IGNOU BGGCT-132 December 2020 Previous Year Question Paper

Q1.Attempt any five of the following questions: 5x4=20

(i) What is spatial interaction ? How do complementarity, transferability and intervening opportunities impact spatial interaction ?

(ii) Differentiate between ‘hazard’ and ‘disaster’. Illustrate your answer through an example.

(iii) Make a distinction between ‘language’ and ‘dialect’. Ilustrate your answer through an example.

(iv) How is ‘Ethnicity’ different from ‘Race’ ?

Q2.Illustrate your answer through an example.

(v) Give at least four differences between a Progressive and a Regressive population pyramid.

(vi) What is Migration ? Differentiate between Immigration and Emigration.

(vii) Differentiate between Wet point and Dry point settlements. Illustrate your answer with an example.

(viii) What is ‘Ekistics’ ? List any three principles of a human settlement system, as proposed by Doxiadis.

Q3.Define Human Geography. Identify the phases of its development in the various periods. Further, list the characteristics of each of these phases.

Q4.Explain any three approaches to the study of human-environment relationships.

Q5.Explain the peopling process of India. How is it important for the understanding of territory and region formations ?

Q6.What is a Cultural Region ? Explain the characteristics of cultural trait, cultural area, and cultural complex.

Q7.Describe three physical and three socio-economic factors responsible for the uneven distribution of world population.

Q8.Explain the economic, social and environmental factors responsible for migration.

Q9.List three differences between rural and urban settlements. Describe settlements on the basis of size, forms and functions.

Q10.Explain theories of internal structure of cities given by Burgess, Hoyt and Harris and Ullman.

Q11.Answer any two of the following questions in about 600 words each : 2x10=20

(i) Write a note on time and space.

(ii) Discuss spatial distribution of Scheduled Tribes in India.

(iii) Discuss ‘Demographic Dividend’ with special reference to India.

(iv) Explain models related to morphology of rural settlements in India.