Evolution of Settlements

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What is a rural area?

Q.

EXPLIN THE IMPORTANCE OF SERVICE SECTOR . EXPLAIN WITH SUTABLE EXAMPLE?

Q. DDA stands for ____.

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

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

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

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In order to attract foreign manufacturing firms, a country needs to develop a. Agrarian facilities b. Cultivable lands c. Media facilities d. Infrastructure facilities.

Q. Give a few examples of public sector activities and explain why the government has taken them up.

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. Agriculture and domestication are ______ occupations in rural settlements.

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

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

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

1. True
2. False

Q. What are the effects of Urbanisation?

1. Rapid increase in population
2. Development of service sector
3. Dynamic life style
4. All of the above

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

1. True
2. False

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. 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.

What is an example of rural life?

Q. how and why did industrialisation and urbanisation go hand in hand?

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

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

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

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

Q. Sort the following in the correct order of how settlements evolved.

1. Adoption of agriculture
2. Increase in population
3. Other professions
4. Production and trade
5. Emergence of towns

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. 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. The project undertaken to provide shelter to the refugees from East Pakistan who were settled in Odisha is ______.

1. Hirakud project
2. Dandakaranya project
3. Mundgod and Bailukuppe project
4. Ganga Cauvery Project

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do you agree with industrialisation and urbanisation go hand in hand

Q. Why were nomads dependent on climate?

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

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. 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.