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W.B.C.S Main 2010 Optional Question Paper Geography.
W.B.C.S Main 2010 Optional Question Paper Geography – PAPER I
Group – A.Continue Reading W.B.C.S Main 2010 Optional Question Paper Commerce And Accountancy.
Answer any three questions
1. What is the lowest limit to which a river can erode ? How can a mature and graded river become rejuvenated ? Explain the origin of entrenched meanders giving examples. 5+10+5
2. What are the Chernozem soils ? Where are they best developed and why ? Describe the Chernozem soil profile mentioning the natural vegetation of this soil. 4+8+8
3. Discuss the origin and development of tropical cyclones. Discuss the meteorological conditions causing a severe cyclonic storm ‘Aila’ over the districts of South Bengal in May 2009 and impact of this storm on human life and property. 10+10
4. What is food chain ? How does it originate ? Identify four trophic levels of a food chain. Discuss the functional relationship between different trophic levels in an eco system. 2+3+5+10
5. Write short notes on any two of the following :
(a-) Weathering and soil profile.
(b) Sources of air pollution and Green House gases.
(c) Glacio-fluvial Deposits.
(d) Asthenosphere and Mohorovicic Discontinuity. 10+10
Group-B
Answer any two questions.
6. Specify the problems of industrialization in West Bengal in recent years. Discuss the impact of globalization on industrial profile of India. 10+10
7. Critically examine the Concept of Central Place Theory and comment on its applicability. 15+5
8. Give a brief account of the geographical distribution of petroleum resources of the world. Discuss in this connection the geo-political significance of the Middle East Oilfields. 10+10
9. Write short notes on any two of the following :
(a) Distinguish between ‘Possibilism’ and “Determinism.
(b) Why Humboldt is regarded as ‘Father of modern geography” ?
(c) Problems of agriculture in India.
(d) Define Behavioural Geography and Humanistic Geography. 10+10
W.B.C.S Main 2010 Optional Question Paper Geography – PAPER II
Group – A
Answer any three questions 18 x 3
1. Give a structural division of Asia and describe any two of them. Account for the origin of such regions.
2. State the main features of the climate of Japan. Account for the variability of the Japanese climate and state its effect on human activity.
3. State the effect of the plantation economy on the people of South-East Asia.
4. Mention the economic aspects of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands with special reference to their location.
5. Suggest suitable measures to contain, control the rising population of India.
6. “The agricultural scenario of India is greatly dependent on the taste of the Indian pepole.”—Comment.
Group-B
Answer any two questions. 15 x 2
7. Divide Russia into broad physiographic divisions and describe any one of them.
8. Trace the historical development of Britain’s cotton-textile industry with special reference to the contribution of India.
9. ‘The advent of the Second World War had an adverse effect on the industrial development of Germany.”—Comment.
10. The rise of the U.S.A. as a major world power in the present century is due to various factors-analyse them.
Group-—C
Answer any one question. 16
11. “The drainage of North America is interesting economically, physically and politically”— Comment.
12. What are the problems and prospects of the ‘U.S.A.’s iron and steel industry.
13. What part does the St. Lawrence Waterways play in the economy of Canada ?
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