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UPSC CDS Indian Geography — practice questions — page 24

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How many cities had at least one million people in 2016?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the capitalsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the village patternsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the urban cut-offsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the pilgrim townsRead the answer and worked solution →Compact or dispersedRead the answer and worked solution →Who coined whatRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Settlements bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A geographer calls human geography the synthetic study of the relationship between human societies and the earth's surface. Who said this?Read the answer and worked solution →Who described human geography as the changing relationship between the unresting man and the unstable earth?Read the answer and worked solution →Geographers speak of the eye of a storm and the mouth of a river. These borrow terms from what?Read the answer and worked solution →German geographers described the state or country as what?Read the answer and worked solution →What indicates the level of cultural development of a society, in the view of human geographers?Read the answer and worked solution →A primitive tribe adapts fully to the dictates of nature and worships it. This interaction is termed:Read the answer and worked solution →Benda in the Abujh Maad forest burns patches of forest and farms on the ash. This practice is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Humans create health resorts on highlands, ports on coasts and satellites in space. Early scholars called this:Read the answer and worked solution →Kari works in a glass-domed campus in dark, snowy winters and eats flown-in tropical fruit. Which town is she in?Read the answer and worked solution →Who introduced the middle path between determinism and possibilism called neodeterminism?Read the answer and worked solution →Neodeterminism is also known by which traffic-light nickname?Read the answer and worked solution →The free run taken by developed economies has led to which set of problems?Read the answer and worked solution →In the early colonial period, what prompted the exploration and description of new areas?Read the answer and worked solution →Which approach of the 1930s focused on the uniqueness of each region?Read the answer and worked solution →The phase using computers and statistics to map human patterns was called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Discontent with the quantitative revolution produced three new schools of thought in which decade?Read the answer and worked solution →Which school of thought used Marxian theory to explain poverty and inequality?Read the answer and worked solution →Which school stressed lived experience and perception of space by ethnic and religious groups?Read the answer and worked solution →The welfare or humanistic school was mainly concerned with which aspects?Read the answer and worked solution →Electoral geography interfaces with which sister discipline?Read the answer and worked solution →Behavioural geography draws on which sister discipline?Read the answer and worked solution →

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How many cities had at least one million people in 2016?

  1. 80
  2. 162
  3. 438
  4. 512
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Correct answer: D. 512

1. There were about 80 million cities in 1950. 2. There were 438 in 2005. 3. By 2016 there were 512. _Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 10, Human Settlements._

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Catch the capitals

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Items
  1. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    New Delhi
  2. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Canberra
  3. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Beijing
  4. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Addis Ababa
  5. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Washington
  6. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Mecca
  7. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Dhanbad
  8. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Pittsburgh
Category
Admin town
Instructions
Catch the national capitals that are administrative towns. Let the rest fall.
_Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 10, Human Settlements._

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Pop the village patterns

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Other terms
  1. Cubic
  2. Spiral
  3. Oval
Matching terms
  1. Linear
  2. Rectangular
  3. Circular
  4. Star like
  5. T-shaped
  6. Cruciform
Instructions
Pop the shapes of rural settlement patterns.
_Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 10, Human Settlements._

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