Previous Year Question Paper (2025)
2025
GEOGRAPHY — HONOURS
Paper : DSCC-10
(Cultural and Settlement Geography)
Full Marks : 75
Category - A
Answer any ten questions (each within 50 words):
2 × 10
1. What do you mean by non-material culture?
2. Write any two processes of cultural segregation with examples.
3. What do you mean by Cultural Trait?
4. Write the names of any two major cultural realms of the world.
5. What is language family? Give an example.
6. Mention two factors influencing house types of any rural area.
7. What are the building materials of houses in rural mountainous region of India?
8. Write two criticisms of Concentric Zone Model.
9. What is wet-point settlement?
10. What do you mean by C.B.D.?
11. What is urban fringe?
12. What is Hamlet?
13. What do you mean by temporary and permanent settlement?
14. Name a cultural geographer from France.
Category - B
Answer any five questions (each within 125 words):
5 × 5
15. Discuss the components of culture.
16. What is the significance of cultural diversity in a country?
17. What do you understand by social morphology of rural settlements?
18. Distinguish between metropolis and megalopolis.
19. Briefly explain the formation of a conurbation.
20. Which factors favour the formation of dispersed settlements?
21. Describe the elements of morphology of rural settlement.
Category - C
Answer any two questions (each within 500 words):
15 × 2
22. Discuss the scope and content of cultural geography.
23. Describe the distribution of major cultural hearths of the world with their characteristics.
24. Critically discuss Hagerstrand's model of cultural diffusion.
25. Discuss critically the model of urban morphology propounded by Harris and Ullman with proper diagram.