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There are _ Nuclear Power Plants in India.
Which state is the largest producer of Bauxite in India?
Odisha
______ is the highest quality of hard coal?
Anthracite
Give two examples of Publicly owned industrial sectors
BHEL - Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
SAIL - Steel Authority of India Limited
How are industries classified on the basis of raw materials?
Agro-based Industries
Mineral Based Industries
When and where was the first successful textile mill established in India
Mumbai, 1854
What are the three major types of minerals?
Metallic Minerals
Non-metallic minerals
Energy Minerals
Which of the following is not a Thermal Power Plant in India?
A - Parli
B - Rawat Bhata
C - Satpura
D - Korba
What are the 4 sectors of industries on the basis of ownership?
Public Sectors
Private Sectors
Joint Sector Industries
Cooperative Sector Industries
Why are the Iron and steel industries the basic industry that all other industries depend on?
The iron and steel industry is the basic industry since all the other industries - heavy, medium, and light, depend on it for their machinery. Steel is needed to manufacture a variety of engineering goods, construction materials, defense, medical, telephonic, and scientific equipment, and a variety of consumer goods.
Which two states produce more than 50% of the Manganese in our country?
Maharashtra (27%) and Madhya Pradesh (33%)
Elaborate on the Durg-Bastar-Chandrapur iron ore belt.
Durg-Bastar-Chandrapur belt lies in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra. Very high-grade hematites are found in the famous Bailadila range of hills in the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh. The range of hills comprises 14 deposits of super high-grade hematite iron ore. It has the best physical properties needed for steel] making. Iron ore from these mines is exported to Japan and South Korea via Vishakhapatnam port.
What are the 2 main ways electricity is generated and why is its percapita consumption considered as an index of development?
Hydroelectricity is generated by fast-flowing water
Thermal electricity is generated by burning fuels such as coal and petroleum
Due to electricity's wide range of uses its percapita consumption considered as an index of development
Elaborate on the Jute Textile Industry
India is the largest producer of raw jute and jute goods and stands in second place as an exporter after Bangladesh. Most of the mills are located in West Bengal.
Challenges faced by the industry include stiff competition in the international market from synthetic substitutes and from other competitors like Bangladesh, Brazil and Egypt
The main markets are the U.S.A., Canada, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, the U.K., and Australia. The growing global concern for environment-friendly, biodegradable materials has once again opened the opportunity for jute products.
Elaborate on the Automobile Industry in India.
Automobiles provide vehicles for quick transport of good services and passengers. Trucks, buses, cars, motorcycles, scooters, three-wheelers, and multi-utility vehicles are manufactured in India at various centers. After the liberalization, the coming of new and contemporary models stimulated the demand for vehicles in the market, which led to the healthy growth of the industry including passenger cars, two and three-wheelers. The industry is located around Delhi, Gurugram, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Indore, Hyderabad, Jamshedpur and Bengaluru.
What is the ratio of Iron ore to coking coal to limestone required in the production of steel
Approximately 4 : 2: 1
What are the uses of Mica and where is it mostly found?
Mica is a mineral made up of a series of plates or leaves. It splits easily into thin sheets. These sheets can be so thin that a thousand can be layered into a mica sheet a few centimeters high. Due to its excellent di-electric strength, low power loss factor, insulating properties, and resistance to high voltage, mica is one of the most indispensable minerals used in electric and electronic industries.
Mica deposits are found in the northern edge of the Chota Nagpur plateau. Koderma Gaya - Hazaribagh belt of Jharkhand is the leading producer.
Why is there a pressing need to use non-conventional sources of energy?
The growing consumption of energy has resulted in the country becoming increasingly dependent on fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas. Rising prices of oil and gas and their potential shortages have raised uncertainties about the security of the energy supply in the future, which in turn has serious repercussions on the growth of the national economy. Moreover, the increasing use of fossil fuels also causes serious environmental problems.
What is the difference between Joint Sector Industries and Cooperative Sector Industries?
Joint sector industries are jointly run by the state and individuals or a group of individuals. Oil India Lid. (OIL) is jointly owned by the public and private sectors.
Cooperative sector industries are owned and operated by the producers or suppliers of raw materials, workers, or both. They pool the resources and share the profits or losses proportionately. Such examples are the sugar industry in Maharashtra, the coir industry in Kerala.
Differentiate between the Organic and Inorganic sectors of the Chemical Industry in India.
Inorganic chemicals include sulphuric acid, nitric acid, alkalies, soda ash, and caustic soda. These industries are widely spread over the country.
Organic chemicals include petrochemicals, which are used for the manufacturing of synthetic fibers, plastics, drugs, and pharmaceuticals. Organic chemical plants are located near oil refineries or petrochemical plants.
What are the sources of energy that meet over 70% of a rural household's energy consumption?
Firewood and Cattle dung cake
We are rapidly consuming mineral resources that required millions of years to be created and concentrated. The geological processes of mineral formation are so slow that the rates of replenishment are infinitely small in comparison to the present rates of consumption. Mineral resources are, therefore, finite and non-renewable. Rich mineral deposits are our country's extremely valuable but short-lived possessions. Continued extraction of ores leads to increasing costs as mineral extraction comes from greater depths along with decrease in quality.
Define Lignite, bituminous coal, and metallurgical coal
Lignite is a low-grade brown coal that is soft with high moisture content.
Coal that has been buried deep and subjected to increased temperatures is known as bituminous coal.
Metallurgical coal is high-grade bituminous coal which has a special value for smelting in blast furnaces
What is the importance of Manufacturing industries?
Manufacturing industries not only help in modernizing agriculture, but they also reduce the heavy dependence of people on agricultural income by providing them jobs in secondary and tertiary sectors.
Industrial development is a precondition for the eradication of unemployment and poverty in our country.
The export of manufactured goods expands trade and commerce and brings in much-needed foreign exchange.
Countries that transform their raw materials into a wide variety of finished goods of a higher value are prosperous.
Elaborate on the Cotton Industry
Answer about 6-7 points from the Textbook.