Class 12 Geography – Daily Revision MCQ (English Medium)
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A town had a population of 40,000 and 920 live births in a year. What is its crude birth rate (CBR)?
Chapter 1: Population: Part - 1
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Answer: B. 23 per thousand
CBR = (live births ÷ total population) × 1000 = (920 ÷ 40,000) × 1000 = 23.A population pyramid whose base becomes narrower while the apex is broader (constrictive type) indicates:
Chapter 2: Population: Part - 2
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Answer: D. Low birth rate, low death rate and more elderly people
A constrictive pyramid has fewer young and more old people, showing low birth and death rates.Which of the following is a push factor of migration?
Chapter 2: Population: Part - 2
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Answer: A. Drought in the home region
Push factors drive people away from their place, e.g. drought, war, pollution, fewer jobs; the others are pull factors.Land that is left without cultivation for one agricultural year or less is classified as:
Chapter 3: Human Settlements and Land Use
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Answer: C. Current fallow
Current fallow is land rested for one year or less so that it recovers its fertility naturally.Near which country do the warm Kuroshio current and the cold Oyashio current meet, favouring large-scale fishing?
Chapter 4: Primary Economic Activities
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Answer: C. Japan
The meeting of warm and cold currents helps plankton grow; Kuroshio and Oyashio meet near Japan.The Ruhr industrial region of Western Europe is mainly located in which country?
Chapter 5: Secondary Economic Activities
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Answer: A. Germany
The textbook lists the Ruhr region (Germany) among the major industrial regions of Western Europe.Software developers and tax consultants, whose work is to think, research and develop ideas, belong to which type of economic activities?
Chapter 6: Tertiary Economic Activities
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Answer: D. Quaternary
Quaternary activities involve education, information, research and development; quinary is top-level decision-making.Which of these is a strategy given in the textbook to reduce regional imbalance in India?
Chapter 7: Region and Regional Development
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Answer: B. Decentralisation of industries
Decentralisation of industries spreads development to lagging regions and so reduces regional imbalance.Pedology is linked with which field of Physical Geography?
Chapter 8: Geography: Nature and Scope
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Answer: A. Geography of Soils
Pedology is the study of soils, so it is linked with the Geography of Soils.In correlation, what does a value of −1 represent?
Chapter 9: Practicals
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Answer: C. Perfect negative correlation
Correlation ranges from +1 (perfect positive) to −1 (perfect negative), with zero meaning no correlation.
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All questions are written by PadhaiNotes in our own words from the chapters of the official Maharashtra State Board Balbharati textbook (ebalbharati.in). Each question shows its chapter.