Please refer to Chapter 8 Manufacturing Industries MCQ Class 12 Geography with answers below. These multiple-choice questions have been prepared based on the latest NCERT book for Class 12 Geography. Students should refer to MCQ Questions for Class 12 Geography with Answers to score more marks in Grade 12 Geography exams. Students should read the chapter Manufacturing Industries and then attempt the following objective questions.

MCQ Questions Class 12 Geography Chapter 8 Manufacturing Industries

The Manufacturing Industries Quaternary Activities MCQ Class 12 Geography provided below covers all important topics given in this chapter. These MCQs will help you to properly prepare for exams.

Question. Which one of the industry referred as Basic Industry?
a. Aluminum Industry
b. Iron and Steel Industry
c. Agro Industry
d. Chemical Industry

Question. In which state Jamshedpur Iron and Steel industry situated?
a. West Bengal
b. Jharkhand
c. Bihar
d. Orissa

Question. Which one of is not an example of Public Sector
a. Airtel
b. Hindustan Aeronautical limited
c. Bhilai Iron Steel Plant
d. Indian Oil Corporation

Question. Which is an example of Footloose Industry?
a. Iron and Steel Industry
b. Cotton textile Industry
c. Cement Industry
d. Electronics Industry

Question. Which one of the following is the second-largest producer of sugar?
a. Uttar Pradesh
b. Maharashtra
c. Andhra Pradesh
d. Tamil Nadu

Question. A city also refer as Silicon City
a. Mumbai
b. Jaipur
c. Bengaluru
d. Lucknow

Question. Which one is not a feature of New Industrial Policy, 1991?
a. Abolition of industrial licensing
b. Foreign investment policy
d. Free entry to foreign technology
d. Maximum interference of Govt.

Question. Which is an example of Pure Raw Material?
a. Iron ore
b. Bauxite
c. Cotton
d. Crude oil

Question. How many sugar factories were established in India in the year 2010-11?
a. 560
b. 600
c. 662
d. 700

Question. Which one of the following industries uses limestone as a raw material?
a. Aluminium
b. Cement
c. Sugar
d. Jute

Question. First cotton textile Industry was founded in….
a. Ahmedabad
b. Fort Glaster
c. Mumbai
d. Kanpur

Question. Jute mills are mostly located in:
a. Mahanadi Basin
b. Damodar valley
c. Hoogli Basin
d. Kosi Basin

Q17. In which of the following cities of Gujarat has the largest petroleum refinery been setup?
a. Jamnagar
b. Ahmedabad
c. Surat
d. Rajkot

Question. In which of the following states is Rourkela Steel Plant located?
a. Jharkhand
b. West Bengal
c. Odisha
d. Bihar

Question. Which one of the following industries manufactures telephones, computers, etc?
a. Steel
b. Aluminium
c. Electronic
d. Information Technology

Question. When was the New Industrial Policy announced?
(o) 1900
b. 1990
c. 1991
d. 2000

Question. Which is not a factor of industrial location?
a. Market
b. Capital
c. Population Density
d. Power.

Question. Which city is known as Manchester of North India?
a. Kanpur
b. Patna
c. Lucknow
d. Meerut

Question. The concentration of the jute industry in West Bengal is in this region.
a. Kolkata and Durgapur
b. Kolkata and Midnapur
c. Haora and Bhatapara
d. None of these

Question. In which year was the first modern cotton mill set up?
a. 1800
b. 1850
c. 1854
d. 1900

Question. Which of the following factors are not necessary to set up an iron and steel plant?
a. Proximity to iron-ore mines
b. Availability of coking coal
c. Good resources of limestone and manganese
d. Nearness to a water body to discharge wastes

Question. Sixty per cent of sugar mills are concentrated in which of the following states?
a. Punjab and Haryana
b. Maharashtra and Gujarat
c. Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
d. West Bengal and Orissa

Question. Manufacturing is an activity of which type:
a. Primary
b. Secondary
c. Tertiary
d. Quarternary

Question. Which of the following industry uses bauxite as a raw material?
a. Aluminium
b. Cement
c. Jute
d. Steel

Question. Where was the first port-based plant, which started operating in 1992, set up?
a. Andhra Pradesh
b. Madhya Pradesh
c. Maharashtra
d. Uttar Pradesh

Question. Air pollution is caused by
a. Organic and inorganic industrial effluents discharged into rivers.
b. Presence of high proportion of sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and air-borne particulate materials.
c. Unwanted sounds from industries, generators, saws and pneumatic and electric drills.
d. Overdrawing of groundwater.

Question. Which one of the following agencies, market steel for the public sector plants?
a. HAIL
b. SAIL
c. TATA Steel
d. MNCC

Question. The nucleus of the Hugh Industrial Region is:
a. Kolkata – Howrah
b. Kolkata – Medinipur
c. Kolkata – Rishra
d. Kolkata – Konnagar

Question. Which is the largest producer of Sugar in India?
a. Uttar Pradesh
b. Maharashtra
c. Andhra Pradesh
d. Tamil Nadu

Question. The earliest Iron and Steel Company to be established in India was:
a. IISCO
b. TISCO
c. Visvesvaraiya Iron and Steel Works
d. Mysore Iron and Steel Works

Question. When was the Bokaro Steel Plant set up?
a. 1900
b. 1950
c. 1960
d. 1964

Question. Where was the first port-based plant, which started operating in 1992, set up?
a. Andhra Pradesh
b. Madhya Pradesh
c. Maharashtra
d. Uttar Pradesh

Question. Most of the integrated steel plants in India are located in
a. Malwa Plateau
b. Bundelkhand Plateau
c. Meghalaya Plateau
d. Chotanagpur Plateau

Question. Which are the two prime factors for the location of aluminium industry?
a. Market and labour
b. Transport network and water supply
c. Cheap and regular supply of electricity and bauxite
d. None of the above

Question. On the basis of ownership industries are categorized as
a. public sector
b. private sector
c. joint sector
d. all of the above 

Question. Which of the following statement is it true regarding the Steel plants set up during second year plant?
a. Rourkela in Odisha
b. Bhilai in Chhattisgarh
c. Durgapur in West Bengal
d. all of the above

Question. Between which cities the nucleus of Gujarat industrial region lies?
a. Ahmedabad and Vadodara
b. Ahmedabad and Kandla
c. Visakhapatnam and Kurnool
d. Birlanagar and Medinipur.

Question. Between which cities the nucleus of Hugli industrial region lies?
a. Ahmedabad and Vadodara
b. Ahmedabad and Kandla
c. Visakhapatnam and Kurnool
d. Birlanagar and Medinipur.

Question. Where the first cotton mill was established ?
a. Delhi
b. Kolkata
c. Mumbai
d. Chennai

Question. Which of the following is the acting head of public sector Steel plants?
a. SAIL
b. TISCO
c. IISCO
d. TCS 

Question. The per capita annual consumption of steel in India is:
a. 30 kg
b. 31 kg
c. 32 kg
d. 33 kg

Question. The Steel plant located in the coastal area is at :
a. Masulipatnam
b. Vishakhapatnam
c. Nagapatnam
d. Thiruvanthapuram

Question. The first successful textile mill was established in:
a. Delhi
b. Vishakhapatnam
c. Chennai
d. Mumbai (Bombay)

Question. Which country is the major importer of Indian yarn?
a. Indonesia
b. Bhutan
c. Japan
d. Spain

Question. The economic strength of a country is measured by the development of which of the following?
a. Agriculture
b. Infrastructural facilities
c. Manufacturing industries
d. Export trade

Question. Which of the following developments usually follows industrial activity?
a. Agriculture
b. Urbanisation
c. Electrification
d. Mining

Question. In which one of the following states is 60 per cent of India’s steel units located?
a. Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
b. Uttarakhand and Bihar
b. Punjab and Haryana
d. Jharkhand and Odisha.

Question. Which of the following industries uses bauxite as a raw material?
a. Aluminium
b. Cement
c. Jute
d. Steel.

Question. The leading centre of the woollen textile industry in Punjab
a. Kanpur
b. Ludhiana
c. Murshidabad
d. Panipat

Question. Oil India Limited (OIL) belongs to which of the following types of industries?
a. Public sector
b. Private sector
c. Joint sector
d. Cooperative sector

Question. Which one of the following is not a factor of industrial location?
a. Power
b. Population Density
c. Capital
d. Market