HSC Arts (English Medium)
Academic Year: 2023-2024
Date & Time: 15th March 2024, 3:00 pm
Duration: 3h
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Note:
- All questions are compulsory.
- Draw relevant diagrams/graphs wherever necessary.
- Use of colour pencil is allowed.
- Use of map stencil is allowed.
- Figures to the right indicate full marks.
- The supplement of map to your main answer sheet.
Complete the chain and rewrite it:
| ‘A’ | ‘B’ | ‘C’ | |
| (1) | Consumer goods | (i) Atlantic Ocean | (a) Pharmaceutical product |
| (2) | Panama Canal | (ii) Fertile region | (b) Ecological balance |
| (3) | Plain | (iii) Ready for direct consumption | (c) Development of Agriculture |
| (4) | Food chain | (iv) Short term | (d) Pacific Ocean |
| (5) | Migration | (v) Ecosystem | (e) Arabian Sea |
| (vi) Indian Ocean | (f) Long term |
Chapter: [0.06] Tertiary Economic Activities
Land use patterns in rural areas are different from urban areas.
True
False
Chapter: [0.03] Human Settlements and Land Use
The farm size is small in extensive commercial agriculture.
True
False
Chapter: [0.04] Primary Economic Activities
The iron and steel industry depends on minerals.
True
False
Chapter: [0.05] Secondary Economic Activities
Bilateral trade and multilateral trade are the main types of international trade.
True
False
Chapter: [0.06] Tertiary Economic Activities
Nowadays, mapping is mostly done using GIS software.
True
False
Chapter: [0.08] Geography : Nature and Scope
Reasons of migration:
Natural disasters
Internal migration
External migration
Voluntary migration
Chapter: [0.02] Population : Part - 2
Commercial lumbering is mainly carried in ______.
Temperate coniferous forests
Temperate deciduous forests
Tropical deciduous forests
Equatorial evergreen forests
Chapter: [0.04] Primary Economic Activities
Identify the agro-based industries:
Iron and steel industry
Sugar industry
Chemical industry
Cement industry
Chapter: [0.05] Secondary Economic Activities
Functional region:
Europe
Television signal areas of T.V. towers
West Bengal
River basin of Amazon
Chapter: [0.07] Region and Regional Development
Which is an encyclopaedia of geographer's knowledge consisting of 17 volumes?
Geographica
Geography
Ges-periodus
Cosmos
Chapter: [0.08] Geography : Nature and Scope
Primary Economic activity not related directly to latitudinal locations:
Lumbering
Fishing
Mining
Agriculture
Chapter: [0.04] Primary Economic Activities
Identify incorrect factor:
Mineral based industries:
Petrochemicals
Iron and steel industry
Woollen textile industry
Aluminium industry
Chapter: [0.05] Secondary Economic Activities
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Identify incorrect factor:
Characteristics of region:
Location
Geographical extent
Political party
Boundaries
Chapter: [0.07] Region and Regional Development
Identify incorrect factor:
Skills of geographers:
Data collection
Conservation of forest
Write reports and present the findings
Map drawing
Chapter: [0.08] Geography : Nature and Scope
Identify incorrect factor:
Branches of Physical Geography:
Geology
Pedology
Climatology
Population Geography
Chapter: [0.08] Geography : Nature and Scope
Give a geographical reason:
Population distribution is uneven.
Chapter: [0.01] Population : Part - 1
Give geographical reasons:
Literacy rate of a country is an indicator of its socio-economic development.
Chapter: [0.02] Population : Part - 2
Give geographical reason:
Lumbering is developed on a large scale in Canada.
Chapter: [0.04] Primary Economic Activities
Give geographical reason
What are the major factors which have hindered the growth of industries in South America?
Chapter: [0.05] Secondary Economic Activities
Give geographical reasons:
Tertiary activities include both services and exchange.
Chapter: [0.06] Tertiary Economic Activities
Give geographical reasons:
Regional development is dependent on physical setting.
Chapter: [0.07] Region and Regional Development
Differentiate between:
Donor region and Recipient region.
Chapter: [0.02] Population : Part - 2
Differentiate between :
Nucleated and Dispersed Settlement
Chapter: [0.03] Human Settlements and Land Use
Differentiate between:
Mining and Fishing.
Chapter: [0.04] Primary Economic Activities
Differentiate between:
Waterways and Airways.
Chapter: [0.06] Tertiary Economic Activities
Differentiate between:
Physical region and political region.
Chapter: [0.07] Region and Regional Development
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Marks and name the following on the outline map of the world with a suitable index:
- Highly populated area in Australia.
- A state having highest sex ratio in India.
- Dogger Bank Fishing area.
- An industrial region in South Africa - Kimberley.
- Industrial region near Great Lakes.
- A canal bringing radical change in sea transport - Suez Canal.
- An International Airport in India - Mumbai.
- Panama Strait.
Chapter: [0.04] Primary Economic Activities
Read the following graph and answer the questions given below:
Questions:
- Which region has a very less adult female literacy rate?
- Why the percentage of adult male literacy rate is more in the given regions?
- Why the percentage of female-male literacy rate in 2016 is less in sub-Saharan Africa?
- Write your own opinion about the adult female literacy rate with reference to the graph.
- With reference to graph which country would be advanced in social factors?
Chapter: [0.02] Population : Part - 2
Write short note on the following.
Functional classification of urban settlement.
Chapter: [0.03] Human Settlements and Land Use
Short note:
Footloose industries.
Chapter: [0.05] Secondary Economic Activities
Short note:
Role of transportation in trade.
Chapter: [0.06] Tertiary Economic Activities
Write short note:
Strategies to reduce regional imbalance
Chapter: [0.07] Region and Regional Development
Write a short note on the latest trends in geography.
Chapter: [0.08] Geography : Nature and Scope
Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:
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Economic motivation is universally and easily available nowadays. It can be given in all sectors. In production sectors more than one such stimulators are used to increase production. Workers and capitalists should work more enthusiastically to increase the production. For that incentive is very useful for such purpose. Desire of power, fame, honest intention of serving, patriotism, such encouragements also motivate human beings to work. These all sources of motivation are mixed more or less in ethical standards of work. Economic motivation is very important motivation. There can be various types of economic motivations. Bonus is given to the workers for the task which is done before deadlines. Sample tasks are considered in the context of the task. Extra allowances or remuneration is given if the production is more than expected and quality is also maintained. This is done so that dissatisfaction does not arise among workers. Such efforts are constantly needed to increase production. The workers can work enthusiastically if the special allowances or incentives are offered. Promotion in job is offered as an encouragement to do good work is also a kind of economic incentive which is commonly used. |
- What is meant by economic motivation? (1)
- What is the purpose of increasing the production for capitalists? (1)
- Why special remuneration (bonus) is given? (1)
- Compare the skilled and unskilled workers in the secondary economic activity. (1)
Chapter: [0.05] Secondary Economic Activities
Draw a neat, labelled diagram
Pyramids of underdeveloping countries.
Chapter: [0.02] Population : Part - 2
Draw a neat, labelled diagram.
Linear pattern
Chapter: [0.03] Human Settlements and Land Use
Draw a diagram and label it:
Skills of Geographers.
Chapter: [0.08] Geography : Nature and Scope
Explain the human factors affecting distribution of population.
Chapter: [0.01] Population : Part - 1
Write a note on Intensive Subsistence agriculture.
Chapter: [0.04] Primary Economic Activities
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