NCRT CLASS 8 SOCIAL SCIENCE - GEOGRAPHY
CHAPTER 1 - RESOURCES
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1.What is the application of latest knowledge and skill in doing or making things?
a. Resource
b. Technology
c. Utility
d. Skill
Answer: Technology
Justification: Technology defines the application of scientific or the latest knowledge and
receiving practical result.
2.Which is the example of natural resource?
a. Petrol
b. Paper
c. Compressed natural gas
d. Road
Answer: Petrol
Justification: Petrol is a natural resource which is drawn from nature and used for our needs
without much modification.
3.Which is the amount of resource available for use?
a. Stock of resource
b. Natural resource
c. Renewable resource
d. Patent
Answer: Stock of resource
Justification: It is defined as the amount of resource which is available for our use as of now.
4.Which is the resource which is replenished quickly?
a. Replenishable Resource
b. Renewable Resource
c. Human Resource
d. Non-Renewable Resource
Answer: Renewable Resource
Justification: Resource which will be renewed, replenished or which is unlimited in stock is
called a renewable resource.
5. Which resource needs a time of human life span to get replenished?
a. Animal Resource
b. Non-Renewable Resource
c. Human Resource
d. Renewable Resource
Answer: Non-Renewable Resource
Justification: Non-Renewable Resource is a resource where it needs hundreds of years to get
renewed.
6. Which of the following is a Human Resource?
a. People
b. Technology
c. School
d. Digital Board
Answer: People
Justification: People is human resource because they use knowledge, skill etc., and develop
new things.
7. Resources being used carefully and letting them get renewed is called?
a. Renewable Resource
b. Non-Renewable Resource
c. Resource Conservation
d. Sustainable Development
Answer: Resource Conservation
Justification: Leaving the resources to get replenished and using them very carefully without
wasting them is called resource conservation.
8. Conserving the resource for future use and balancing the use is called?
a. Resource Conservation
b. Stock of Resource
c. Conservation of Resource
d. Sustainable Development
Answer: Sustainable Development
Justification: Balancing the use of the resource and conserving them for the future use is
called sustainable development.
9. Complete the following statement
Renewable resources are
a. Made by human beings
b. Resources which can be replenished
c. Resources which need to be used carefully
d. Resources which cannot be replenished
Answer: Resources which can be replenished
Justification: Resources which can be renewed and replenished is called as Renewable
Resource
10. Electricity is a
a. Human Resource
b. Renewable Resource
c. Human made Resource
d. Conserved Resource
Answer: Human Made Resource
Justification: Electricity is a resource which is developed by human ability and by using
technology.
