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Give reason. Per capita land availability is more in Brazil as compared to India. - Geography

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Give reason.

Per capita land availability is more in Brazil as compared to India.

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उत्तर

  1. Per capita land availability is the total land available per person in the country. It can be calculated as total land area/total population.
  2. The per capita land availability in Brazil is higher than that of India. It is because of two reasons.
  3. The total land area of Brazil is larger than the total land area of India. Brazil is the fifth-largest county in the world while India is the seventh-largest country.
  4. But the population in India is much higher than that of Brazil. India is the second-most populous country in the world while Brazil is in the fifth most populous country.
  5. The higher land area and the lesser population is the reason why the per capita land availability is more in Brazil.
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पाठ 8: Economy and Occupations - Give geographical reasons

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Select the correct option and rewrite the sentence:

------------ is seen as one of the world’s major markets and contributor to economic growth of the world.


A) Draw a suitable Line graph with help of following statistical information and answer the following questions.

                                    Number of international tourists (in lakhs)

International
tourists (in lakhs)
1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
Brazil 20 50 45 40 50
India 20 21 30 50 140

1) In which year is the number of tourists maximum in India ?
2) In year 2000, how many tourists visited Brazil?
3) In which year India and Brazil have the same number of international tourists?


State whether the sentence is right or wrong and correct the wrong ones and rewrite the sentence

Like the Indian economy, the Brazilian economy is also of mixed type.


India’s per capita income is less than Brazil due to ____________.


Give reason.

There is mixed economy in Brazil and India.


Read the following graph and answer the questions:

  1. Which country’s national income was highest in 2016 and was it how much?
  2. Comparing India and Brazil, which country had a higher national income in 1980?
  3. Comparing India and Brazil, which country had a higher income in 2016?
  4. Tell the difference between the GNP of Brazil and India in 2016.
  5. Calculate the difference between the national incomes of developed and developing countries in 2016.


Classify the following activities in by ticking (✓) in the respective column.

Activities Primary Secondary Tertiary
Television Broadcasting      
Bee-keeping      
coir and Rope making      
Jaggery- making      
Producing blades of the
plough.
     
Construction      
Extracting Iron Ore      
Automobile Production      
Rice Production      
Teaching      
Driving buses      
Providing lodging and
boarding facilities
     

Give geographical reasons for the following:

There are limitations on mining in the interior parts of Brazil.


A table regarding the ownership of various sectors in both the countries is given. Like Brazil, fill the details regarding India and complete the table.

 

Sr.No.  India  Sector  Brazil
1.  -- Banking Private and public both
2.  -- Railways Private and public both
3.  -- Airways Private and public both
4.  -- Electricity production Largely public
5.  -- Iron and Steel Industry Largely public
6.  -- Health Private and public both
7.  -- Education Largely public, little private
8.  -- Telecommuni-cations  Private and public both
  1. On the basis of the information about the ownership of various sectors in both the countries given in the table, can you infer about the type of these economies?

In figure given below, the pie-charts show the contribution of each sector in the respective country’s GDP and the percentage of population engaged in various activities. Read both the pie-charts carefully and answer the following questions.

 

Brazil India 
Contribution of sectors in GDP (2016)
Percentage of population engaged in various sectors (2016)
Primary    Secondary Tertiary 
  1. Which country has a higher percentage of population engaged in primary activities?
  2. In which country is the contribution of tertiary sector greater in the GDP?
  3. In which country is the share of secondary activities more in the GDP?
  4. Can we say that Brazil is an agrarian economy like India? Give reasons.

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