Test: Geography CBSE Sample Question Paper (2021-22) - Humanities/Arts MCQ

In the Census of India migration is enumerated on two bases:

(i) place of birth, if the place of birth is different from the place of enumeration (known as life-time migrant).

(ii) place of residence, if the place of last residence is different from the place of enumeration known as migrant by place of last resident.

Urban centres have factories which process the raw materials obtained from the surrounding rural areas or buy goods in bulk from importers and sell them to rural dwellers. On the other hand, rural settlements offer the market for the products manufactured, produced or purchased in bulk by the urban centres.

A Fazenda is a plantation found throughout Brazil; during the colonial period. They were concentrated primarily in the northeastern region, where (sugar) was produced. During the 19th century they spread into the southeastern region coffee production.

The economist and philosopher Amartya Sen, who is associated with the  'capability approach' provide the philosophical basis of human development. The Sen capability approach is a moral framework. It proposes that social arrangements should be evaluated primarily according to the extent of freedom people have to promote as well as achieve functions they value.

The Deccan plateau is a large triangular region that covers about 43% of India, and spans eight states – Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. The highest frequency of the severe droughts  are observed in the Deccan region.

The Dutch once had monopoly over sugarcane plantation in Indonesia. The Dutch instituted a sugargrowing system in some areas, building 94 sugar-processing factories, as well as roads and railroads to transport materials and products. Generally the Dutch exported high-quality sugar from Indonesia while keeping lowerquality sugar in the country. 

Famous forts in Jaipur are Amer Fort, Nahargarh Fort and Jaigarh Fort . 

The environmental determinism suggests that humans are not a product of their environment, rather they possess the skills necessary to change their environment to satisfy human needs.
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The humans were dictated by nature and its forces. Thus, humans were naturalised because they were afraid of nature and worshipped it. This is known as naturalisation of humans. This naturalisation of humans is termed as environmental determinism.

The rural settlements derive their life support or basic economic needs from land based primary economic activities. Communities living in rural settlement are predominantly involved in primary activities such as farming, lumbering and mining.

The share of agricultural sector in total water utilisation is much higher than other sectors. Agriculture accounts for most of the surface and groundwater utilisation. Agriculture accounts for 89 per cent of the surface water and 92 per cent of the groundwater utilisation. 

Griffith Taylor introduced the concept of Neo- determinism which reflects a middle path between the two ideas of environmental determinism and possibilism. 

The population of Uttar Pradesh continues to grow at a high rate. Because of that high growth rate and a substantial reduction in infant mortality in the 20th century, there has been a significant increase in the proportion of young adults and children. 

Ganga has about 46 per cent of the total replenishable groundwater resources. The level of groundwater utilisation is relatively high in the river basins lying in northeastern region and parts of south India.

Mahbub-ul-Haq was the pioneer in developing the concept of human development. He not only articulated the human development philosophy for making economic development plans but he also provided the world with a statistical measure to quantify the indicators of economic growth with human development. 

Rainwater harvesting is the collection and storage of rain, rather than allowing it to run off. 

Urban settlement often has a large population size and high population density. 

Nomadic herding or pastoral nomadism is a primitive subsistence activity, in which the herders rely on animals for food, clothing, shelter, tools and transport. They move from one place to another along with their livestock, depending on the amount and quality of pastures and water. 

A clustered rural settlement is a rural settlement where a number of families live in close proximity to each other. 

Development is basically a concept that has positive connotations. It involves the application of certain economic and technical measures to utilize available resources to instigate economic growth and improve people's quality of life. 

Spatial organization, as one of the basic themes of geography, focuses on how to recognize and organize geographic space in which human activities occur, giving rise to spatial structures. 

The females predominate the streams of short distance rural to rural migration in both types of migration. The most common reason for migration in India is marriage.

Viticulture is the scientific study of grapes, most often with a focus on growth and production.

Semi-clustered settlements result from the tendency of clustering in a limited region associated with a dispersed settlement. More often such a pattern may also result from segregation or fragmentation of a large compact village.

Work participation rate is the number of people engaged in economic activities. The work participation rate tends to be higher in the areas of lower levels of economic development since number of manual workers are needed to perform the subsistence or near subsistence economic activities in the absence of other opportunities.

Viticulture or grape cultivation is a speciality of the Mediterranean region. It represents a very intensive form of farming requiring not only good conditions of moisture, temperature and soil but also much personal care, if the grapes are to be of high quality.