NCERT MCQ ON PASTORALISTS IN THE MODERN WORLD
Question 1 : Name the Pastoral Nomads of Jammu and Kashmir
- a) Gujjar Bakarwals
- b) Bhotiyas
- c) Sherpas
- d) Gaddis
Answer: Gujjar Bakarwals
Question 2: Pastoralists sustain by
- a) All the options
- b) Trade
- c) Cultivation
- d) Herding
Answer: All the options
Question 3: Nomadic Pastoralists are People Who
- a) Move from one place to another with their herds to earn a living
- b) Move from one area to another
- c) Live in one place
- d) Gonds, Dhurwas and Bhatros are some nomadic pastoralists of India
Answer: Move from one place to another with their herds to earn a living
Question 4 : Maasai means
- a) My land
- b) My people
- c) My home
- d) Maa
Answer: Myland
Question 5: The Serengeti National Park is located in
- a) South Africa
- b) Tanzania
- c) Kenya
- d) Namibia
Answer: South Africa
Question 6: Protected forests were
- a) Customary rights were granted to pastoralists subject to severe restrictions on their movements
- b) Pastoralists were granted grazing rights in these forests without preconditions
- c) Access to these forests was prohibited
- d) Forests which produced commercially viable timber
Answer: Customary rights were granted to pastoralists subject to severe restrictions on their movements
Question 7: In which of the following states are Banjara’s to be found
- a) Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh
- b) U.P., Punjab, Andhra Pradesh
- c) Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka
- d) U.P., Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir
Answer: Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh
Question 8: Pastoralists sustain by
- a) All the options
- b) Trade
- c) Cultivation
- d) Herding
Answer: All the options
Question 9: The alternation of monsoon and dry season defined the rhythm of
- a) Gollas
- b) Berbers
- c) Gujjar Bakarwals
- d) Gaddis
Answer: Gollas
Question 10: Which of the following was not a reason for Konkani peasants welcoming the herders
- a) Dhangar flocks fed on the stubble of the rabi crop
- b) They helped in kharif harvest
- c) Shepherds received supplies of rice
- d) They returned to the plateau with the onset of monsoons
Answer: Dhangar flocks fed on the stubble of the rabi crop
Question 11: Dhangars are pastoralists of
- a) Maharashtra
- b) U.P. hills
- c) Garhwal
- d) Jammu and Kashmir
Answer: Maharashtra
Question 12: Bugyals are
- a) Semi-arid region in the Central Plateau of Maharashtra
- b) Vast meadows in high mountains
- c) Dry forested area below the foothills of Garhwal and Kumaon
- d) Swampy wet coastal tracts
Answer: Semi-arid region in the Central Plateau of Maharashtra
Question 13: The cyclical movement of mountain pastoralists is defined by
- a) Cold and snow
- b) Dry season
- c) Onset of monsoons
- d) Prospects of trade
Answer: Cold and snow
Question 14: Bhabar
- a) Dry forested area
- b) Semi-arid region
- c) Thick forests
- d) Vast meadows
Answer: Dry forested area
Question 15: Name the significant feature of nomadic pastoralists
- a) Cycle of seasonal movement
- b) Shifting cultivation
- c) Live on the edges of forests
- d) Continuously on the move
Answer: Cycle of seasonal movement
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