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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 →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Settlements bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A geographer notes that people crowd into a tiny part of the earth. What share of world population lives on about 10 per cent of the land?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Small, sparsely spaced settlements specialising in agriculture are called:

  1. Garrisons
  2. Villages
  3. Cities
  4. Seaports
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Correct answer: B. Villages

1. They live off land based primary activities. 2. They are small and spread out. 3. They are villages. _Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 4, Human Settlements._

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Urban settlements specialise in:

  1. Secondary and tertiary activities
  2. Primary land based activities
  3. Farming and herding only
  4. Fishing and hunting only
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Correct answer: A. Secondary and tertiary activities

1. Cities process raw materials and make goods. 2. They also provide services. 3. So secondary and tertiary activities. _Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 4, Human Settlements._

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A compact, closely built village with farms outside it, common in the northern plains, is:

  1. Fragmented
  2. Clustered
  3. Dispersed
  4. Hamleted
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Correct answer: B. Clustered

1. Houses stand close in a recognisable shape. 2. Farms and pastures lie outside. 3. This is a clustered settlement. _Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 4, Human Settlements._

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