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Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Human development bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A cluster of dwellings where people live and command a territory as economic base is a:Read the answer and worked solution →Small, sparsely spaced settlements specialising in agriculture are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Urban settlements specialise in:Read the answer and worked solution →A compact, closely built village with farms outside it, common in the northern plains, is:Read the answer and worked solution →In Rajasthan, compact settlements are necessitated by scarcity of:Read the answer and worked solution →In Bundelkhand and Nagaland, people live in compact villages mainly for:Read the answer and worked solution →Semi-clustered settlements, where dominant groups hold the centre and others the flanks, are widespread in the:Read the answer and worked solution →Isolated huts on remote hills in Meghalaya, Uttarakhand and Kerala form which settlement type?Read the answer and worked solution →Varanasi, Prayag, Pataliputra and Madurai are examples of:Read the answer and worked solution →Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow and Agra grew as fort towns in the:Read the answer and worked solution →Europeans first developed trading ports such as Surat, Daman, Goa and:Read the answer and worked solution →The British consolidated their hold around three principal nodes: Mumbai, Chennai and:Read the answer and worked solution →Which town is cited as a modern industrial town that evolved after 1850?Read the answer and worked solution →Chandigarh, Bhubaneswar and Gandhinagar were developed after independence as:Read the answer and worked solution →Ghaziabad, Rohtak and Gurugram around Delhi are examples of:Read the answer and worked solution →The level of urbanisation in India in 2011 was:Read the answer and worked solution →The Census classifies urban centres into how many classes?Read the answer and worked solution →An urban centre with more than one lakh people is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →Cities with more than five million people are:Read the answer and worked solution →More than 60 percent of India's urban population lives in:Read the answer and worked solution →How many of India's cities are metropolitan cities or urban agglomerations?Read the answer and worked solution →The largest urban agglomeration, with 18.4 million people, is:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the mega citiesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the village typesRead the answer and worked solution →Find the real termRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the settlement wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Rural or urbanRead the answer and worked solution →Which age of townRead the answer and worked solution →

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Questions
  1. Answer
    1990
    Question
    Year of the first Human Development Report
  2. Answer
    130
    Question
    India's HDI rank among 189 countries
  3. Answer
    37
    Question
    Infant mortality per thousand in 2015
  4. Answer
    850
    Question
    Child sex ratio in Haryana and Punjab is below
  5. Answer
    23
    Question
    Major states ranked in the state HDI
  6. Answer
    65
    Question
    Death rate per thousand in 2015, times ten
Instructions
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_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 3, Human Development._

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Human development bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Publishes the Human Development Report.
    Item
    UNDP
  2. Clue
    Composite index; India scores 0.640.
    Item
    HDI
  3. Clue
    21.9 percent of Indians below it in 2011-12.
    Item
    Poverty line
  4. Clue
    Mission for an open defecation-free India.
    Item
    Swachh Bharat
  5. Clue
    Fell from 148 to 37 per thousand.
    Item
    IMR
  6. Clue
    Top state in HDI and literacy.
    Item
    Kerala
  7. Clue
    Lowest literacy, 63.82 percent.
    Item
    Bihar
  8. Clue
    Below 850 in Haryana and Punjab.
    Item
    Sex ratio
  9. Clue
    GDP rises without jobs.
    Item
    Jobless growth
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 3, Human Development._

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A cluster of dwellings where people live and command a territory as economic base is a:

  1. Human settlement
  2. Tea plantation
  3. Trade corridor
  4. River watershed
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Correct answer: A. Human settlement

1. People erect houses and claim an area. 2. Settlements range from hamlets to metropolises. 3. That cluster is a human settlement. _Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 4, Human Settlements._

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