Soil erosion can be prevented by:

Related Mcqs:

1. If there is a little slope in the field, the soil erosion can be prevented by:

   A. Contour terracing
   B. Contour strip cropping
   C. Confour farming
   D. All of these

2. Soil erosion can be prevented by:

   A. Allowing herbivorous animals to graze excessively
   B. Growing plants to form a soil cover
   C. Making the land slopy
   D. Increasing fertility

3. Soil erosion is prevented by:

   A. Afforestation
   B. Deforestation
   C. Denudation
   D. Overgrazing

4. Removal of top soil by soil erosion result in the loss of soil:

   A. Nitrites
   B. Nitrates
   C. Nitrogen
   D. Nitric and nitrous acids

5. The soil erosion on slopes proceeds in the following manner:

   A. Gully – Rill – ravine
   B. Rill – Ravine – Gully
   C. Rill – Gully – Ravine
   D. Ravine – Rill – Gully

6. Odum has described soil erosion as:

   A. Soil pollution
   B. Creeping death of soil
   C. Loss of living stratum
   D. Loss of feeding zone

7. Soil erosion in plains consequent to rain fall is initiated by:

   A. Rill erosion
   B. Sheet erosion
   C. Gully erosion
   D. All of these

8. Soil erosion can be reduced by:

   A. Reducing over grazing
   B. Planting proper plants
   C. Making dams
   D. All of those

9. Main indicator of soil erosion is:

   A. Deforestation
   B. Afforestation
   C. Ozone layer
   D. Goats and grazing animals

10. One of the following crops is the most effective in controlling soil erosion:

    A. Cotton
    B. Pigeon pea
    C. Green gram
    D. Maize