Match the List-I and List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :List-IList-II(a) Renewable(1) Forests(b) Non-renewable(2) Coal(c) Biotic(3) Water(d) Cyclic(4) Solar energy

The correct matching is a-4, b-2, c-1, d-3.Solar energy is the classic renewable resource, inexhaustible on a human time scale.Coal is a fossil fuel formed over millions of years, so it is non-renewable.Forests are living, so they are a biotic resource.Water is a cyclic resource, continuously recycled through the hydrological cycle.Option A makes forests non-renewable, option B makes water renewable and forests biotic but solar energy cyclic, and option C makes coal renewable.

Economic Activities and Regional Development Questions and Answers

Q: Transplanting method of rice cultivation is most common in which of the following area ?

Transplanting is most common in the deltaic region of West Bengal.In transplanting, rice seedlings are raised in a nursery and then planted by hand in puddled, flooded fields. It needs abundant water and plenty of labour, both available in the densely populated, well-watered Ganga delta, where it gives higher yields than broadcasting the seed.West Odisha, the Saurashtra plain and the Eastern Ghats are drier or hillier, and rice there, where it is grown, is more often sown directly by broadcasting or drilling.

Q: According to the All India Soil and Land use Survey Organization (1970), class V of Land use capability class denotes for :

Class V denotes land very well suited for grazing.The land capability classification adopted by the All India Soil and Land Use Survey divides land into eight classes. Classes I to IV are suitable for cultivation with increasing limitations. Classes V to VIII are not suited to regular cultivation, and the scale for grazing and forestry runs from Class V, very well suited, through Class VI, well suited, and Class VII, fairly well suited, to Class VIII, which is unsuitable for grazing or forestry and is kept for wildlife, recreation or protection.So 'well' and 'fairly well' suited belong to Classes VI and VII, and poor suitability to the bottom of the scale.

Q: Match the List-I and List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :List-IList-II(a) Berbecho(1) Venezuela(b) Conuco(2) Philippines(c) Kaingin(3) Mexico(d) Chena(4) Sri Lanka

The correct matching is a-3, b-1, c-2, d-4.These are regional names for shifting cultivation. Berbecho is used in Mexico, Conuco in Venezuela, Kaingin in the Philippines and Chena in Sri Lanka. Other names include milpa in Mexico and Central America, ladang in Malaysia and Indonesia, and jhum in north-east India.Options A, B and D put Kaingin or Chena in the wrong country, so only option C is right.

Q: Which one of the following countries is known as the "land of co-operatives" ?

The 'land of co-operatives' is Denmark.From the 1880s Danish farmers organised co-operative dairies, bacon factories and egg-export societies, which let small farmers process and market their produce collectively. The movement transformed Danish agriculture into a highly efficient export industry, and co-operatives came to handle most of the country's dairy and meat production.Finland, Sweden and Norway also have strong co-operative movements, but Denmark is the country traditionally called the land of co-operatives.

Q: State farms in Russia are also known as .......... .

State farms in Russia are called sovkhoz.Under the Soviet system a sovkhoz (sovetskoye khozyaystvo, Soviet farm) was a state-owned farm whose workers were paid wages like industrial employees. A kolkhoz was a collective farm, owned nominally by its members, who shared the produce.Kibbutzim are collective settlements in Israel, and latifundia are large private estates of the Roman world and of Latin America, so they are not Russian state farms.

Q: Optimiser behaviour belongs to which of the following approach to industrial location ?

Optimiser behaviour belongs to the least cost approach.Classical location theories such as Alfred Weber's least-cost theory assume an 'economic man' who has complete information and always chooses the optimum location, where the total cost of transport and labour is lowest. This optimiser assumption is the basis of the least-cost approach.The behavioural approach, developed by Allan Pred and others, rejects the optimiser and treats decision-makers as satisficers with imperfect information. The structural approach looks at the wider capitalist system, so neither rests on optimiser behaviour.

Q: Which of the following statements about Weaver's crop combination method is not correct ?

The statement that is not correct is that Weaver's theoretical curve for a five-crop combination was 25% in each of five crops.J.C. Weaver (1954) compared the actual percentage shares of crops in an area with theoretical curves in which the land is shared equally: 100% for a monoculture, 50% each for two crops, 33.3% each for three, 25% each for four, and 20% each for five. The combination with the least standard deviation from these values was chosen. So a five-crop combination has 20%, not 25%, in each crop.The other statements are correct: Weaver first applied the method to the Middle West of the USA, it involves laborious calculations, and Scott modified it to cover crops and livestock together.

Q: Which of the following type was not included in seven-fold system of land classification given by L.D. Stamp ?

The type not included is rural areas.L. Dudley Stamp's Land Utilisation Survey of Britain in the 1930s mapped land in seven categories: forest and woodland; meadowland and permanent grass; arable land; heath and moorland, or rough grazing; gardens and orchards; land agriculturally unproductive, chiefly built-up urban areas; and water.Arable, heath and rough land, and urban (unproductive built-up) land are all categories of the scheme. 'Rural areas' is not, because it is not a type of land use: farmland, woods, heath and water are all rural.

111.

Transplanting method of rice cultivation is most common in which of the following area ?

A.West Odisha
B.Saurashtra Plain
C.Eastern Ghat
D.Deltaic region of the West Bengal

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: D

Transplanting is most common in the deltaic region of West Bengal.

In transplanting, rice seedlings are raised in a nursery and then planted by hand in puddled, flooded fields. It needs abundant water and plenty of labour, both available in the densely populated, well-watered Ganga delta, where it gives higher yields than broadcasting the seed.

West Odisha, the Saurashtra plain and the Eastern Ghats are drier or hillier, and rice there, where it is grown, is more often sown directly by broadcasting or drilling.

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112.

According to the All India Soil and Land use Survey Organization (1970), class V of Land use capability class denotes for :

A.Very well suited for grazing
B.Well suited for grazing
C.Fairly well suited for grazing
D.Poorly suited for grazing

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: A

Class V denotes land very well suited for grazing.

The land capability classification adopted by the All India Soil and Land Use Survey divides land into eight classes. Classes I to IV are suitable for cultivation with increasing limitations. Classes V to VIII are not suited to regular cultivation, and the scale for grazing and forestry runs from Class V, very well suited, through Class VI, well suited, and Class VII, fairly well suited, to Class VIII, which is unsuitable for grazing or forestry and is kept for wildlife, recreation or protection.

So 'well' and 'fairly well' suited belong to Classes VI and VII, and poor suitability to the bottom of the scale.

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113.

Match the List-I and List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :

List-I	List-II
(a) Renewable	(1) Forests
(b) Non-renewable	(2) Coal
(c) Biotic	(3) Water
(d) Cyclic	(4) Solar energy

A.a-4, b-1, c-3, d-2
B.a-3, b-2, c-1, d-4
C.a-2, b-1, c-3, d-4
D.a-4, b-2, c-1, d-3

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: D

The correct matching is a-4, b-2, c-1, d-3.

Solar energy is the classic renewable resource, inexhaustible on a human time scale.
Coal is a fossil fuel formed over millions of years, so it is non-renewable.
Forests are living, so they are a biotic resource.
Water is a cyclic resource, continuously recycled through the hydrological cycle.

Option A makes forests non-renewable, option B makes water renewable and forests biotic but solar energy cyclic, and option C makes coal renewable.

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114.

Match the List-I and List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :

List-I	List-II
(a) Berbecho	(1) Venezuela
(b) Conuco	(2) Philippines
(c) Kaingin	(3) Mexico
(d) Chena	(4) Sri Lanka

A.a-3, b-2, c-4, d-1
B.a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3
C.a-3, b-1, c-2, d-4
D.a-1, b-3, c-4, d-2

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: C

The correct matching is a-3, b-1, c-2, d-4.

These are regional names for shifting cultivation. Berbecho is used in Mexico, Conuco in Venezuela, Kaingin in the Philippines and Chena in Sri Lanka. Other names include milpa in Mexico and Central America, ladang in Malaysia and Indonesia, and jhum in north-east India.

Options A, B and D put Kaingin or Chena in the wrong country, so only option C is right.

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115.

Which one of the following countries is known as the "land of co-operatives" ?

A.Finland
B.Denmark
C.Sweden
D.Norway

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: B

The 'land of co-operatives' is Denmark.

From the 1880s Danish farmers organised co-operative dairies, bacon factories and egg-export societies, which let small farmers process and market their produce collectively. The movement transformed Danish agriculture into a highly efficient export industry, and co-operatives came to handle most of the country's dairy and meat production.

Finland, Sweden and Norway also have strong co-operative movements, but Denmark is the country traditionally called the land of co-operatives.

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116.

State farms in Russia are also known as .......... .

A.Kolkhozes
B.Kibbutzim
C.Sovkhoz
D.Latifundium

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: C

State farms in Russia are called sovkhoz.

Under the Soviet system a sovkhoz (sovetskoye khozyaystvo, Soviet farm) was a state-owned farm whose workers were paid wages like industrial employees. A kolkhoz was a collective farm, owned nominally by its members, who shared the produce.

Kibbutzim are collective settlements in Israel, and latifundia are large private estates of the Roman world and of Latin America, so they are not Russian state farms.

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117.

Optimiser behaviour belongs to which of the following approach to industrial location ?

A.Behavioural Approach
B.Least cost Approach
C.Structural Approach
D.Functional Approach

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: B

Optimiser behaviour belongs to the least cost approach.

Classical location theories such as Alfred Weber's least-cost theory assume an 'economic man' who has complete information and always chooses the optimum location, where the total cost of transport and labour is lowest. This optimiser assumption is the basis of the least-cost approach.

The behavioural approach, developed by Allan Pred and others, rejects the optimiser and treats decision-makers as satisficers with imperfect information. The structural approach looks at the wider capitalist system, so neither rests on optimiser behaviour.

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118.

Which of the following statements about Weaver's crop combination method is not correct ?

A.Weaver was the first to use the statistical technique to demarcate the crop combinations of the Mid-West (U.S.A.).
B.Weaver's method suffers from the set back of laborious calculations.
C.According to Weaver the theoretical curve for the standard measurement of five crop combination was 25% in each of five crops.
D.Scott modified Weaver's method and applied it to a survey of both crop and livestock combinations.

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: C

The statement that is not correct is that Weaver's theoretical curve for a five-crop combination was 25% in each of five crops.

J.C. Weaver (1954) compared the actual percentage shares of crops in an area with theoretical curves in which the land is shared equally: 100% for a monoculture, 50% each for two crops, 33.3% each for three, 25% each for four, and 20% each for five. The combination with the least standard deviation from these values was chosen. So a five-crop combination has 20%, not 25%, in each crop.

The other statements are correct: Weaver first applied the method to the Middle West of the USA, it involves laborious calculations, and Scott modified it to cover crops and livestock together.

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119.

Which of the following type was not included in seven-fold system of land classification given by L.D. Stamp ?

A.Arable
B.Heath and rough
C.Urban areas
D.Rural areas

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: D

The type not included is rural areas.

L. Dudley Stamp's Land Utilisation Survey of Britain in the 1930s mapped land in seven categories: forest and woodland; meadowland and permanent grass; arable land; heath and moorland, or rough grazing; gardens and orchards; land agriculturally unproductive, chiefly built-up urban areas; and water.

Arable, heath and rough land, and urban (unproductive built-up) land are all categories of the scheme. 'Rural areas' is not, because it is not a type of land use: farmland, woods, heath and water are all rural.

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120.

Assertion (A) : The satellite imageries have revolutionized. The technique of land use classification.
Reason (R) : Traditional land use survey gives a static description of existing land use and is very time, effort and money consuming.

Which one of the following is correct ?

A.Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
B.Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
C.(A) is true but (R) is false
D.(A) is false but (R) is true

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: A

Both statements are true and the Reason explains the Assertion.

Satellite imagery transformed land use classification. Images cover large areas at once, repeat at regular intervals, record bands beyond visible light, and can be classified digitally, so land use can be mapped quickly, cheaply and again and again to show change.

The Reason gives the shortcomings that the satellite method overcame: a traditional field survey records land use at one moment only and needs much time, labour and money. Because satellite imagery solved exactly these problems, the Reason explains why it revolutionised the technique, and the other options are wrong.

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