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Settlement geography - Test Set 2

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20 questions

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  1. Question 1

    The place where individual lives is called:
    1. Dwelling
    2. Settlement
    3. Both (a) and (b)
    4. None of these
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  2. Question 2

    A settlement in which majority of the people are involved in primary activity is called as
    1. Village
    2. Hamlet
    3. Mega city
    4. All of these
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  3. Question 3

    The concentration of large cities is called:
    1. Megalopolis
    2. Metropolitan
    3. Megapolitan
    4. None of these
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  4. Question 4

    The largest urban agglomerations exists in:
    1. Developed World
    2. Modern city
    3. Less Developed
    4. None of these
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  5. Question 5

    The places which attract people from a surrounding area because of service availability are called:
    1. Climatic Zone
    2. Outer Zone
    3. Central Place
    4. All of these
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  6. Question 6

    The sparsely located small settlements are called:
    1. town
    2. catchment area
    3. Hamlet
    4. village
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  7. Question 7

    The clustered rural settlement is:
    1. closely built up houses
    2. sparsely built up houses
    3. unplanned houses
    4. scattered houses
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  8. Question 8

    Larger settlements which are specialising in secondary and tertiary activities are known as:
    1. Rural settlements
    2. Sub-urbans
    3. Urban settlements
    4. Rented settlements
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  9. Question 9

    Urban centre with population of more than one lakh is called a:
    1. Class IV town
    2. Class III town
    3. Class II town
    4. Class I town
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  10. Question 10

    A town containing military base is known as:
    1. Defence town
    2. Garrison town
    3. Military town
    4. Closed town
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  11. Question 11

    The towns that have developed in mineral rich areas are known as:
    1. Mining towns
    2. Tourist towns
    3. Educational town
    4. Administrative town
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  12. Question 12

    Varanasi, Mathura, Amritsar, Madurai, Puri are:
    1. Religious towns
    2. Commercial towns
    3. Heritage town
    4. Mining towns
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  13. Question 13

    Nainital, Mussoorie, Shimla, Pachmarhi, Jodhpur are:
    1. Transport towns
    2. Industrial towns
    3. Tourist towns
    4. Educational town
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  14. Question 14

    Panna, Para, Palli, Nagla and Dhani are examples of:
    1. Clustered settlement
    2. Compact settlement
    3. Hamleted settlement
    4. Dispersed settlement
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  15. Question 15

    Uttarakhandand, Himachal Pradesh are example of:
    1. Compact settlement
    2. Rural settlement
    3. Isolated settlement
    4. Urban settlement
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  16. Question 16

    Settlement is the kind of settlement that generally develops in the fertile plain and river valleys.
    1. Clustered rural settlement
    2. Clustered grouped settlement
    3. Clustered grouped settlement
    4. None of the Above
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  17. Question 17

    Name any modern town built by the British in modern style.
    1. Chandigarh
    2. Mumbai
    3. Patna
    4. Kochi
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  18. Question 18

    Towns in India having historical background spanning over 2000 years are known as:
    1. Historical towns
    2. Administrative towns
    3. Cultural towns
    4. Social towns
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  19. Question 19

    Name the ‘urban agglomeration’ having the highest share of immigration population in India.
    1. Mumbai
    2. Amritsar
    3. Chennai
    4. Port Blair
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  20. Question 20

    Arrange the following categories of towns in a sequence order according to their development in India.
    (i) Ancient towns
    (ii) Ultra-modern towns
    (iii) Metropolitans
    (iv) Modern towns Options
    1. i, iv, iii, ii
    2. iii, ii, iv, i
    3. ii, iv, i, iii
    4. iv, i, iii, ii
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