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Geography Official Board Paper 2025-2026 HSC Arts (English Medium) 12th Standard Board Exam Question Paper Solution

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Geography [Official Board Paper]
Marks: 80 Maharashtra State Board
HSC Arts (English Medium)

Academic Year: 2025-2026
Date & Time: 7th March 2026, 3:00 pm
Duration: 3h
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Note:

  1. All questions are compulsory.
  2. Draw relevant diagrams/graphs wherever necessary.
  3. Use of colour pencil is allowed.
  4. Use of map stencil is allowed.
  5. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
  6. Tie your supplement of map to your main answer sheet.

[20]1. | Answer the sub-questions as per given instructions:
[5]1. (A)

Complete the chain according to the co-relation of factors in column ‘A’ ‘B’ and ‘C’:

No. ‘A’ ‘B’ ‘C’
(1) Making maps (a) Delhi (l) Niger
(2) Administrative cities (b) Pampas (m) Small-Scale Industry
(3) Grass-Land Region (c) Observation (n) Skills of Geographer
(4) Toys (d) Bangladesh (o) New York
(5) Population Explosion (e) Paper industry (p) Argentina
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[5]1. (B) | Choose the correct option and complete the sentences:
[1]1. (B) (1)

Tertiary activities include ______.

Fishing

Sugar Industry

Animal Husbandry

Trade

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[1]1. (B) (2)

Human factors affecting the distribution of population -

Climate

Soils

Transportation

Relief

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[1]1. (B) (3)

A major crop of extensive commercial agriculture -

coffee

wheat

rice

medicinal plants

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[1]1. (B) (4)

Functional region -

Pune Metropolitan

Latur

Satara

Amravati

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[1]1. (B) (5)

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited is ______ type of establishment.

Joint Sector

Co-operative Sector

Public Sector

Private Sector

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[5]1. (C) | Answer the following questions as per given instructions:
[1]1. (C) (1)

Arrange the following industries in descending order based on capital investments -

  1. Small scale industry
  2. Micro scale industry
  3. Large scale industry
  4. Medium scale industry
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[1]1. (C) (2)

Identify the incorrect factor -

  1. Research
  2. Training
  3. Hunting
  4. Teaching
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[1]1. (C) (3)

Arrange the countries on the basis of their location from West to East -

  1. France
  2. India
  3. Japan
  4. U.S.A.
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[1]1. (C) (4)

Identify a country passing through the ‘late expanding stage’ of Demographic Transition Model/Theory-

  1. Germany
  2. Sweden
  3. Congo
  4. China
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[1]1. (C) (5)

Ideal location for fishing fields -

  1. rugged coasts, shallow seas, hot climate, growth of planktons.
  2. shallow seas, confluence of warm and cold ocean currents, growth of planktons, cold climate.
  3. continental shelf, growth of planktons, good skill of fishing, warm climate.
  4. continental shell, broken coasts, growth of planktons, warm climate.
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[1]1. (D) (1)

Write True or False:

Economic Geography is a branch of Human Geography.

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[1]1. (D) (2)

Write True or False:

Migration is not a component of population change.

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[1]1. (D) (3)

Write True or False:

The area between urban and rural area is called urban rural fringe.

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[1]1. (D) (4)

Write True or False:

Various physical and human factors influence the development of agriculture.

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[1]1. (D) (5)

Write True or False:

Factors affecting industrial location are the same everywhere.

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[12]2. | Give geographical reasons (Any FOUR):
[3]2. (1)

Give geographical reasons:

Fruit-processing industries are found in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts of Konkan region.

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Chapter: [5] Secondary Economic Activities
[3]2. (2)

Give geographical reasons:

Himalaya mountain region have low population.

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[3]2. (3)

Give geographical reasons:

Regional development is dependent on physical setting.

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Chapter: [7] Region and Regional Development
[3]2. (4)

Give a geographical reason:

Literacy rate of a country is an indicator of its socio-economic development.

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Chapter: [2] Population : Part - 2
[3]2. (5)

Give geographical reasons:

Not all rural settlements change into urban settlements.

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Chapter: [3] Human Settlements and Land Use
[3]2. (6)

Give geographical reasons:

Geographical diversity is responsible for trade to occur.

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[9]3. | Differentiate between (Any THREE):
[3]3. (1)

Differentiate between donor region and recipient region.

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Chapter: [2] Population : Part - 2
[3]3. (2)

Differentiate between shifting agriculture and plantation agriculture.

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[3]3. (3)

Distinguish between waterways and airways.

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[3]3. (4)

Differentiate between physical geography and human geography.

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Chapter: [8] Geography : Nature and Scope
[3]3. (5)

Differentiate between formal regions and functional regions.

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Chapter: [7] Region and Regional Development
[11]4.
[6]4. (A) | Mark and name the following on the outline map of the world with suitable index (Any SIX):

Mark and name the following on the outline map of the world with suitable index:

  1. Most populated city in India
  2. The country having highest sex-ratio in the world
  3. Grand Bank fishing area
  4. Lumbering area of Canada
  5. Any one industrial region in Japan
  6. Oil producing country in South America
  7. Major port in South Africa
  8. Trans Australian Railway route
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