CBSE Questions for Class 10 Geography Manufacturing Industries Quiz 3 - MCQExams.com

• A fertilizer is a natural or synthetic material that is supplied to plant or soil to provide one or more essential nutrients to plant.
  
• Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plant growth, development and reproduction. Despite nitrogen being the abundant element on earth, its deficiency is seen in plants. To avoid this nutrient deficiency nitrogen fertilizers are added to the soil.
  
• It is fertilizer that is consumed most in India.
  

Bhadravati is located in Shimoga district of Karnataka. It is known for the steel plant located there. It is owned by public sector organised company called SAIL. Name of the company located in Bhadravati is the Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Plant factory which was started by Sir M. Visvesvarayya.

• The first cotton mill was established in the year 1854 in Bombay. Cotton industry flourished in Mumbai for several years. But now it’s declined and cotton industry is being concentrated around other places like Gujarat-Vadodara industrial regions.
  
• The main reason for the decline of cotton industry in Mumbai is extreme congestion in Bombay and lack of space.
  
• Moreover, Mumbai has a disadvantage of paying double freight charges, one is by bringing raw material from peninsular hinterland to Mumbai and the other is dispatching the finished products to inland consuming points in India.
  

A beedi is a thin, Indian cigarette filled with tobacco flake and wrapped in a tendu or possibly even Piliostigma racemosum leaf tied with a string at one end. The name is derived from the Marwari word beeda—a mixture of betel nuts, herbs, and spices wrapped in a leaf. Jabalpur is the highest beedi manufacturing city in India.

Monazite is a reddish-brown phosphate mineral containing rare earth metals. It occurs usually in small isolated crystals. 

Main imports of Iran are machinery, cereals, iron and steel, and chemicals. Main import partners are the United Arab Emirates, China, South Korea, Turkey and Germany. Whereas the USA, UK, CANADA are the importer of jute product to India.

Thus the correct answer is Iran is not the country importing Indian jute products. So the correct option is D.

• Wet climate is required for cotton textile industry. This is because under dry conditions cotton threads will break during spinning. This halts machine and resumes after broken threads are joined which is time consuming and not suitable for mass production.
  
• Nowadays, artificial humidifiers are being used and hence cotton industry is established in any place required irrespective of climate.
  

Sugar mills have to be located near the sugarcane fields because sugarcane contains sucrose and once you cut the sugarcane, the sucrose content starts to decline. Hence raw material must be quickly transported.

Cooperative sector industries are owned and operated by the producers or suppliers of raw materials, workers or both.  They pool in the resources and share the profits or losses proportionately such as the sugar industry in Maharashtra, the coir industry in Kerala.

• Hazira in Gujarat is famous for chemical and fertilizer manufacturing. This fertilizer company has been set up by KRIBHCO to manufacture urea, ammonia and bio-fertilizers. This is established on the banks of river Tapti.

This industry requires bulky and heavy raw materials like limestone, silica, alumina and gypsum. There are 128 large plants and 332 mini cement plants in the country. India produces a variety of cement.