depends are given below. Pick out the one that is not a factor.
(a) Health
(b) Census
(c) Literacy
(d) Possession of technical skills
3) A population pyramid
(a) Shows the difference between the birth rate and death rate
(b) Shows the percent of males and females in a country with there are groups
(c) The number of years that an average person can expect to live
(d) Shows the structure of population with respect to their age
4) Osaka in Japan and Mumbai in India are two densely populated areas
bacause
(a) These areas are topographically favourable.
(b) These are areas of religious significance
(c) They are industrial belts providing large employment opportunities
(d) These are areas with excellent climatic conditions
5) Which of the following statements is false with respect to thinly populated
areas?
(a) Usually the high altitude areas and extremely cold zones are sparsely
populated.
(b) Climate here is inhospitable
(c) Very few people live in the equatorial forests.
(d) These regions enjoy an equable climate where there is adequate rainfall.
6)Assertion (A): Human resource is necessary for the progress of any country.
Reason (R): Investment in education and health of people can result in a high
rate of returns in the future for a country.
a. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) explains (A)
b. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) does not explain (A)
c. (A) is correct and (R) is false
d. (A) is false and (R) is true
7) Look at the picture given below and answer the following questions:
When do we say that there is zero growth?
(a) When birth rate is more than death rate.
(b) When birth rate and death rate both stay the same.
(c) When death rate is more than birth date.
(d) All of the above
8) Match the following:

Column A Column B
(i) Immigration (a) The tapering figure of people based on age,sex
(ii) Migration (b) Number of years for which an average man is expected to live
(iii) Emigration (c) In which people come and settle in a country
(iv) Population
(d) The movement of people in and out of area
Pyramid
(v) Life
(e) Movement of the people to other countries
expectancy
(vi) Emigrants (f) People coming into a country
(vii) Immigrants (g) People leaving the country
(a)1-c,2-d,3-e,4-a,5-b,6-g,7-f
(b)1-a,2-g,3-b,4-c,5-d,6-e,7-f
(c)1-a,2-b,3-c,4-d,5-e,6-f,7-g
(d)1-c,2-d,3-a,4-e,5-b,6-g,7-f
9) Roca(Slash and Burn) is an agricultural practices followed in

(a) Brazil
(b) Indonesia
(c) China
(d) Malaysia
10)Assertion (A) : Crops are grown depending upon the variations in soil,
climate and cultivation practices.
Reason(R): Crops are also grown according to availability of water.
a.Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) explains (A)
11) Agriculture or farming can be looked at as a system. Which one among the
following is not an important input of agriculture?
(a) Profit
(b) Fertilisers
(c) Seeds
(d) Labour
12) Match the following
Column A Column B
(i) Organic
(a) The practice of ploughing against the slopes on the hill
farming
(ii) Mixed
(b) In which organic materials and natural pesticides are used
farming
(iii) (c) In which herdsmen move place to place

Contour
ploughing with their livestock
(iv)
Nomadic (d) Farms, farms animals and farmers together
herding
(v) Farming (e) in which crops are raised and livestock are kept on the farm to have
ecosystem animal products
(a) 1-b,2-e,3-a,4-d,5-c
(b)1-b,2-e,3-a,4-c,5-d
(c)1-a,2-b,3-d,4-c,5-e
(d) 1-d,2-b,3-a,4-c,5-e
13) Banking, Insurance sectors etc can be a good example of which of the
following type of economic activity?
(a) Tertiary
(b) Primary
(c) Secondary
(d) Primary and Secondary
14)Assertion (A) : India’s primary activity is Agriculture.

Reason (R ): Two-thirds of its population is engaged in agricultural activities.
15) Look at the picture carefully and identify the type of farming.
(a) Commercial farming
(b) Subsistence farming
(c) Plantation
(d) Nomadic herding
16) The important inputs like seeds, fertilisers, machinery etc form a system
called as?
(a) Barter system
(b) Water system
(c) Farm system
(d) All of these
(17) Assertion (A): Bangalore has developed as the major IT centre in India.
Reason (R): The Government of Karnataka was the first to pass and announce
an IT Policy in 1992.
18) Manufacturing of fish oil is an example of _____ based industry.

a) Agro
b) Marine
c) Forest
d) Mineral
19) India’s first successful mechanized textile mill was established in ____.
(a) Surat
(b) Kolkata
(c) Madras
(d) Mumbai
20)TISCO was started in 1907 at
(a) Sakchi
(b) Mandakni
(c) Godavari
(d) Nagpur
21) Name the man-made fibre/s used in the textile industry?
(a) Nylon
(b) Rayon
(c) Both a and b
(d) None of these
22) The first successful mechanised textile mill was established in Mumbai in
(a) 1856
(b) 1857
(c) 1854
(d) 1852
23) Look at the picture given below and answer the following question-
(i) The iron and steel industry before 1800 A.D. were located
where_______________________________
(a) Raw materials were available
(b) Water was availabe
(c)Transport facility was available
(d) All of the above
24) What process does the iron ore undergo in a blast furnace?
(a) Smelting
(b) Refining
(c) Extraction
(d) None of these
25) Rearing of fish is called-
(a) sericulture
(b) horticulture
(c) pisciculture
(d) agriculture
26)Look at the following given map of India and identify the marked places
with the help of clues.
i)Out of (a) and (b)which one of the states produces wheat?Also identify the
name of the state.
A.(a)UP
B.(b)West Bengal
C.(a)Madhya Pradesh
D.(b)Odisha
ii)Out of (c) and (d)which one of the states produces coffee?Also identify the
name of the state.
A.(c)Punjab
B.(d)Kerala
C.(c)Karnataka
D.(d)Karnataka
27)Identify the marked states with the help of the given clue.
(i)the Union territory with highest population
(ii)the state with lowest literacy rate

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WORKSHEET BASED ON GEOGRAPHY

Name of the chapters

1)Which one of the following is considered as the ultimate resource?

(a) Human Resource

2) A few factors on which the productivity of a nation’s human resources

When do we say that there is zero growth?

(a) When birth rate is more than death rate.

(c) When death rate is more than birth date.

(d) All of the above

8) Match the following:

(i) Immigration (a) The tapering figure of people based on age,sex

(iii) Emigration (c) In which people come and settle in a country

(vi) Emigrants (f) People coming into a country

(vii) Immigrants (g) People leaving the country

9) Roca(Slash and Burn) is an agricultural practices followed in

12) Match the following

(iii) (c) In which herdsmen move place to place

14)Assertion (A) : India’s primary activity is Agriculture.

18) Manufacturing of fish oil is an example of _____ based industry.

21) Name the man-made fibre/s used in the textile industry?

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