Evolution of Settlements

Q.

Write the various occupations found in village

Q. What is the criteria for an urban area to be classified as a town?

1. Population between 5000 to 1 lakh
2. Population between 5000 to 10000
3. Population between 1 lakh and 1 million
4. Population between 1 million and 10 million

Q. Why did the hunter-gatherers have a nomadic lifestyle?

1. Their settlements were not permanent.
2. They ran out of grazing land for their animals.
3. They moved according to the seasons.
4. They eventually exhausted all resources in a place.

Q. _______ are cities having more than 10 million people.

1. Metropolitan cities
2. Capital cities
3. Mega cities
4. Class 1 cities

Q.

Why was Narmada Bachao Andolan started?

1. To help the people displaced by the Sardar Sarovar dam

2. To clean River Narmada

3. To build embankments to prevent the flooding of River Narmada

4. To fight for gender equality

Q. DDA stands for ____.

1. Delhi Drainage Authority
2. Delhi Development Authority
3. Delhi Damage Repair Authority
4. Delhi Disaster Authority

Q. Humans lived in bands as hunter-gatherers for approximately years.

1. 1.8 lakh
2. 3.7 lakh
3. 2.2 lakh
4. 3.4 lakh

Q. What do the following detail refer to?
Natural features of land, shape of the surface and altitude and the height of a place above the sea level.

1. Demography
2. Topography
3. Geography
4. Biography

Q. Which of the following are classifications in Indian settlements hierarchy?

1. Metropolitan cities
2. Class 1 cities
3. Capital cities
4. Mega cities

Q. ___ is a type of settlement where agriculture and domestication are the primary occupation.

1. Urban
2. Metropolitan
3. Rural
4. Tribal

Q. What was the major advantage of adopting a sedentary lifestyle for the hunter-gatherers?

1. They did not have to travel long distances to obtain food.
2. They did not have to look after the needs of the animals they reared.
3. They learned how to make stone tools.
4. They depended on nature for food and water.

Q. Choose the characteristics of urban settlements.

1. Has administrative headquarters like municipalities, corporations, and military cantonments.
2. Offers better job opportunities in industries and the service sector.
3. Most of the professions practised are not related to agriculture.
4. Most of the professions practised are related to agriculture.

Q. Which of the following is/are the services through which urban India contributes to the economic development?

1. Finance
2. Transport
3. Communication
4. Agriculture

Q. Which Indian city has the highest population?

1. Bangalore
2. Mumbai
3. Chennai
4. Delhi

Q. Which of the following are services through which urban India contributes to the economic development?

1. Finance
2. Transport
3. Communication
4. Agriculture

Q. Nomadic people were the first ones to establish permanent settlements.

1. True
2. False

Q. What was the major advantage of adopting a sedentary lifestyle for the hunter-gatherers?

1. They learned how to make stone tools.
2. They did not have to travel long distances to obtain food.
3. They did not have to look after the needs of the animals they reared.
4. They depended on nature for food and water.

Q. The transition of a population from an agrarian economy to an urban, industrial and service sector economy is known as ____.

1. Industrialisation
2. Modernisation
3. Urbanisation
4. Centralisation

Q. DDA stands for ____.

1. Delhi Disaster Authority
2. Delhi Drainage Authority
3. Delhi Damage Repair Authority
4. Delhi Development Authority

Q. Why were nomads dependent on climate?

1. For growing crops
2. For food and water
3. For irrigation and food
4. For food and income

Q. The transition of a population from an agrarian economy to an urban, industrial and service sector economy is known as ____.

1. Modernisation
2. Centralisation
3. Urbanisation
4. Industrialisation

Q. In cities areas reserved for the entertainment of the population comes under _____.

1. Transport Land use
2. Commercial land use
3. Residential land use
4. Recreational land use

Q. Account for some of the reasons for formation of early settlements.

1. Exhaustion of natural resources by hunter-gatherers.
2. Nomads had to expend energy following the animals they hunted.
3. Irregular food and water supply due to climate change.
4. Hunter-gatherers learnt to manipulate nature to make their food.

Q. Which of the following is/are the classifications in Indian settlements hierarchy?

1. Metropolitan cities
2. Class 1 cities
3. Capital cities
4. Mega cities

Q. Agriculture and domestication are ______ occupations in rural settlements.

1. non-essential
2. secondary
3. primary
4. tertiary

Q. As settlements got bigger and people were required to look after the place, they started taking responsibilities of which of the following?

1. Building forts
2. Trading goods
3. Growing cash crops
4. Administration

Q. Identify the correct word from the given options, which means the following:

1. Mohalla
2. Colony
3. Hamlet
4. Sector

Q. what is the meaning of urbanisation