HSC Arts (English Medium)
Academic Year: 2024-2025
Date & Time: 8th July 2025, 11:00 am
Duration: 3h
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- All questions are compulsory.
- Draw relevant diagrams/graphs wherever necessary.
- Use of colour pencil is allowed.
- Use of map stencil is allowed.
- Figures to the right indicate full marks.
- Tie your supplement of map to your main answer sheet.
Complete the chain according to the co-relation of factors in Column ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’:
| Column ‘A’ | Column ‘B’ | Column ‘C’ |
| (1) Ice-covered region | (a) Capital of the country | (l) Harmful farming |
| (2) Administrative city | (b) Artificial satellite | (m) Sparsely populated |
| (3) Shifting agriculture | (c) Use of manpower | (n) Communication |
| (4) Cottage industry | (d) Polar region | (o) Weavers |
| (5) Global Positioning System (GPS) | (e) Small size of farm | (p) Tokyo |
Chapter:
Important component of population change:
Literacy
Sex ratio
Birth rate
Age composition
Chapter:
Land use in rural areas:
Industries
Trade
Recreational
Forests
Chapter:
Characteristics of extensive commercial grain farming:
Monoculture, use of irrigation, tropical region, food crops.
Monoculture, use of machineries, temperate region, cereal production.
Monoculture, use of manpower, equatorial region, horticulture.
Monoculture, use of scientific knowledge, subtropical region, production of pulses.
Chapter:
Mineral-based industries:
Iron and steel industries
Textile industries
Sugar industries
Food processing industries
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Tertiary economic activities:
Agriculture
Transportation of goods
Honey production
Petrochemical industry
Chapter:
If the proportion of the working population is high, then the possibility of economic development is high.
Chapter:
Africa’s Kalahari desert is the land of Eskimos.
Chapter:
Every country has its own definition of literacy.
Chapter:
Location of human settlement is not affected by physical factors.
Chapter:
Assertion: In population pyramid, a broad base indicates high number of children in a country.
Reason: Broad apex is an indicator of high number of elderly in a country.
Only Assertion is correct.
Only Reason is correct.
Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is a correct explanation of Assertion.
Both Assertion and Reason are correct, but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion.
Chapter: [2] Population : Part - 2
Identify the incorrect factor:
Plains
Lakes
Plateaus
Mountains
Chapter:
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Arrange the following settlements according to the population in ascending order:
- Metropolitan city
- Suburb
- City
- Megacity
Chapter:
Identify the correct group:
- Social Science
- Political Science
- Economics
- Demography
- Social Geography
- Political Geography
- Economic Geography
- Soil Geography
- Climatology
- Biology
- Geology
- Remote Sensing
- History
- Geomorphologу
- Psychology
- Demography
Chapter:
Arrange the following industries in ascending order on the basis of their capital investment.
- Medium-scale industries
- Small-scale industries
- Large-scale industries
- Micro-scale industries
Chapter:
Give a geographical reason:
Climate affects the distribution of the population.
Chapter:
Give a geographical reason:
Literacy rate of a country is an indicator of its socio-economic development.
Chapter: [2] Population : Part - 2
Give a geographical reason:
Mining is developed in the Chhota Nagpur Plateau of India.
Chapter: [4] Primary Economic Activities
Give a geographical reason:
Regional development is dependent on the physiography of a region.
Chapter:
Give a geographical reason:
The scope of geography is widening day-by-day.
Chapter:
Give a geographical reason:
Extensive agriculture is a commercial type of agriculture.
Chapter:
Differentiate between:
Lumbering in Equatorial forests and Temperate forests
Chapter: [4] Primary Economic Activities
Distinguish between:
Demographic Transition Theory Stage first and Stage five
Chapter:
Differentiate between:
Water transport and Air transport
Chapter:
Differentiate between:
Physical region and Political region.
Chapter: [7] Region and Regional Development
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Differentiate between:
Determinism and Possibilism
Chapter:
Mark and name the following on the outline map of the world with a suitable index:
- Lowest populated continent
- A city in India: attracts a large number of immigrants: Mumbai
- A country having highest life expectancy: Japan
- Administrative city: Moscow
- London to New York Airways
- Suez Canal
- Area of commercial animal husbandry in South America: Pampas
- Industrial region in South Africa: Kimberley-Witwatersrand
Chapter:
Read the following maps and answer the questions given below:
Questions:
- What does the map indicate?
- In which continent Perth and Sydney industrial regions are located?
- Name the industrial regions in the U.S.A.
- Which continent has less industrial development?
- In which country Osaka-Kobe and Kyoto industrial regions are located?
Chapter:
Write a short note on the following:
Land use in Rural area.
Chapter:
Write a short note on the following:
Factors affecting fishing activity.
Chapter:
Write a short note on:
Importance of satellites as a means of communication.
Chapter:
Write short note.
Causes of regional imbalance
Chapter: [7] Region and Regional Development
Write a short note on the following:
Nature of Geography.
Chapter:
Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:
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Age Composition There are three basic determinants of age composition of a population. These includes natality (fertility), mortality, and mobility. According to Clarke (1972), these three determinants of age structure are interdependent, and any change in one of these may influence the other two. Through these variables, socio-economic conditions influence the age structure. It is fertility rate that determines the proportion of population in different age categories. That is why, the countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, which are characterised by high birth rates, display large proportion in young age groups. In most of the countries of these continents, about two-fifth of population is below 15 years of age. In India, 36% of its population is below 15 years, according to 2001 census. By contrast, the countries with low fertility rate and longer life expectancy have about one fourth of their population in the younger age groups. But the proportion of population in the older age groups in these countries is relatively large. Most of the countries of Northwestern Europe and North America, CIS countries, Australia, and Japan belong to this category. A continuous downward trend in fertility contributes to the increase in the proportion of population in older age. |
Questions:
- What are basic determinants of age composition?
- Which continent has large proportion of young age group?
- According to 2001 census, what is the percentage of population aged below 15 years in India?
- Which factor is responsible for increase in old age group?
Chapter:
Draw a diagram and label it.
Triangular pattern settlement
Chapter: [3] Human Settlements and Land Use
Draw a neat, labelled diagram:
Classification of tertiary economic activity-communication.
Chapter:
Draw a diagram and label it:
Provision of infrastructure and stimulus to minimize regional imbalance.
Chapter: [7] Region and Regional Development
Explain the human factors affecting distribution of population.
Chapter: [1] Population : Part - 1
Classify and explain the industries based on the source of raw materials.
Chapter: [5] Secondary Economic Activities
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