“There is an urgent need to conserve our mineral resources.” Explain the values needed to achieve this goal.
What is the meaning of density of population? Describe the four geographical factors that influence the distribution of population in the world.
How are rural settlements facing different types of problems in the developing countries ? Explain any five major problems.
What is transport? How do the factors of demand and routes affect the transport services throughout the world ? Explain with examples.
How has the ‘New Industrial Policy’ been able to maintain a sustainable growth in productivity and gainful employment? Explain.
How is the high technology industry latest generation in manufacturing activities? Explain with examples.
High technology, or simply high-tech, is the latest generation of manufacturing activities.
(i) It is best understood as the application of intensive research and development (R &D) efforts leading to the manufacture of products of an advanced scientific and engineering character.
(ii) Robotics on the assembly line, computer-aided design (CAD) and manufacturing, electronic controls of smelting and refining processes, and the constant development of new chemical and pharmaceutical products are notable examples of a high-tech industry.
(iii) Neatly spaced, low, modern, dispersed, office-plant-lab buildings rather than massive assembly structures, factories and storage areas mark the high-tech industrial landscape.
(iv) High-tech industries which are regionally concentrated, self-sustained and highly specialised are called technopolies.
(v) The Silicon Valley near San Francisco and Silicon Forest near Seattle are examples of technopolies.
In the given political outline map of the world, five features A, B, C, D and E are marked. Identify these features with the help of the following information and write their correct names on its lines drawn near them :
(A) The country having the lowest population growth rate.
(B) The area of nomadic herding.
(C) The terminal station of trans-continental railway
(D) Mega City
(E) Sea Port