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(i) Natural endowments in the form of land, water, vegetation and minerals.
(ii) A type of non-renewable resource.
(iii) Soil with high water retaining capacity.
(iv) Intensively leached soils of the monsoon climate.
(v) Plantation of trees on a large scale to check soil erosion.
(vi) The Great Plains of India are made up of these soils.

Answer:

(i) Resources

(ii) Minerals

(iii) Black

(iv) Laterite

(v) Afforestation

(vi) Alluvia

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