Manufacturing Industries MCQ Quiz

30 questions

1. What is manufacturing?

   1. Sugar
   2. Iron and steel
   3. Industry with relatively small investment and output
   4. Transforming raw materials into products

2. Why is manufacturing important?

   1. Iron and steel
   2. It adds value and creates jobs
   3. Smelting uses large amounts of electricity
   4. To reduce distribution costs

3. Which is a basic industry?

   1. Iron and steel
   2. To reduce distribution costs
   3. Kolkata
   4. Industry using agricultural raw materials

4. What is the main raw material of cotton textiles?

   1. Transforming raw materials into products
   2. Cement
   3. Kolkata
   4. Cotton

5. Why did cotton mills grow in Mumbai?

   1. Port, labour, market and climate advantages
   2. Iron and steel
   3. By producing goods domestically
   4. It supplies inputs to many sectors

6. Which city is a jute centre?

   1. It supplies inputs to many sectors
   2. Production balanced with environmental protection
   3. Kolkata
   4. Transforming raw materials into products

7. Why is jute concentrated near Hooghly?

   1. Chemical industry
   2. Cotton
   3. Smelting uses large amounts of electricity
   4. Raw material, water, transport and port access

8. Which industry uses limestone?

   1. By producing goods domestically
   2. Cement
   3. Cotton
   4. Chemical industry

9. Which industry is called a backbone of modern industry?

   1. Fertiliser
   2. Industry with relatively small investment and output
   3. Smelting uses large amounts of electricity
   4. Iron and steel

10. What is an agro-based industry?

    1. Discharge of heated water into water bodies
    2. Cement
    3. Industry using agricultural raw materials
    4. Raw material, water, transport and port access

11. Which is agro-based?

    1. Raw material, water, transport and port access
    2. Industry with relatively small investment and output
    3. Concentration of related industries
    4. Sugar

12. Which industry supplies farm chemicals?

    1. Raw materials, power, labour, capital, transport and markets
    2. Fertiliser
    3. Iron and steel
    4. Treat industrial effluents

13. What is industrial pollution?

    1. Transforming raw materials into products
    2. Discharge of heated water into water bodies
    3. Pollution caused by industrial activity
    4. It adds value and creates jobs

14. Which pollutant can come from fossil-fuel burning?

    1. Cleaner fuels and control equipment
    2. Iron and steel
    3. Sulphur dioxide
    4. Iron and steel

15. How can water pollution be reduced?

    1. Treat industrial effluents
    2. They facilitate imports and exports
    3. Pollution caused by industrial activity
    4. Iron and steel

16. What is thermal pollution?

    1. Raw material, water, transport and port access
    2. Discharge of heated water into water bodies
    3. Production balanced with environmental protection
    4. Chemical industry

17. Why is aluminium electricity-intensive?

    1. Port, labour, market and climate advantages
    2. Iron and steel
    3. Smelting uses large amounts of electricity
    4. Iron and steel

18. Which industry supports automobile production?

    1. Kolkata
    2. Raw material, water, transport and port access
    3. Treat industrial effluents
    4. Iron and steel

19. What is an industrial cluster?

    1. Concentration of related industries
    2. Cleaner fuels and control equipment
    3. Sulphur dioxide
    4. Iron and steel

20. Why locate near markets?

    1. To reduce distribution costs
    2. It adds value and creates jobs
    3. Cleaner fuels and control equipment
    4. Sulphur dioxide

21. Why are ports important?

    1. Iron and steel
    2. Cotton
    3. They facilitate imports and exports
    4. Chemical industry

22. What is a small-scale industry?

    1. Iron and steel
    2. Concentration of related industries
    3. Industry with relatively small investment and output
    4. Industry using agricultural raw materials

23. Which industry makes synthetic fibres?

    1. Chemical industry
    2. Cleaner fuels and control equipment
    3. They facilitate imports and exports
    4. Industry with relatively small investment and output

24. Why is chemical industry important?

    1. They facilitate imports and exports
    2. Sugar
    3. It supplies inputs to many sectors
    4. It adds value and creates jobs

25. What influences industrial location?

    1. Raw materials, power, labour, capital, transport and markets
    2. Port, labour, market and climate advantages
    3. They facilitate imports and exports
    4. Industry with relatively small investment and output

26. Which industry consumes large amounts of coal and power?

    1. Smelting uses large amounts of electricity
    2. Iron and steel
    3. Cleaner fuels and control equipment
    4. Production balanced with environmental protection

27. How can factories reduce air pollution?

    1. Cleaner fuels and control equipment
    2. Cotton
    3. To reduce distribution costs
    4. Chemical industry

28. How can manufacturing reduce import dependence?

    1. By producing goods domestically
    2. Chemical industry
    3. Kolkata
    4. Cane is bulky and perishable

29. What is sustainable industrial development?

    1. Iron and steel
    2. Discharge of heated water into water bodies
    3. Production balanced with environmental protection
    4. Sulphur dioxide

30. Why are sugar mills near cane fields?

    1. Industry using agricultural raw materials
    2. Pollution caused by industrial activity
    3. Cane is bulky and perishable
    4. Concentration of related industries

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