India Resources & Their Utilization Test - 14

The Indian Ocean provides major sea routes connecting the Middle East, Africa, and East Asia with Europe and the Americas. It carries a particularly heavy traffic of petroleum and petroleum products from the oil fields of the Persian Gulf and Indonesia. Large reserves of hydrocarbons are being tapped in the offshore areas of Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, and Western Australia. An estimated 40% of the world's offshore oil production comes from the Indian Ocean.

The mines of Manganese are located in Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar. In Odisha, the mining impact zones in Sundargarh, Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj districts is about 100 sq km (100,000 ha). As many as 192 mining leases of iron and manganese ores are located in these districts and they include forest areas.

Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible, sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat. It is considered the lowest rank of coal due to its relatively low heat content. It has a carbon content around 60–70 percent. It is mined all around the world, is used almost exclusively as a fuel for steam-electric power generation, and is the coal which is most harmful to health.

Water mills were used for Grinding Grains before the advent of conventional sources of energy. Mills were commonly used for grinding grain into flour (attested by Pliny the Elder), but industrial uses as fulling and sawing marble were also applied. The Romans used both fixed and floating water wheels and introduced water power to other provinces of the Roman Empire.

About 80% of the silk produced in the country is mulberry silk, majority of which is produced in the three southern States of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, followed by West Bengal and Jammu & Kashmir. Mulberry sericulture is being practised since time immemorial in the North Eastern Region (NER).

In 2014, China produced 2,500 million metric tons of cement. India's cement industry produced 280 million metric tons in 2014

V.O.Chidambaranar Port, formerly Tuticorin Port,[5] is one of the 12 major ports in India. It was declared to be a major port on 11 July 1974. It is second-largest port in Tamil Nadu and fourth-largest container terminal in India. After Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project V.O.C Port will be India's premier port and one of the major ports of Asia equal to Port of Singapore.

India has a huge network of national highways. The national highways have a total length of 70,548 kms. There are 228 highways in India at present.NH 44 covers the North-South Corridor of NHDP and it is officially listed as running over 3,745 km (2,327 mi) from Srinagar to Kanyakumari. It is the longest national highway in India.