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© Jayesh lecture [Test Series]
Subject: Geography
Class: 10th
Short Answer Question:
Q1: What do you understand by the term water resources.
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Q2: What is meant by the term irrigation.
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Q3: What is meant by the term ‘water scarcity’? What has caused
this scarcity in India?
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Q4: What is meant by traditional or conventional methods of
irrigation?
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Q5: How are the fields irrigated using the Persian wheel method?
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Q6: Why is water harvesting needed?
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Q7: What is well?
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Q8: State why tubewell irrigation is important in Punjab.
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Q9: Give two points of difference between ‘surface water’ and
‘ground water’.
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Surface water Ground water
Q10: Mention two disadvantages if tank irrigation.
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Q11: What are inundation canals?
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Q12: What is drip irrigation? How is it useful?
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Q13: What is Rainwater Harvesting?
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Q14: What is watershed management?
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Q15: What are tubewells?
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Q16: Explain the advantages of following:
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