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Kinds of droughtRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Disaster bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Raw cotton in the boll is worth little, but spun into yarn it is worth more. What do secondary activities do?Read the answer and worked solution →Each worker repeats one task to make large quantities of standard parts. What is this method called?Read the answer and worked solution →A factory where machines think and run without human aid during manufacturing shows which advanced stage?Read the answer and worked solution →Major centres of modern manufacturing cover what share of the world's land area?Read the answer and worked solution →What is described as the most important factor in locating an industry?Read the answer and worked solution →Which industries are named as having a global market?Read the answer and worked solution →Steel, sugar and cement plants sit near raw material sources. Why?Read the answer and worked solution →Dairy products are processed close to milk supply. Which factor explains this?Read the answer and worked solution →Factories cluster near a leader industry to share linkages and savings. What is this called?Read the answer and worked solution →A small electronics unit could be set up almost anywhere, near a road, with few workers. What kind of industry is it?Read the answer and worked solution →On the basis of size, industries are grouped into which three classes?Read the answer and worked solution →A potter making pots at home with family help for the village market runs which kind of unit?Read the answer and worked solution →A workshop outside the home using simple power-driven machines and semi-skilled labour is:Read the answer and worked solution →Large-scale manufacturing developed in the last 200 years first in which regions?Read the answer and worked solution →Commercial farming on an industrial scale, financed by big corporations, is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Iron and steel supplies raw material for machine tools that make other goods. What kind of industry is it?Read the answer and worked solution →Old heavy industries near coalfields, with pollution and waste heaps, are now nicknamed:Read the answer and worked solution →The Ruhr region produces what share of Germany's steel?Read the answer and worked solution →Iron is extracted from ore by smelting in a blast furnace with limestone and what?Read the answer and worked solution →Why can mini steel mills locate near markets rather than near mines?Read the answer and worked solution →The Pittsburgh steel area of the USA, now losing ground, is called the:Read the answer and worked solution →The cotton textile industry has three sub-sectors. Which one is most labour intensive?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the basic industriesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the location factorsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the industry factsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the smokestacksRead the answer and worked solution →Basic or consumerRead the answer and worked solution →

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Kinds of drought

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Items
  1. Group
    Meteorolog.
    Item
    Poor rainfall
  2. Group
    Meteorolog.
    Item
    Rain maldistrib
  3. Group
    Agricultural
    Item
    Low soil water
  4. Group
    Agricultural
    Item
    Crop failure
  5. Group
    Hydrological
    Item
    Empty aquifer
  6. Group
    Hydrological
    Item
    Low reservoir
  7. Group
    Hydrological
    Item
    Dry lakes
Groups
  1. Item
    Meteorolog.
  2. Item
    Agricultural
  3. Item
    Hydrological
Instructions
Drop each sign onto the type of drought it defines.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India Physical Environment, Chapter 7, Natural Hazards and Disasters._

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Type the number

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Questions
  1. Answer
    5
    Question
    Earthquake zones of India
  2. Answer
    2001
    Question
    Year of the Gujarat earthquake after 1956
  3. Answer
    2004
    Question
    Year of the December tsunami
  4. Answer
    40
    Question
    Flood-prone land in million hectares
  5. Answer
    30
    Question
    Drought-prone share of India's area, per cent
  6. Answer
    1
    Question
    Indian plate speed in cm per year
Instructions
Type the number only.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India Physical Environment, Chapter 7, Natural Hazards and Disasters._

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Disaster bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    1994 world conference on disasters.
    Item
    Yokohama
  2. Clue
    Harbour wave from an undersea quake.
    Item
    Tsunami
  3. Clue
    Calm cloudless centre of a cyclone.
    Item
    Eye
  4. Clue
    Sea level rise driven by a cyclone.
    Item
    Storm surge
  5. Clue
    National Flood Commission.
    Item
    Barh Ayog
  6. Clue
    Largest riverine island, in Assam.
    Item
    Majuli
  7. Clue
    Possible cause of the Latur quake.
    Item
    Bhima fault
  8. Clue
    Scarcity of food grains in drought.
    Item
    Akal
  9. Clue
    Rapid sliding of bedrock on slopes.
    Item
    Landslide
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India Physical Environment, Chapter 7, Natural Hazards and Disasters._

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