Download Holiday homework for class XII geography

ITL PUBLIC SCHOOL
Holiday Homework (2016-17)
Class – XII
Subject: Geography
Assignment. (Do the Answers in the note book)
Ch.5 Primary Activities.
Answer the following Questions (1 mark each) Answer to each of these questions should not exceed
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Name the oldest economic activities.
Name the country which was most successful in cooperative farming.
Name few of the plantation crops.
Name the type of cultivation that was mainly introduced by the Europeans in colonies.
Name the two important zones where gathering is mainly practiced.
What do you understand by transhumance?
Name few of the important countries where commercial livestock rearing is practiced.
What is truck farming?
Answer to each of the following questions should not exceed 80 words: (3 marks questions)
1. What is cooperative farming? Explain few of its advantages.
2. Dairy farming is the most advanced and efficient type of rearing of milch animal in the world
Analyse the statement with proper examples.
3. Large scale dairy farming is the result of developed transportation and refrigeration, Discuss.
(hint: Transportation enables to take milk and milk product to take from one place to another or for
over long distance. For exp. Amul and mother diary is transporting milk products to different parts
of the country. It requires good refrigeration method so that different milk products can be stored
and it has increased the duration of storage of various milk products. Sending these products over
long distance has become possible with developed means refrigeration and one of the vital factors
for the development of dairy farming.).
4. What type of farming is mainly practiced in Mediterranean regions? Mention few of its
characteristics.
Answer the following questions not exceeding 150 words. (5 marks questions)
1. Distinguish between Mixed farming and Dairy farming
2. Explain few of the special characteristics of collective farming.
3. What is subsistence Agriculture? Mention few of the important characteristics of Primitive
subsistence agriculture.
4. What is market gardening? How is it different from plantation agriculture?
5. Distinguish between Nomadic Herding and commercial livestock rearing.
6. Discuss the important features of hunting and gathering. Explain the important methods of mining
classified on the basis of mode of occurrence and the nature of ore.
7. Why is Market gardening developed near urban center?
8. Primitive subsistence agriculture is called by different names- justify.
9. Give few points of difference between subsistence agriculture and commercial agriculture.
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Explain the important characteristics of plantation agriculture.
Ch. 6 Secondary Activities:
Answer the following Questions (1 mark each) Answer to each of these questions should not exceed
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What do you understand by secondary activities?
What is the importance of Ruhr regions of Germany?
What are Foot Loose industries?
What is the main point of difference between the House hold industries and small scale
manufacturing?
5. Define the term manufacturing?
6. Name the mineral that is added to manufacture steel.
Answer to each of the following questions should not exceed 80 words: (3 marks questions)
1. Name the three subsectors of cotton textile industry. Who propagated “ khadi” as a part of the
independence movement. Mention the value behind it.
2. Distinguish between small scale industry and large scale industry.
3. Why is Iron and steel industry a basic industry and also a heavy industry?
4. What is the main reason for concentration of industries in western part of Europe and Eastern part
of North America?
5. Describe the features of traditional large scale industrial regions.
6. Why has technological innovation become essential in modern manufacturing industry? Explain by
giving any three points.
7. How do secondary activities add value to natural resources?
8. Give the meaning of high-tech industry. State any two characteristics of this industry.
9. Discuss few of the important characteristics of Foot loose industries.
Answer to these questions should not exceed 150 words. (5 marks questions)
1. Discuss few of the important features of Ruhr coal field of Germany.
2. Explain any five factors that determine the location of the industries.
3. Explain the characteristics of modern large scale industries.
4. Describe the distribution pattern of Iron and steel industries in the world.
5. Classify the industries on the basis of raw material used.
6. Write a note on Textile industries.
Chapter-7
Tertiary and Quaternary Activities
Answer the following Questions (1 mark each) Answer to each of these questions should not exceed
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What are ‘Trading Centers’?
What is meant by ‘Trade’?
What are ‘Tertiary activities’?
Define the term ‘Quaternary activities’?
What are ‘Retail trading services’?
Why are all forms of transport called or referred as ‘Line of communication’?
What do you mean by ‘KPO’?
What do you mean by the term ‘Outsourcing’?
9. What is ‘Mass Media’?
10. What is ‘Medical Tourism’?
11. What are ‘Isochorne Lines’?
Answer to each of the following questions should not exceed 80 words: (3 marks questions)
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Explain any three characteristics of tertiary activities?
Explain the factors which effect tourism globally?
What is ‘Digital Divide’?
How is transport distance measured?
What is the determining factor for selecting the mode of transport?
What is the difference between rural and urban marketing centres?
Which are the services supervised or performed by the government or companies?
What do you understand by ‘Low order services’ and ‘High order services’? How are they different
from ‘Personal Services’?
9. Define ‘Tourism’? How does tourism foster the economy of the local people?
10. Name three important tourist regions of the world. Why are they so important?
Answer the following question not exceeding 150 words: (5 mark questions)
11. Describe different types of services.
12. What are the important characteristics of a region that attracts tourists from all over the world?
13. Describe the role of medical services for overseas patients in India.
14. Discuss the importance of telecommunication in the modern age.
15. What are quinary activities? Describe its features and importance. (hint: see in the box.pg.62)
16. Explain the characteristics of a region that attract tourists all over the world..
17. Define trade? Differentiate between retail trading and wholesale trading.
Ch 8 Transport and Communication
Answer the following Questions (1 mark each) Answer to each of these questions should not exceed
40 words.
1. What is Transport?
2. Name the different kind of transport.
3. What is the main use of Pipe line?
4. What is the total length of the motorable road in the world?
5. Name the countries which will be connected by Pan American High way.
6. Name the two terminal stations connected by Trans-Siberian Railways.
7. Name the terminal cities connected by Trans Canadian Railways?
8. Name the terminal cities connected by The Australian Transcontinental Railways.
9. Name the proposed longest pipeline in the world.
10. Name the two terminal ports of Suez Canal.
11. Name the country that has highest road density in the world.
12. Name the terminal stations of the longest railway route in the world.
13. Name the two terminal stations of Orient express Railway.
14. Mention one of the most important advantage of Water Transport..
15. When was Suez Canal constructed? Which seas have been connected by it?
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Why are air transport mainly developed in industrialized countries.
“ In a well-managed transport system ,land ,water and air transport
Give few points of difference between metalled roads and the unmetalled roads.
Which pack animals are used in different parts of the world?
What are border roads? Mention few of its advantages.
In developed countries good quality roads are mostly prevalent. Do you agree? Justify your
opinion?
7. Explain few of the characteristics of Railways of North America.
8. Mention any six characteristics of Panama Canal.
9. Mention few of the characteristics of the Suez Canal.
Answer the following questions (Answers of these questions should not exceed 150 words.) 5 marks
1. What are Highways? Explain the significance of highways by citing the example from different
continents.
2. Name the busiest sea route in the world. Mention any four characteristics of this sea route.
3. Why river Rhine the world’s most heavily is used water ways? Explain by giving few suitable
points.
4. Discuss few of the merits and demerits of road transport in the world.
5. Explain any five advantages of water transport in the world. (hints: give the points from water
transport and sea routes.)
6. Describe any five important sea routes.
7. State any three characteristics of water transport? Why is traffic far less on the Cape Of Good Hope
Route? Give suitable example.
8. Discuss few of the important features of Air transport.
9. Mention few of the characteristics of the pipeline as a mode of transport.
10. Name the largest Trans -continental railway in the world? Mention any four characteristics of that
trans- continental railway line.