Economic Geography -(QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUIDE)

Description

Economic Geography – , By – Y.K. Sharma, ISBN Code – 978-93-86241-20-7

CONTENTS :

Chapters

SECTION—‘A’

1. Economic Geography 1 Introductory Concepts
2. Economic Geography : Methodology ofStudy and Relation

with other Subjects

3. Resource : Meaning, Definition and Classification Etc.
4. Nature and Resources
5. Man and Resources : Concepts Related with Resource

Utilization Conservation and Management  Etc.

6. Culture and Resources
7. Soil Resources : Conceptual Aspects
8. Soil Resources : Economic Planning of Soils, Soil Erosion.

Degradation, Environmental Pollution, Maintenance and

Conservation

9. Natural Vegetation : Conceptual Aspects of Forest Resources
10. Lumbering (Commercial Extraction of Timber), Production

and Trade of Timber and Timber Products : The World Context

11. Forest Resources : Concepts of Grasslands, Desert Vegetation,

Tundra Vegetation, Desertification, Deforestation and Need

and Measures for Conservation of Forest Resources

12. Water Resources : The Global and Indian Context
13. Marine (Oceanic Water) Resources
14. Mineral Resources : Basic Concepts and Methods of

Conservation

15. Metallic Minerals : Iron Ore and Ferro-Alloys-Manganese,

Chromium, Nickel, Tungsten, Antimony etc.

16. Non-Ferrous Metals 1 Copper, Aluminium, Bauxite, Zinc

and Lead

17. Economic Significance of Precious Metals : Gold, Silver

and Platinum and Mineral Chemicals : Mica, Sulphur,

Potash, Phosphate and Nitrates

18. Energy (Power) : The Key Resource of Economic

Development

19. Sources of Industrial Energy (Power) Resources : Coal
20. Economic Significance of Petroleum
21. The Energy Crisis and Natural Gas as an Energy Resource
22. Economic and Industrial Significance of Electricity : Hydro

and Tharmal Powers

23. Atomic Minerals and Nuclear Energy
24. Need for the Conservation of Energy Resources and

Benefits of Sustainable/Non-Exhaustible and

Renewable Energy Resources

25. Human Resource : The Most Vital Resource of Economic

Development

26. Major Economic Activities of Primary, Secondary, Tertiary

and Quaternary Nature

27. Hunting and Fishing
28. Animal Resources : The Concepts of Commercial Dairying

and  Meat

29. Agriculture 1 Conceptual, Land Use and Von Thunen’s

Location Theory

30. World Agricultural Regionalisation : Whittlesey’s

Classification of Agricultural Region

31. Subsistence Agriculture and Extensive Commercial

Grain Farming

32. Agricultural Production of Food Grains ; Wheat And Rice
33. Agricultural Production of Beverages : Tea, Coffee. Cocoa
34. Agricultural Industrial Crops : Cotton, Sugarcane,

Sugar-Beet and Rubber

35. Locational Factors and Theories of Location of Industries
36. Major Industrial Regions of the World : USA, Former USSR

and Japan

37. Manufacturing Industries : Conceptual and Iron and

Steel Industry

38. Ship Building Industry
39. Textile Industry
40. Chemical Industry
41. Fertilizer Industry
42. Pulp and Paper Industry
43. Transport : Conceptual and Modes (Means) of Transport
44. Railroad Transport : Emphasis on Trans-continental

Railways and Pipeline Transport

45. International Sea and Air Routes
46. Significance of Suez and Panama Canals in Intemational

Trade and Inland Waterways in National Trade

47. International Trade : Meaning Types, Theories and the

changing Pattern

48. Major Trade Organisations and Trade Blocks Their

Objectives and Relations

SECTION-‘ B’

Short Answer Questions

SECTION-‘C’

Objective Type Questions