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CBSE Academic Class XII Geography Sample Question Paper 2015-16

Name of the Board : CBSE Academic
Class : XII STD
Subject : Geography
Year : 2015-2016

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Geography Sample Question Paper :

Time Allowed : 3 Hrs.
Maximum Marks : 70

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General Instructions:
I. There are 22 questions in all.
II. All questions are compulsory.
III. Marks for each question are indicated against it.
IV. Question numbers 01 to 07 are very short answer questions carrying 01 mark each. Answer to each of these questions should not exceed 40 words.
V. Question numbers 08 to 13 are short answer questions carrying 03 marks each. Out of which one question is a value based question. Answer to each of these Questions should not exceed 80-100 words.
VI. Question numbers 14 to 20 are long answer questions carrying 05 marks each. Answer to each of these questions should not exceed 150 words.
VII. Question number 21 and 22 are related to identification or locating and labelling of geographical features on maps carrying 5 marks each.
VIII. Outline maps of the World and India provided to you must be attached within your answer book.
IX. Use of templates or stencils for drawing outline maps is allowed.

1. How can you say that both push and pull factors give birth to migration? 1
2. What do you mean by behavioural school of thought? 1
3. Give two cause of growing trend of sub-urbanisation. 1
4. Name any two famous bauxite mines of India. 1
5. What is a digital divide? 1
6. What are white collar workers? 1
7. Name any one national waterway of India. 1
8. Study the following table and answer the questions that follow: 3×1=3
I.Name any two states with HDI value lower than 0.40.
II.What do you think how would thoughts of Dr. Mahbub-ul-Haq or Prof. Amartya Sen be helpful in raising the level of human development in these states of India?

For Visually Challenged Students Only :
1. Name any two states with low HDI values.
2. What do you think how would thoughts of Dr. Mahbub-ul- Haq or Prof. Amartya Sen be helpful in raising the level of human development in these states of India?

9. Study the diagram given below and answer the questions that follow- 3×1=3
(i) Name the transport line shown in the map.
(ii) Name two ocean/sea coasts which are being connected by this transport line.
(iii) Give any one point of significance of this transport line.

10. Study the diagram given below and answer the questions: 3×1=3
a) Identify the canal shown in the map.
b) Name the two water bodies joined by the canal.
c) What is the importance of this canal.

11. Study the map given below and answer the questions that follow : 3×1=3
i. Which economic activity is revealed in the shaded portion?
ii. What are the products of primary activity in these regions?
iii. Name any one region where it is best developed.

12. VALUE-BASED QUESTION
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: 1.5+1.5=3
“The design and use of building materials of houses vary from one ecological region to another.
The houses made up of mud, wood and thatch, remain susceptible to damage during heavy rains and floods, and require proper maintenance every year. Most house designs are typically deficient in proper ventilation.

(i) Justify the statement, “The problem is particularly serious where proper villagisation has not taken place and houses are scattered over a large area.”
(ii)Find out the values associated with it.

13. Study the following map and answer the questions that follow: 1+2=3
(i) Why do we have good quality river water near the mountains and poor quality in the lower plains?
(ii) What can be the role of each individual in controlling water pollution?

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