Question Bank - Geography
Question Bank - Geography
SHORT QUESTIONS:
• Catastrophism?
• Denudation chronology?
• Ecology?
• Ecoclimate?
• Ecosystem?
• Environmental geography?
• Form geomorphology?
• Geoclimate?
• Highway climatology?
• Human biometeorology?
• Microclimatology?
• Palimpsest topography?
• Private climate?
• Process geomorphology?
• Regional climatology?
• Uniformitarianism?
• Vegetation geography?
• Weather?
• Archipelago of stellar islands?
• Big bang theory?
• Cold origin concept?
• Filament?
• Galactic revolution?
• Galactic year?
• Galaxy?
• Giant planets?
• Hot origin concept?
• Kuiper belt?
• Law of conservation of angular momentum?
• Nebula?
• Planetesimals?
• Solar system?
• Supernova?
• Terrestrial planets?
• Cambrian period?
• Carboniferous period?
• Cretaceous period?
• Devonian period?
• Eocene epoch?
• Epoch?
• Era?
• Geological clock?
• Holocene epoch?
• Jurassic period?
• Miocene epoch?
• Oligocene epoch?
• Ordovician period?
• Period?
• Permian period?
• Pleistocene epoch?
• Pliocene epoch?
• Radiocarbon epoch?
• Silurian epoch?
• Triassic period?
• Barysphere?
• Core?
• Crust?
• Density?
• Lithosphere?
• Mantle?
• Moho-discontinuity?
• Primary waves?
• Pyrosphere?
• Secondary waves?
• Seismic waves?
• Seismology?
• Seismograph?
• Surface waves?
• Vulcanicity?
• Weichert-Guttenberg discontinuity?
• Zone of law velocity?
• Conservative plate boundary?
• Constructive plate boundary?
• Destructive plate boundary?
• Dodecahedron?
• Flight from the poles?
• Land hemisphere?
• Opening of Tethys?
• Pangea?
• Panthalasa?
• Plate?
• Plate tectonics?
• Tetrahedron?
• Water hemisphere?
• Isostasy?
• Law of compensation?
• Law of floatation?
• Level of compensation?
• Zone of compensation?
• Anticlines?
• Anticlinorium?
• Axis of fold?
• Closed folds?
• Crustal bending?
• Diastrophic force?
• Dip?
• Endogenetic forces?
• Epeirogenetic movement?
• Exogenetic forces?
• Extreme events?
• Fan folds?
• Fault?
• Fault dip?
• Fault plane?
• Fault scarp?
• Folds?
• Nappes?
• Open folds?
• Orogenetic movement?
• Plunge folds?
• Recumbent folds?
• Reverse faults?
• Rift valley?
• Strike?
• Strike-slip fault?
• Synclines?
• Synclinorium?
• Acid igneous rocks?
• Angular unconformity?
• Aphanitic igneous rocks?
• Argillaceous rocks?
• Batholiths?
• Bedding plane?
• Breccias?
• Butte?
• Calcareous sedimentary rocks?
• Carbonaceous rocks?
• Carbonate minerals?
• Cleavage?
• Contact metamorphism?
• Disconformity?
• Felsic igneous rocks?
• Fissility?
• Glassy igneous rocks?
• Lacustrine sedimentary rocks?
• Hypabyssal igneous rocks?
• Igneous rocks?
• Laccoliths?
• Lapilli?
• Lopolith?
• Mafic igneous rocks?
• Mesa?
• Metamorphic rocks?
• Non-conformity?
• Paraconformity?
• Pegmatitic igneous rocks?
• Phacoliths?
• Phaneritic igneous rocks?
• Porphyritic igneous rocks?
• Plutonic rocks?
• Sedimentary rocks?
• Silicate minerals?
• Siliceous rocks?
• Sills?
• Tors?
• Unconformity?
• Aaaa lava flow?
• Acid lava cone?
• Active volcanoes?
• Adventives cone?
• Adventives crater?
• Basic lava cone?
• Caldera?
• Cinder cone?
• Crater?
• Dormant volcanoes?
• Extinct volcanoes?
• Felsic lava?
• Fire girdle of the pacific?
• Fumaroles?
• Geyser?
• Lahar?
• Mafic lava?
• Nested calderas?
• Nested craters?
• Pahoehoe lava?
• Parasite cone?
• Solfatara?
• Strato-cone?
• Tephra?
• Volcanic cones?
• Volcanic plugs?
• Vulcanicity?
• Conservative plate boundaries?
• Constructive plate boundaries?
• Destructive plate boundaries?
• Elastic rebound theory?
• Epicenter?
• Focus?
• Mercalli scale?
• Reservoir-induced seismicity(RIS)
• Richter magnitude scale?
• Tsunamis?
• Tsunamigenic earthquakes?
• Block mountains?
• Closing of Tethys?
• Conservative plate boundaries?
• Constructive plate boundaries?
• Cordilleras?
• Destructive plate boundaries?
• Folded mountains?
• Forelands?
• Geosynclines?
• Horst?
• Kratogen?
• Level of no strain?
• Lithogenesis?
• Medianmass?
• Mesogeosynclines?
• Monogeosyclines?
• Mountain chain?
• Mountain group?
• Mountain ranges?
• Mountain ridge?
• Mountain system?
• Opening of Tethys?
• Orogen?
• Orogenesis?
• Plate?
• Phase of regressional sea?
• Phase of transgressional sea?
• Plate tectonics?
• Polygeosynclines?
• Randketten?
• Bhangar?
• Cryoplain?
• Etchplain?
• Flood plains?
• Karst plains?
• Khaddar?
• Outwash plain?
• Panplain?
• Pediplain?
• Peneplains?
• Till plain?
• Wind eroded plains?
• Alkali takes?
• Alluvial fan lakes?
• Bitter takes?
• Crater takes?
• Delta lakes?
• Garden of lakes?
• Karst lakes?
• Morainic lakes?
• Oxbow lakes?
• Plunge pool lakes?
• Raft lakes?
• Rock basin lakes?
• Saline lakes?
• Tarn lakes?
• Thermokarst lakes?
• Block disintegration?
• Boulder cleaving?
• Cambering?
• Carbonation?
• Chelation?
• Congelifraction?
• Debris flow?
• Debris slides?
• Dirt cracking?
• Earth flow?
• Exfoliation?
• Flaking?
• Granular disintegration?
• Hydration?
• Hydrolysis?
• Kaolinization?
• Landslides?
• Massmovement?
• Mudflow?
• Oxidation?
• Rock creep?
• Rock falls?
• Rock slides?
• Rock wastes?
• Salt weathering?
• Shattering?
• Sheeting?
• Slaking?
• Slumping?
• Soil creep?
• Spalling?
• Weathering?
• Absteigende entwicklung?
• Accident?
• Aufsteigende entwicklung?
• Boschungen?
• Climatic interruption?
• Fastenbene?
• Geographical cycle?
• Gleichformige entwicklung?
• Haldenhang?
• Incised meanders?
• Knick point?
• Knick falls?
• Monadnocks?
• Panplanation?
• Panplains?
• Padiplanation?
• Paired terraces?
• Peneplains?
• Primarumpf?
• Piedmont treppen?
• Polycycles?
• Rejuvenation?
• Stream lengthening?
• Topographic discordance?
• Uniformitarianism?
• Uplifted peneplains?
• Valley deepening?
• Valley in valley topography?
• Valley widening?
• Annular drainage?
• Antecedent streams?
• Barbed drainage pattern?
• Beheaded stream?
• Captor stream?
• Centripetal drainage pattern?
• Consequent streams?
• Dendritic drainage pattern?
• Insequent streams?
• Inverted streams?
• Misfit valley?
• Obsequent streams?
• Parallel drainage pattern?
• Pinnate drainage pattern?
• Radial drainage pattern?
• Resequent streams?
• Sequent streams?
• Subsequent streams?
• Trellised drainage pattern?
• Twin-river system?
• Water gap?
• Wind gap?
LONG QUESTIONS:
CORE-2: CARTOGRAPHY
SHORT QUESTIONS:
• What is cartography?
• Define cartography?
• What is map?
• Mention two features of map?
• What is the need of map?
• Why cartography is known as science of communication?
• What are the elements of communication used in cartography?
• What is link and channel in the science of cartography?
• What are the branches of cartography?
• What is gore?
• What is zone?
• What is latitude?
• What is longitude?
• Mention characteristics of latitude?
• Mention characteristics of longitude?
• What is graticules?
• What is International Date Line?
• What is equator?
• What is scale?
• What is plain scale?
• What is comparative scale?
• What is diagonal scale?
• What is map projection?
• What is standard parallel?
• What is standard meridian?
• What are parallels?
• What is ellipsoid?
• What is the use of ellipsoid?
• What is geoid?
• What is the use of geoid?
• What is cylindrical projection?
• What is conical projection?
• What is reduced scale in map projection?
• What is the importance of standard parallel?
• What is the importance of standard meridian?
• What are the features of cylindrical projection?
• What are the features of conical projection?
• What is slope?
• What are the elements of slope?
• What is dip?
• What is strike?
• What is stratigraphy?
• What is gradient?
• What is the Wentworth’s method to determine the slope?
• What is the smith method to determine the slope?
• What is vertical interval?
• What is horizontal equivalent?
LONG QUESTIONS:
LONG QUESTIONS:
CORE-4: Climatology
SHORT QUESTIONS:
• What is aerology?
• What is dynamic climatology?
• What is ecological climate?
• What is geoclimate?
• What is human biometeorology?
• What is physical climatology?
• What is satellite climatology?
• What is an aurora?
• What is Boyle’s gas law?
• What is Charles’s gas law?
• What is cold point?
• What is combined gas law?
• What is mesopause?
• What is a Noctilucentcloud?
• What is stratopause?
• What is tropopause?
• What is albedo?
• What is absorption?
• What is atmospheric window?
• What is an aurora light?
• What are chromospheres?
• What is corona?
• What is counter radiation?
• What is diffuse blue light?
• What is diffuse reflection?
• What is effective radiation?
• What are faculae?
• What is insolation?
• What is inverse square law?
• What is law of scattering?
• What is net radiation?
• What is photosphere?
• What is photon?
• What is scattering?
• What is Rayleigh scattering?
• What is solar wind?
• What is Stefan-Boltzmann law?
• What is sunspot?
• What is Wien’s displacement law?
• what is counter radiation?
• Ground radiation?
• What is inversion of temperature?
• Isanomalous temperature?
• What is isotherms?
• Radiation window?
• Sensible heat?
• Coriolis force?
• Ekman spiral?
• Frictional force?
• Friction layer?
• Geostrophic balance?
• Geostrophic wind?
• Gradient wind?
• Hydrostatic equilibrium?
• Isobars?
• Laminar flow?
• Pressure gradient?
• Turbulent flow?
• What is Doldrum?
• Equatorial westerlies?
• Ferrel cell?
• Hadley cell?
• Index cycle?
• Intertropical fronts?
• Jet streams?
• Rossby waves?
• Southern oscillation?
• Southern oscillation index?
• Walker circulation?
• Aerological monsoon?
• Blood rain?
• Burst of monsoon?
• Cherry blossoms?
• Chinook/foehn?
• Doctor?
• Heat island?
• Monsoon?
• Snow eater?
• Tidal surge?
• Western disturbances?
• Absolute humidity?
• Adiabatic lapse rate?
• Adiabatic process?
• Convective instability?
• Condensation?
• Dew?
• Dew point?
• Diabetic process?
• Dry adiabatic rate?
• Environmental lapse rate?
• Evaporation?
• Evapotranspiration?
• Frost?
• Frost point?
• Freezing rain?
• Glazed frost?
• Hail?
• Hoar frost?
• Humidity capacity?
• Hydrological cycle?
• Latent heat?
• Latent heat of condensation?
• Latent heat of fusion?
• Latent heat of sublimation?
• Latent heat of vaporization?
• Moist adiabatic rate?
• Mixing ratio?
• Neutral equilibrium?
• Potential evapotranspiration?
• Relative humidity?
• Rime?
• Saturated air?
• Saturation deficit?
• Sleet?
• Specific humidity?
• Stable equilibrium?
• Sublimation?
• Transpiration?
• Vapour pressure?
• Cheyenne fog?
• Cloud droplets?
• Cloud seeding?
• Dew point?
• Drizzle?
• Freezing rain?
• Hail?
• Inversion of rainfall?
• Leeward slope?
• Man-induced precipitation?
• Rainfall regime?
• Rime?
• Saturated air?
• Sleet?
• Virga?
• Windward slope?
• Air mass?
• Blood rain?
• Cold air mass?
• Lake-effect snow?
• Mechanical air mass modification?
• North-eastern?
• Synoptic climatology?
• Thermo dynamic modification?
• Warm air mass?
• Alberta low?
• Ana front?
• Anticyclone?
• Baroclinic surface?
• Barotropic surface?
• Blocking anticyclone?
• Cold front?
• Cold front occlusion?
• Colorado low?
• Convergent circulation?
• Cyclogenesis?
• Cyclone?
• Defomatory circulation?
• Divergent circulation?
• Dynamic cyclone?
• Front?
• Frontal theory?
• Frontal zone?
• Frontogenesis?
• Frontolysis?
• Halo?
• Insolation cyclone?
• Kata front?
• Line of discontinuity?
• Occlusion?
• Occluded front?
• Polar front?
• Rotatory circulation?
• Secondary cyclone?
• Stationary front?
• Storm tracks?
• Thermal cyclone?
• Translator circulation?
• Warm front?
• Warm front occlusion?
• Wave cyclone?
• Wave theory?
• Annular belt?
• Baguio?
• Cloud burst?
• Disaster?
• Down burst?
• Easterly waves?
• Extreme events?
• Fujita scale?
• Hurricanes?
• Hurricane wave?
• Storm surge?
• Taifu?
• Tornadoes?
• Tornado outbreak?
• Tornado missiles?
• Typhoons?
• Concentration of thermal efficiency?
• Empirical classification?
• Genetic classification?
• Geoclimate?
• Hekistotherms?
• Megatherms?
• Mesotherms?
• Microthems?
• Moisture index?
• Precipitation effectiveness?
• Xerophytes?
LONG QUESTIONS:
Core-5: Oceanography
SHORT QUESTIONS:
• Abyssal hills?
• Abyssal plains?
• Continental margins?
• Continental rise?
• Continental shelf?
• Continental slope?
• Deep sea fans?
• Geyots?
• Hypsometry?
• Ocean deeps?
• Ocean trenches?
• Seamounts?
• Submarine canyons?
• Absorption?
• Aphotic zone?
• Density?
• Halocline?
• Hydrological cycle?
• Insolation?
• Isotherms?
• Photic zone?
• Photosphere?
• Pycnocline?
• Reflection?
• Salinity?
• Scattering?
• Specific heat?
• Thermocline?
• Adsorption?
• Chlorinity?
• Halocline?
• Principle of constant proportion?
• Pycnocline?
• Residence time?
• Salinity?
• Salinometer?
• Sinks of ocean salinity?
• Thermocline?
• Authigenic deposit?
• Back wash?
• Biogenic sediments?
• Breaker waves?
• Break water?
• Bulk emplacement?
• Continental shelf?
• Continental slope?
• Cosmogenous sediments?
• Deep sea fans?
• Density current?
• Diatoms?
• Evaporites?
• Foraminifere?
• Glacial marine sediments?
• Graded bedding?
• Gravels?
• Gravity waves?
• Groins?
• Hydrogenous sediments?
• Lithogenous sediments?
• Littoral zone?
• Macro-biogenic sediments?
• Micro-biogenic sediments?
• Marina snowfall?
• Neritic sediments?
• Ocean deposits?
• Pelagic matter?
• Phosphorites?
• Retail sedimentation?
• Radiolarian?
• Relict sediments?
• Seawall?
• Shelf break?
• Terrigenous sediments?
• Turbidity currents?
• Undertow currents?
• Ambphidromic point?
• Apogean tides.
• Spring tide.
• Neap tide.
• Quadtree position.
• Conjunction position.
• Diurnal inequalities.
• Diurnal tidal pattern.
• Ebb.
• Ebb currents.
• Ebb tides.
• Flood currents.
• Flood tides.
• High tide water.
• Low tide water.
• Lunar tidal bulge.
• Nadir lunar bulge.
• Nadir tide.
• Nodal point.
• Nodal line.
• Opposition.
• Perigean tide.
• Semidiurnal tidal pattern.
• Solar bulge.
• Syzygy.
• Tidal bore.
• Tidal bulge.
• Tidal range.
• Tides.
• Zenith lunar bulge.
• Zenith tides.
• Centrifugal force.
• Centripetal force.
• Conjunction.
• Cotidal lines.
• Diurnal inequalities.
• Diurnal tidal pattern.
LONG QUESTIONS:
• What is Data?
• What is Information?
• What is Spatial Data?
• What is Attribute data?
• What is Geographic Data?
• What is Data Matrix?
• What is primary data?
• What are the advantages of primary data?
• What are the disadvantages of primary data?
• What are the methods to collect primary data?
• What is secondary data?
• What are the sources of secondary data?
• Whatare the advantages of secondary data?
• Whatare the disadvantages of secondary data?
• What is nominal scale of data measurement?
• What is ordinal scale of data measurement?
• What is interval scale of data measurement?
• What is ration scale of data measurement?
• What is frequency distribution?
• What is frequency curve?
• What is frequency polygon?
• What is histogram?
• What is relative frequency?
• What is group and ungroup data?
• What is central tendency?
• What is mean?
• What are the advantages of mean?
• What are the disadvantages of mean?
• Formula to calculate mean?
• Use of mean in geography?
• What is median?
• What are the advantages of median?
• What are the disadvantages of median?
• Formula to calculate median?
• Use of median in geography?
• What is mode?
• What are the advantages of mode?
• What are the disadvantages of mode?
• Use of mode in geography?
• What is geometric mean?
• What are the uses of geometric mean in geography?
• What is weighted mean?
• What are the uses of weighted mean in geography?
• What is sampling?
• What is universe?
• What is population in sampling?
• Types of sampling?
• What is random sampling?
• What are the advantages of random sampling?
• What are the disadvantages of random sampling?
• What is stratified sampling?
• What are the advantages of stratified sampling?
• What are the disadvantages of stratified sampling?
• What is systematic sampling?
• What are the advantages of systematic sampling?
• What are the disadvantages of systematic sampling?
• What is purposive sampling?
• What are the advantages of purposive sampling?
• What are the disadvantages of purposive sampling?
• What is dispersion?
• What is mean deviation?
• Formula to calculate mean deviation from the mean?
• Formula to calculate mean deviation from the median?
• Formula to calculate the mean deviation from the mode?
• Advantage of mean deviation?
• Disadvantage of mean deviation?
• What is standard deviation?
• Formula to calculate the standard deviation?
• Advantage of standard deviation?
• Disadvantage of standard deviation?
• What is variation?
• Formula to calculate coefficient of variation?
• What is chi-square test?
• What is the use of chi-square test?
• What is test of goodness of fit in chi-square test?
• What is test of independence in chi-square test?
• What is test of homogeneity in chi-square test?
• What is null hypothesis?
• What is alternative hypothesis?
• What is type one error?
• What is type two error?
• What is correlation?
• What is positive correlation?
• What is negative correlation?
• What is zero correlation?
• Formula to calculate correlation?
• What is the formula to calculate rank correlation?
• What is test of significance?
• Formula to calculate coefficient of determination?
• What is regression?
• What are the uses of regression?
• What is linear regression?
• What is the formula to calculate regression?
LONG QUESTION:
SHORT QUESTIONS:
LONG QUESTIONS:
LONG QUESTIONS:
SHORT QUESTIONS:
• Azonal soils?
• Biological factory?
• Contour bunding?
• Cutons?
• Edaphons?
• Field capacity stage?
• Humification?
• Microphytic feeders?
• Ped?
• Phytophages?
• Regoliths?
• Saprophages?
• Saturated stage?
• Soil profile?
• Soil structure?
• Tied-ridging?
• Wilting stage?
• Zonal soils?
• Abrupt speciation?
• Artificial selection?
• Biodegradation?
• Biogeochemical cycle?
• Biogeographical processes?
• Biomass?
• Biomass pyramid?
• Biosynthesis?
• Chemotrophs?
• Ecological productivity?
• Ecological pyramids?
• Energy pyramid?
• Food chain?
• Gradual speciation?
• Gross primary production?
• Natural selection?
• Net primary production?
• Speciation?
• Trophic level?
• Arboreal animals?
• Chaparrals?
• Alpine veld?
• Biome?
• Climbers?
• Epiphytes?
• Forest steppe?
• Formation?
• Grass savanna?
• Grass steppe?
• Hemi-epiphytes?
• Holo-epiphytes?
• Lhanos?
• Meadow steppe?
• Pseudo-epiphytes?
• Savanna?
• Shrub savanna?
• Sour veld?
• Steppe?
• Tree savanna?
• Tundra?
• Woodland savanna?
• Xerophytic structure?
• Disaster?
• Disaster prediction?
• Disaster preparedness?
• Disaster prevention?
• Disaster recovery?
• Disaster risk?
• Disaster vulnerability?
• Disaster warning system?
• Environmental hazard?
• Environmental stress?
• Extreme events?
• Conservative plate boundaries?
• Constructive plate boundaries?
• Destructive plate boundaries?
• Elastic rebound theory?
• Epicenter?
• Focus?
• Mercalli scale?
• reservoir-induced seismicity (RIS)
• Richter magnitude scale?
• Tsunami?
• Tsunamigenic earthquakes?
• Annualr belt?
• Bagulo?
• Cloud burst?
• Disaster?
• down burst?
• Easterly waves?
• Extreme events?
• Fujita scale?
• Hurricanes?
• Hurricane waves?
• Storm surge?
• Taifu?
• Tornadoes?
• Tornado outbreak?
• Tornado missiles?
• Typhoons?
• Acid rain?
• Agro forestry?
• Cloud seeding?
• Ecological view point?
• Economic deterministic?
• Environmental degradation?
• Greenhouse effect?
• Shifting cultivation?
• Air pollution?
• Acid rain?
• Bag filter?
• Cyclone separator?
• Decibel?
• Dieback?
• Electrostatic?
• Environmental pollution?
• Greenhouse effect?
• Non-point pollution?
• Point pollution?
• Smog?
• Solid waste?
• Sound pollution?
• Ecological resources?
• Environmental resources?
• Exhaustible resources?
• Inexhaustible resources?
• Managed ecological resources?
• Natural resources?
• Non-renewable resources?
• Non-utilitarian resources?
• Potential and developed resources?
• Renewable resources?
• Resource?
• Resource base?
• Resource reserves?
• Biodiversity?
• Biodiversity hotspots?
• Genetic biodiversity?
• Marine protected area (MPA)?
• Species biodiversity?
• Species extinction?
• Wetlands?
LONG QUESTIONS:
• What is region?
• Define region?
• What is formal region?
• What is functional region?
• What is vernacular region?
• What is planning?
• What is problem?
• What is planning region?
• What is regional planning?
• Characteristics of planning region?
• What is ideal planning region?
• What is the need of planning?
• What is the need of five year plans in India?
• What is regional disparity?
• Causes of regional imbalances?
• What is growth pole?
• What is polarization?
• What is growth center?
• What is growth foci?
• What is growth point?
• What is external economy?
• What is agglomeration?
• What is linkage?
• What are the types of linkage?
• What is direct effect in growth pole theory?
• What is indirect effect in growth pole theory?
• What is primary growth pole?
• What is secondary growth pole?
• What is growth centre?
• What is economic space?
• What is geographic space?
• What is pre-industrial stage in core-periphery model?
• What is transitional stage in core periphery model?
• What is industrial stage in core periphery model?
• What is postindustrial stage in core periphery model?
• Types of economic space?
• Positive external economy?
• Negative external economy?
• Backward linkage?
• Forward linkage?
• Primary growth pole?
• Secondary growth pole?
• Physical linkage?
• Commodity linkage?
• Service linkage?
• Human linkage?
• Monetary linkage?
• Information linkage?
• What is backwater?
• What is an external economy?
• What is an internal economy?
• What is spread effect?
• What is backwash effect?
• What is growing point?
• What is north?
• What is south?
LONG QUESTION:
LONG QUESTIONS:
SHORT QUESTIONS:
• Trans Himalaya
• The shiwalik
• Purvanchal Himalaya
• Peninsular India
• Coastal plain
• Western ghat
• Eastern ghat
• Sahyadri
• South west monsoon
• Urbanization
• Cropping pattern
• Commercial farming
• Plantation agriculture
• Kharif crop
• Rabi crop
• Regur
• Red and yellow soil
• Alluvial soil
• Laterite soil
• Tibet Himalaya
• Inter tropical convergence zone
• Anthracite coal
• Bituminous coal
LONG QUESTION:
• Physiography of Himalaya?
• Discuss about indo-Gangetic plain
• Discuss about peninsular India
• What is monsoon and discuss the south west monsoon
• Discuss about Indian monsoon
• How south west monsoon effect Indian economy
• Discuss various soil types in India
• Discuss various types of natural vegetation in India
• Briefly explain the climate of India
• The Himalayas are highly prone to landslides- discuss the causes
• Discuss on demographic characteristics of India
• Trends of population growth in India
• What is urbanization and discuss its advantages and disvantages
• Discuss on major tribal group of India
• Discuss on population problem in India
• Briefly discuss on population policies in India
• Distribution and utilization of iron ore with special reference to India
• Distribution and utilization of coal with special reference to India
• Distribution and utilization of petroleum with special reference to India
• Distribution and utilization of natural gas with special reference to India
• Factors of development of automobile
• Discuss the factors of location of iron & steel industry
• Discuss the factors of location of cotton textile industry
• Types of irrigation in India
• Characteristics of Indian agriculture
• Cropping pattern in India
• Discuss the production and distribution of rice in India
• Discuss the production and distribution of wheat in India
• Discuss the production and distribution of tea in India
• Discuss the production and distribution of coffee in India
• Problems in Indian agriculture
SHORT QUESTIONS:
• What is hazard?
• What is disaster?
• What is man-made hazard?
• What is natural hazard?
• What is vulnerability?
• What is risk?
• What is environmental stress?
• What is compound disaster?
• What is disaster management?
• Principles of disaster management.
• What is hazard risk?
• What is component of hazard risk?
• Phases of pre disaster stage.
• Phases of post disaster stage.
• What is disaster preparedness?
• What is disaster mitigation?
• What is disaster prevention?
• What is relief?
• What is recovery?
• What is rehabilitation?
• What is disaster cycle?
• What is the full form of NGO?
• What is the full form of GO?
• What is the full form of NDMA?
• What is the full form of NIDM?
• What is the full form of NDRF?
• What is the full form of ODRAF?
• What is the full form of OSDMA?
• What is flood?
• What is storm surge?
• What is water logged flood?
• What is flash flood?
• What is dam failure flood?
• What is urban flood?
• Cause of flood.
• Positive effects of flood.
• Negative effects of flood.
• Elements of pre-flood disaster management.
• Elements of post-flood disaster management.
• Flood controlling measures.
• What is drought?
• What is meteorological drought?
• What is agricultural drought?
• What is hydrological drought?
• What is socio-economic drought?
• What is earthquake?
• What is focus?
• What is epicentre?
• Types of seismic waves.
• What is seismograph?
• What is seismology?
• Cause of earthquake.
• Constructive plate boundaries.
• Destructive plate boundaries.
• Constructive plate boundaries.
• Circum pacific belt.
• Mid-continental belt.
• Mid-Atlantic belt.
• What is Tsunami?
• What is coastal regulation zone?
• What is landslide?
• Factors of landslide.
• What is fall?
• What is sinking?
• What is slide?
• What is block slide?
• What is spreading?
• What is creeping?
• What is rock creep?
• What is talus creep?
• What is slide?
• What is slumping?
• What is earthflow?
• What is slide?
• What is mudflow?
• What is cyclone?
• What is low pressure center
LONG QUESTIONS:
• What is hazard and discuss its type in detail?
• What is disaster and discuss its type in detail?
• What is disaster cycle and discuss its component?
• What is disaster management and discuss the phases of pre disaster stage?
• What is disaster management and discuss the phases of post disaster stage?
• Discuss the role of NGO in disaster management.
• Discuss the functions of government organisation in disaster management.
• Discuss about the role of NDMA in disaster management.
• Discuss the role of NIDM in disaster management.
• Discuss the role of NDRF in disaster management.
• Discuss the role of ORDAF in disaster management.
• Discuss the role of OSDMA in disaster management.
• What is flood and discuss the factors of flood.
• Discuss about the factor and effect of flood.
• Discuss the cause and effect of cyclone.
• What is drought and discuss its type with effect.
• What is earthquake and discuss the cause of earthquake.
• Discuss the cause and adverse effect of earthquake.
• Discuss the adverse effect and safety measures of Tsunami.
• What is landslide and discuss various types of landslide.
• Discuss about effect of landslides.
• Discuss about the effect and cause of fire hazards.
• Discuss the adverse effect and remedial measures of industrial hazard.
• What is nuclear hazard and discuss its effect.
• Discuss about salient features of India’s disaster management policy.
• What is census?
• Types of census?
• De facto census.
• De jure census.
• Merits of de facto census.
• Demerits of de facto census.
• Merits of de jure census.
• Demerits of de jure census.
• Salient features of census.
• Uses of census.
• Problems of census.
• What is national sample survey?
• Population density.
• Physiological density.
• Nutritional density.
• Agricultural density.
• Economic density.
• What is fertility?
• Crude birth rate.
• Corrected birth rate.
• General fertility rate.
• Age-specific fertility rate.
• Total fertility rate.
• Gross reproduction rate.
• Net reproduction rate.
• Completed fertility rate.
• Standardised fertility rate.
• Factors determining fertility rate.
• What is mortality?
• Crude death rate.
• Age specific death rate.
• Infant mortality rate.
• Standardised death rate.
• Cause specific death rate.
• Factors affecting death rate.
• What is migration?
• Pull factors of migration.
• Push factors of migration.
• What is immigration and emigration?
• What is in-migration and out-migration?
• Internal migration and external migration.
• Migration stream.
• Migration interval.
• Sources of data for internal migration.
• Vital statistics method to measure migration.
• Census survival rate method to measure migration.
• Migration rate method.
• Determinants of internal migration in India.
• Effects of migration.
• Phase of stagnation.
• Phase of steady growth.
• Phase of rapid growth.
• Phase of high growth.
• Rural to rural migration.
• Rural to urban migration.
• Urban to urban migration.
• Urban to rural migration.
• Age sex ratio.
• Age sex pyramid.
• Rural-urban composition.
• Literacy.
• Occupational structure.
LONG QUESTIONS:
• What is resource?
• Define resource.
• What are resource creating factors?
• What is resistance?
• What is neutral stuffs?
• What is stock?
• What is reserve?
• What is potential resources?
• Elements of resources?
• What is inexhaustible resource?
• What is exhaustible resources?
• Renewable resources.
• Non-renewable resources.
• What is ubiquities resource?
• What is commonalities resource?
• What is rarities resource?
• What is Uniquities?
• What is unused resource?
• What is latent resource?
• What is tropical rain forest?
• Tropical deciduous forests.
• Mediterranean forests.
• Temperate deciduous forests.
• Temperate mixed forest.
• Coniferous forest.
• Tropical grassland forest.
• Temperate grassland forest.
• Tundra forest.
• What is energy?
• What is conventional energy?
• What are the major constituents of coal?
• Anthracite.
• Bituminous.
• Lignite.
• Peat.
• The Ruhr region.
• Uses of petroleum.
• Major petroleum producing areas in India.
• What is hydro-electricity?
• Advantages of hydro-electricity.
• Physical factors for hydro-electricity.
• Economic factors for hydro-electricity.
• Photo voltaics process in solar energy.
• Solar thermal technology in solar energy.
• What is geothermal energy?
• What is biomass energy?
• What is mineral?
• Types of mineral.
• Ferrous mineral.
• Ferro-alloy mineral.
• Non-ferrous mineral.
• Non-metallic minerals.
• Mineral fuels.
• Mineral fertilizers.
• Earth materials.
• Hematite.
• Magnetite.
• Limonite
• Siderite.
• Psilomelane.
• Bronite.
• Manganite.
• Hosmanite.
• Polianite.
• What is resource management?
• What is resource conservation?
• What is sustainability of resources?
• What is resource evaluation?
• What are the aims of resource conservation?
LONG QUESTIONS:
LONG QUESTIONS:
• What is research?
• Define research.
• Objectives of research.
• Types of research.
• Objectives of research.
• What is basic research?
• What is case study research?
• What is descriptive research?
• What is experimental research?
• Significance of research.
• Ethics of research.
• What is plagiarism?
• Characteristics of research.
• Types of data.
• What is primary data?
• Advantage of primary data.
• Disadvantage of primary data.
• What is secondary data?
• Advantage of secondary data.
• Disadvantage of secondary data.
• What is observation method?
• Advantage of observation method.
• Disadvantage of observation method.
• What is survey method?
• Advantage of survey method.
• Disadvantage of survey method.
• What is depth interview method?
• Advantage of depth interview.
• Disadvantage of depth interview.
• Focus group interview method.
• Objectives of focus group.
• Advantages of focus group method.
• Disadvantage of focus group method.
• What is case study method?
• Types of case studies.
• Advantage of case studies.
• Disadvantage of case studies.
• What is experimental method?
• What is completely randomized design?
• What is randomized block design?
• What is Latin square design?
• What is factorial design?
• What is action research?
• What is questionnaire?
• What is structured questionnaire?
• What is unstructured questionnaire?
• What are the qualities of questionnaire?
• Advantage of questionnaire.
• Disadvantage of questionnaire.
• What is closed ended questionnaire?
• What is open ended questionnaire?
• What is schedule?
• What is focus group discussion?
• What is PRA?
• What are the characteristics of PRA?
• Advantage of PRA.
• Disadvantage of PRA.
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Kendrapara Autonomous College
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