Previous Year Questions
2024
GEOGRAPHY — HONOURS
Paper : CC-8
(Economic Geography)
Full Marks : 50
Category - A
Answer any five questions (each within 50 words).
2 × 5
1. What do you understand by the term ‘Economic Man’?
2. What is Social forestry?
3. Define the Quinary sector.
4. What is plantation farming?
5. What is ‘Green corridor’?
6. Why is pipeline considered as a mode of transportation?
7. What is WTO?
Category - B
Answer any four questions (each within 150 words).
5 × 4
8. Distinguish between ‘consumption’ and ‘exchange’.
9. What are the problems of Special Economic Zones in India?
10. Differentiate between ‘Subsistence farming’ and ‘Commercial farming’.
11. Explain the role of ‘Economic Rent’ in agriculture.
12. ‘Resource is a dynamic concept.’ — Explain.
13. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Air Transport in India?
Category - C
Answer any two questions (each within 500 words).
10 × 2
14. What is Economic Geography? What are its different approaches?
15. Discuss critically Weber’s theory of industrial location.
16. What do you understand by the term ‘manufacturing’? Classify manufacturing activities with proper examples.
17. Discuss the causes of rising importance of international trade in recent times.
2023
GEOGRAPHY — HONOURS
Paper : CC-8
(Economic Geography)
Full Marks : 50
Category - A
Answer any five questions (each within 50 words).
2 × 5
1. What do you understand by transport cost?
2. Define quaternary activity with examples.
3. Define ‘Isotim’.
4. What is mixed farming system?
5. What is SEZ?
6. What is ‘connectivity’?
7. What is ‘Golden Quadrilateral’?
Category - B
Answer any four questions (each within 150 words).
5 × 4
8. Distinguish between goods and services.
9. Differentiate Secondary economic activities and Tertiary economic activities.
10. Why is fishing regarded as primary as well as secondary activity?
11. Mention the criteria used for delineating industrial regions.
12. What is the importance of technology parks in India?
13. How does the Indian Railways contribute to the economic development of the country?
Category - C
Answer any two questions (each within 500 words).
10 × 2
14. Critically discuss Von Thünen’s model of Agricultural Land use with suitable diagram.
15. Discuss the significance and dynamic nature of Economic Geography.
16. Elaborate the features of tropical and temperate fishing with mention of methods of conservation.
17. Write an essay on the evolution, structure and functions of WTO.
2022
GEOGRAPHY — HONOURS
Paper : CC-8
(Economic Geography)
Full Marks : 50
Category - A
Answer any five questions (each within 50 words).
2 × 5
1. Define locational rent.
2. What is material index?
3. Define agrobased industry with examples.
4. What is BRICS?
5. Briefly describe the concept of ‘goods and services’.
6. Mention two impacts of mining activity on environment.
7. State the significance of economic man.
Category - B
Answer any four questions (each within 150 words).
5 × 4
8. What are the characteristics of primary sector activities?
9. State the principal features of EPZ.
10. What are the problems of Special Economic Zones in India?
11. Distinguish between ‘consumption’ and ‘exchange’.
12. Classify manufacturing industries.
13. Write a short note on ‘Economic Distance’.
Category - C
Answer any two questions (each within 500 words).
10 × 2
14. State the salient features of intensive cultivation of rice in Monsoon Asia.
15. Discuss the causes of rising importance of international trade in recent times.
16. Discuss critically Weber’s theory of industrial location.
17. Bring out the significance of mining for economic development with examples from India.
2021
GEOGRAPHY — HONOURS
Paper : CC-8
(Economic Geography)
Full Marks : 50
Category - A
Answer any five questions (each within 50 words).
2 × 5
1. Define sedentary agriculture.
2. What are the advantages of agglomeration of industries as per Weber?
3. What do you understand by ‘Technology Park’?
4. State the importance of ‘Special Economic Zone (SEZ)’.
5. What is economic distance?
6. What are the major components of transport cost?
7. What is meant by agroforestry?
Category - B
Answer any four questions (each within 150 words).
5 × 4
8. Write a short note on concept of manufacturing region.
9. Bring out the significance of Sea-routes for economic development with example from India.
10. Examine the role of trading blocs on international trade.
11. What are the nature and characteristics of quaternary economic activities?
12. Write the role of Golden Quadrilateral in Indian economic development.
13. “Economic activities define the level of development of a country.” — Explain.
Category - C
Answer any two questions (each within 500 words).
10 × 2
14. Discuss the different approaches to Economic Geography. Comment on the concept of ‘Economic Man’. 7+3
15. Give an outline of Von Thünen’s theory and state its relevance in the modern system of farming. 7+3
16. Account for the locational pattern of commercial fishing grounds in the world.
17. Assess the role of WTO and BRICS in international trade.
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