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Find the real termRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the migration wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Sends or receivesRead the answer and worked solution →Which waveRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Migration 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 →

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Find the real term

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Questions
  1. Correct
    Remittance
    Choices
    1. Remittance
    2. Remitance
    3. Remittence
  2. Correct
    Diaspora
    Choices
    1. Diaspera
    2. Diaspora
    3. Diasporah
  3. Correct
    Indentured
    Choices
    1. Indentered
    2. Indenturd
    3. Indentured
  4. Correct
    Girmit
    Choices
    1. Girmit
    2. Girmet
    3. Girmut
  5. Correct
    Mauritius
    Choices
    1. Mauritus
    2. Mauritius
    3. Mauritious
  6. Correct
    Emigration
    Choices
    1. Emigrasion
    2. Emigretion
    3. Emigration
Instructions
Pick the lane with the real migration term. The other two are made up.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 2, Migration: Types, Causes and Consequences._

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Slice the migration words

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Does not match the category
  1. Comet
  2. Sonnet
  3. Retina
  4. Piston
Matches the category
  1. Push
  2. Pull
  3. Stream
  4. Remit
  5. Diaspora
  6. Girmit
Instructions
Slice only the words from migration.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 2, Migration: Types, Causes and Consequences._

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Sends or receives

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Upper category
Receives
Lower category
Sends
Items
  1. Category
    Receives
    Item
    Maha state
  2. Category
    Receives
    Item
    Delhi
  3. Category
    Receives
    Item
    Gujarat
  4. Category
    Receives
    Item
    Haryana
  5. Category
    Sends
    Item
    UP
  6. Category
    Sends
    Item
    Bihar
  7. Category
    Sends
    Item
    Rajasthan
Instructions
Send each state to the track for whether it mainly sends or receives migrants.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 2, Migration: Types, Causes and Consequences._

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