You all know that CBSE Board Exam is coming in February. So, I have brought CBSE Board Class 12 Geography Important Questions 2024 which are being asked the same for last 3-4 years. Try to solve these questions for securing high marks in your board examinations.
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CBSE Board Class 12 Geography Important Questions 2024: Objective
1. Why is access to market’ essential for setting up industries in the world? Explain.
2. “Urban marketing centres have more widely specialised urban services.” Explain the statement.
3. Mention any four features of the North-Eastern Plateau Region’ mineral belt of India.
4. Mention any four features of the ‘South-Western Plateau Region’ mineral belt of India.
5. Read the following source and answer the questions that follow:
The concept of development is dynamic and has evolved during the second half of twentieth century. In the post World War II era, the concept of development was synonymous to economic growth which is measured in terms of temporal increase in Gross National Product (GNP) and per capita income/per capita consumption. But, even the countries having high economic growth, experienced speedy rise in poverty because of its unequal distribution. So, in 1970s, the phrases such as redistribution with growth and growth and equity were incorporated in the definition of development. While dealing with the questions related to redistribution and equity, it was realised that the concept of development cannot be restricted to the economic sphere alone. It also includes the issues such as improving the well-being and living standard of people, availing of the health, education and equality of opportunity and ensuring political and civil rights. By 1980s, development emerged as a concept encapsulating wide-spread improvement in social as well as material well-being of all in a society.
(i) Explain the meaning of ‘Multidimensional concept of development’.
(ii) Explain the difference between ‘growth’ and ‘development’.
(iii) Define the term ‘sustainable development’.
6. Why is climate one of the main reasons for the importance of ‘tourism’ in Mediterranean land? Explain with examples.
7. “Iron and Steel industry is called a basic industry.” Support the statement with examples.
8. “High technology’ is known as the latest generation of manufacturing activities in the world.” Support the statement with examples.
9. How are industries a main factor for water pollution in India? Suggest measures to solve problem of water pollution.
10. India has one of the largest road networks in the World.” Examine the statement.
11. What is ‘transport network’? Describe the main features of road transport in the World.
12. Define the term ‘trans-continental railways’. Describe the main characteristics of trans-Siberian railway.
13. On the given political outline map of India, locate and label any five from the following ‘geographical features’ with appropriate symbols:
(1) Bauxite mines located in Odisha.
(2) Ratnagiri-iron-ore mines.
(3) An oil refinery in Uttar Pradesh.
(4) Hazribagh copper mines.
(5) The eastern-most station on the East-West corridor.
(6) The Southern-most metropolitan city connected by Golden Quadrilateral.
14. “There an urgent need to conserve mineral resources.” Justify.
15. Mention the major function of Border Road Organisation (BRO).
16. What is “Golden Quadrilateral’? Give one advantage of it.
17. Explain “Slash and Burn’ agriculture.
18. Examine the concept of “Target Area Planning”.
19. Explain how the International trade is mutually beneficial to nations.
20. “The industries are major air polluters in India.” Evaluate the statement.
21. “Nature provides opportunities and humans make use of these and slowly nature gets humanized.” Substantiate the statement.
22. (i) Name the terminal stations of this Railway line.
(ii) Name the agricultural region and industrial region through which this line passes.
(iii) Why is this railway line considered as the economic artery of Canada?
23. Examine critically the demographic and social consequences of rural-urban migration of population in India.
24. What is the meaning of ‘development”? Explain how equity, sustainability, productivity susta and empowerment are the four pillars of human development.
25. What is the meaning of ‘retail trading”? Describe any two features each of Rural marketing and Urban marketing centres.
26. Note: The following questions are for the Visually Impaired Candidates only, in lieu of Q.
(1) Name the leading Coffee producer State in India.
(2) In which State is Jharia Coal Mining area located?
(3) Mention any important Centre of Cotton Textile Mills of Gujarat.
(4) Name the important seaport of Goa.
(5) Which State of India has the lowest density of population?
CBSE Board Class 12 Geography Important Questions 2024: Subjective
1. Which of the following countries is developing?
(A) Japan
(B) France
(C) Nigeria
(D) Australia
2. Febre is related to-
(A) Due to fatalism
(B) Possibilism
(C) Humanism
(D) None of these
3. Which tribe lives in the Kalahari desert?
(A) Pygmy
(B) Maori
(C) bushman
(D) None of these
4. Which state has the lowest population in India?
(A) Himachal Pradesh
(B) Arunachal Pradesh
(C) Sikkim
(D) Goa
5. Which of these is an industrial city?
(A) Varanasi
(B) Patna
(C) Lahore
(D) Pittsburgh
6. Residents of rural settlements are mainly engaged in:
(A) In primary activities
(B) In tertiary activities
(C) In secondary activities
(D) In quaternary operations
7. Which one of the South American nations is a member of OPEC?
(A) Brazil
(B) Venezuela
(C) Chile
(D) Peru
8. Which one of the following is not related to human geography?
(A) Regional variation
(B) Quantitative Revolution
(C) Spatial organization
(D) Exploration and description
9. Which of the following is not a part of population composition?
(A) Density of population
(B) Age structure
(C) Gender structure
(D) literacy
10. Which of the following books is written by Humboldt?
(A) Geography of Australia
(B) Kansmas
(C) Population Geography
(D) All of these
11. Which of the following is not related to human geography?
(A) Positivism
(B) Possibilism
(C) Oceanography
(D) Humanism
12. The population of million city is-
(A) Less than one lakh
(B) Less than five lakhs
(C) More than ten lakhs
(D) Less than ten lakhs
13. Which of these is an industrial district?
(A) Purnia
(B) Bhopal
(C) Kanpur
(D) All of the above
14. Which of the following numbers given in cubic km represents the total annual rainfall in India?
(A) 2,000
(B) 4,000
(C) 3,000
(D) 5,000
15. In which of these states the production of rice per hectare is highest?
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) Tamil Nadu
(C) Maharashtra
(D) Gujarat
16. Which of these is a medieval city?
(A) Agra
(B) Patna
(C) Chandigarh
(D) Surat
17. Which of these areas is a drought prone area?
(A) West Bengal
(B) Uttar Pradesh
(C) Gujarati
(D) Uttarakhand
18. Which of the following is a non-renewable source of energy?
(A) thermal
(B) water
(C) Wind
(D) Solar
19. Population pyramid is used to show which characteristic of population?
(A) Literacy
(B) Age sex structure
(C) Business structure
(D) All of these
20. Where two roads meet a third road, what size of settlement develops there?
(A) “T” shaped
(B) Star shaped
(C) “Y” shaped
(D) linear
