This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian Geography > Resources > Mineral And Energy Resources – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Mineral And Energy Resources Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Inexhaustible energy resource that is used to power the Hubble Space Telescope A) Solar energy. B) Biomass energy. C) Hydroelectric energy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solar energy. 2. What is biodegradable? A) Acid rain. B) Something capable of decomposition. C) Plastic rain. D) Ants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Something capable of decomposition. 3. Economically Depleted A) Removing chunks of overburden terraces or strips are cut into the side of a hill or mountain in order to lessen the likelihood of erosion or sudden mass wasting events. B) Structure built on a river that restricts the flow of water up until that point. Used for forming reservoirs for irrigation, drinking, manufacturing, creation of electrical energy, etc. C) A reserve that is being depleted to the point where it could be more expensive to extract and refine it than it can be sold for. D) Hydrocarbons that have been formed from the organic remains of prehistoric plants and animals and can be used as a source of energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A reserve that is being depleted to the point where it could be more expensive to extract and refine it than it can be sold for. 4. Method of natural gas extraction also known as "fracking." A) Hydroelectric Power. B) Hazardous Waste. C) Hydraulic Fracturing. D) Geothermal Energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hydraulic Fracturing. 5. Created from turbines that are spun by the mechanical energy of flowing water. A) Geothermal Energy. B) Hydraulic Fracturing. C) Hazardous Waste. D) Hydroelectric Power. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hydroelectric Power. 6. Any discarded substance that poses a potential risk to the health of humans or other organisms. A) Geothermal Energy. B) Hazardous Waste. C) Hydraulic Fracturing. D) Hydroelectric Power. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hazardous Waste. 7. Mountaintop Removal A) Composed primarily of methane (CH4). Formed from plants and animals that were buried deep within the ocean floor. B) Resources that cannot be replaced. C) An inorganic compound or element that has a regular crystalline structure. D) Mining where explosives or heavy machinery are used to literally remove the top of a mountain in order to obtain valuable mineral resources within that mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mining where explosives or heavy machinery are used to literally remove the top of a mountain in order to obtain valuable mineral resources within that mountain. 8. Stored in the earth's mantle that can be used to produce electricity as well as to heat and cool homes. A) Geothermal Energy. B) Hydraulic Fracturing. C) Hydroelectric Power. D) Hazardous Waste. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geothermal Energy. 9. Manikaran (Himachal Pradesh) is popular for production of A) Solar Energy. B) Tidal Energy. C) Geothermal Energy. D) Wind Energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geothermal Energy. 10. Which is the first step in coal formation? A) Lignite. B) Bituminous coal. C) Peat. D) Anthracite coal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peat. 11. Nuclear energy is released during? A) Prom. B) Nuclear fission. C) Chemical solvents. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nuclear fission. 12. What is the waste material that must be separated from an ore? A) Smelter. B) Gangue. C) Petroleum. D) Mineral resource. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gangue. 13. What is landfill trash A) School lunch. B) Disposal of waste by burial. C) Car. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disposal of waste by burial. 14. How can reclamation affect land? A) Cultivation of waste under water. B) Boat. C) Carbon monoxide. D) Eggs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cultivation of waste under water. 15. Which has the highest content of carbon? A) Peat. B) Anthracite coal. C) Bituminous coal. D) Lignite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anthracite coal. 16. In which of the following places establishment of the Atomic Energy Institute took place in 1954 A) Trombay. B) Narora. C) Tarapur. D) Kalpakkam. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trombay. 17. Energy resource that is based on fission A) Nuclear energy. B) Geothermal energy. C) Biomass energy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nuclear energy. 18. Method of conservation in which items are processed to be used again A) Recycling. B) Reserve. C) Biomass energy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Recycling. 19. By what other name organic fuel is reffered A) Metallic. B) Non-metallic. C) Non-ferrous. D) Mineral fuel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mineral fuel. 20. What is an important use of petroleum? A) Making plaster. B) Making glass. C) Making gasoline. D) As abrasives. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Making gasoline. 21. Which non-metallic minerals are of inorganic origin A) Asbestos. B) Granite. C) Limestone. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 22. Chemical containing liquid that is formed when water or other fluids soak through layers of solid waste. A) Hydrothermal Solution. B) Incinerate. C) Landfills. D) Leachate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leachate. 23. Which vast alluvial plain tract of ..... is devoid of minerals of economic use. A) South India. B) West-India. C) East India. D) North India. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) North India. 24. Which mineral is also known as 'liquid gold'? A) Water. B) Petroleum. C) Mercury. D) Coal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Petroleum. 25. Refers primarily to plant materials and animal wastes that can be burned for the purpose of providing heat or electricity A) Anthracite. B) Coal. C) Biofuel. D) Biomass. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biomass. 26. What is hydro energy? A) A generator. B) Energy stored in atoms. C) A boat. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Energy stored in atoms. 27. A solid fossil fuel made mostly of carbon with small amounts of sulfur and mercury A) Anthracite. B) Coal. C) Biofuel. D) Biomass. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coal. 28. Fuel that is composed mainly of the remains of dead plants A) Coal. B) Geothermal energy. C) Hydroelectric energy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coal. 29. Also known as hard coal A) Anthracite. B) Biomass. C) Coal. D) Biofuel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anthracite. 30. Alternative energy is? A) Solar panel. B) Cactus. C) Fossil fuels. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fossil fuels. 31. Which are non-ferrous metallic minerals which do not contain iron content A) Copper. B) Iron. C) All Of These. D) Manganese. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Copper. 32. Electric generator converts what? A) Food. B) Purses. C) Energy. D) Power. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Power. 33. Which metals are placed in the category of metallic minerals A) Iron ore. B) Gold. C) Copper. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 34. Which of the following is a deposit of hematite that can be mined for profit? A) Energy resource. B) Gangue. C) Ore. D) Anthracite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ore. 35. On the basis of chemical and physical properties, mineral resources can be classified into how many types A) 3. B) 5. C) 4. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 36. What is a region where many windmills are located in order to generate electricity from wind called? A) Steam-driven turbine. B) Hydroelectric dam. C) Wind farm. D) Oil well. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wind farm. 37. Consists of hot water under the surface of the earth that contains dissolved minerals. A) Hydrothermal Solution. B) Incinerate. C) Landfills. D) Leachate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hydrothermal Solution. 38. Gold is an example of minerals. A) Ferrous. B) Non-ferrous. C) Both (a) and (b). D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Non-ferrous. 39. Suggest ways to conserve minerals. A) Reducing waste in the process of mining. B) Recycling of minerals. C) Both (a) and (b). D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recycling of minerals. 40. Which type of coal is found in India A) 1-Bituminous. B) 2-Tertiary. C) Both 1 and 2. D) No one. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both 1 and 2. 41. Fossil fuel issues A) Environmental. B) Periodic table. C) Tune up motor vehicles. D) Carbon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carbon. 42. Which pair of minerals are obtained from creatures buried in the earth and plants A) Coal and Petroleum. B) Petroleum and Natural Gas. C) Natural Gas and Iron Ore. D) Copper and silver. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coal and Petroleum. 43. Ankleshwar oilfield is situated in? A) Gujarat. B) Assam. C) Coastal Andhra. D) Maharashtra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gujarat. 44. Liquid from remains of marine organisms A) Oil. B) Ore. C) Nuclear energy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oil. 45. Which of the following is an example of a fossil fuel? A) Natural gas. B) Wind. C) Uranium-235. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Natural gas. 46. How can you explain surface mining? A) Rocks. B) Water. C) A house. D) A mine that requires no roof support. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A mine that requires no roof support. 47. Bhilai steel plant was established in collaboration with which of the following nations? A) Russia (USSR). B) Germany. C) United Kingdom. D) USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Russia (USSR). 48. In which of thefollowing states are the major oil fields located A) Assam. B) Rajasthan. C) Tamil Nadu. D) Bihar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assam. 49. Waste management that involves burning wastes. A) Hydrothermal Solution. B) Incinerate. C) Landfills. D) Leachate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incinerate. 50. A hole in the ground in which wastes are dumped and covered over regularly with layers of soil, plastic, or both. A) Hydrothermal Solution. B) Incinerate. C) Landfills. D) Leachate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Landfills. 51. Contour Strip Mining A) Removing chunks of overburden terraces or strips are cut into the side of a hill or mountain in order to lessen the likelihood of erosion or sudden mass wasting events. B) Structure built on a river that restricts the flow of water up until that point. Used for forming reservoirs for irrigation, drinking, manufacturing, creation of electrical energy, etc. C) A reserve that is being depleted to the point where it could be more expensive to extract and refine it than it can be sold for. D) Hydrocarbons that have been formed from the organic remains of prehistoric plants and animals and can be used as a source of energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Removing chunks of overburden terraces or strips are cut into the side of a hill or mountain in order to lessen the likelihood of erosion or sudden mass wasting events. 52. Metallic minerals are divided into which categories A) 1-Ferrous. B) 2-Non-ferrous. C) 3-Fuel. D) Both 1 and 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both 1 and 2. 53. What is subsurface mining? A) Soil. B) My new glasses. C) Vertical mining shafts. D) Ground level. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vertical mining shafts. 54. Produced by growing crops such as corn, sugarcane, or switchgrass and converting them into ethanol. A) Biofuel. B) Biomass. C) Coal. D) Anthracite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biofuel. 55. Which of the following is a nonrenewable energy resource? A) Wind. B) Petroleum. C) Geothermal. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Petroleum. 56. Which of the following is a non-renewable source of energy A) Solar. B) Wind power. C) Hydel. D) Thermal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hydel. 57. What common rock structure can trap oil and natural gas under it? A) Folded rock. B) Sandstone rock. C) Porous rock. D) Permeable rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Folded rock. 58. Nonrenewable Resources A) Composed primarily of methane (CH4). Formed from plants and animals that were buried deep within the ocean floor. B) Resources that cannot be replaced. C) An inorganic compound or element that has a regular crystalline structure. D) Mining where explosives or heavy machinery are used to literally remove the top of a mountain in order to obtain valuable mineral resources within that mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resources that cannot be replaced. 59. What type of threat is hazardous waste? A) Public. B) Environmental. C) Substantial. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Substantial. 60. The mineral resources of any country provide the necessary foundation for the development of ..... A) Social development. B) Human development. C) Agricultural development. D) Industrial development. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Industrial development. Next →Related QuizzesIndian Geography QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesMineral And Energy Resources Quiz 2Mineral And Energy Resources In India QuizMinerals QuizNatural Resources Of India Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books