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About what share of India's total area is identified as drought prone?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the quake zonesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the flood StatesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the disaster numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the natural hazardsRead the answer and worked solution →Natural or human madeRead the answer and worked solution →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 →

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About what share of India's total area is identified as drought prone?

  1. About 3 per cent
  2. About 60 per cent
  3. About 90 per cent
  4. About 30 per cent
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Correct answer: D. About 30 per cent

1. Nearly 19 per cent of area suffers drought every year. 2. About 30 per cent of the area is drought prone. 3. Around 50 million people are affected. _Source: syllabus Geography, India Physical Environment, Chapter 7, Natural Hazards and Disasters._

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Catch the quake zones

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Items
  1. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Northeast states
  2. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Kachchh
  3. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Kashmir Valley
  4. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Uttarakhand
  5. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Dharamshala
  6. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Deccan plateau
  7. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Karnataka
  8. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Tamil Nadu
Category
Very high risk
Instructions
Catch the very high earthquake risk areas. Let the safe ones fall.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India Physical Environment, Chapter 7, Natural Hazards and Disasters._

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Pop the flood States

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Other terms
  1. Rajasthan
  2. Ladakh
  3. Karnataka
Matching terms
  1. Assam
  2. West Bengal
  3. Bihar
  4. Eastern UP
Instructions
Pop the States named as high flood-prone.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India Physical Environment, Chapter 7, Natural Hazards and Disasters._

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