pyq/2018/geography-optional-ii/1

(a) On the outline map of India provided to you, mark the location of all of the following. Write in your QCA Booklet the significance of these locations, whether physical/commercial/economic/ecological/environmental/cultural, in not more than 30 words for each entry: (2x10=20 marks)

(i) Shyok River

(ii) Mawlynnong

(iii) Shravasti

(iv) Kori Creek

(v) Amarkantak

(vi) Ghatshila

(vii) Tawang

(viii) Neyyar

(ix) Dandeli

(x) Mulshi Lake

(b) Explain the unusual intensity of dust storms and thunder storms across India in the pre-monsoon period of year 2018. (10 marks)

(c) Why setting up of Water Management Boards is a controversial issue in India? (10 marks)

(d) Keeping the recent developments in view, how can the energy crisis of India be circumvented by harnessing non-conventional energy resources? (10 marks)