CBSE EXAMINATION PAPER-2024

Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Services occur at many different levels. Some are geared to industry, some to people, and some to both industry and people, e.g., the transport systems. Services, such as grocery shops and laundries are more common and widespread than high-order services or more specialized ones like those of accountants, consultants and physicians. Services are provided to individual consumers who can afford to pay for them. For example, the gardener, the launderers and the barber do primarily physical labour. Teachers, lawyers, physicians, musicians and others perform mental labour.

Many services have now been regulated. Making and maintaining highways and bridges, maintaining fire fighting departments and supplying or supervising education and customer care are among the important services most often supervised or performed by governments or companies. State and Union legislation have established corporations to supervise and control the marketing of such services as transport, telecommunication, energy and water supply. Professional services are primarily health care, engineering, law and management. The location of recreational and entertainment services depends on the market.

Study the given diagram carefully and answer the questions that follow:

On the given political outline map of the World (on page 21), seven geographical features have been marked as A, B, C, D, E, F and G. Identify any five with the help of the following information and write their correct names on the lines drawn near them :

On the given political outline map of the World (on page 21), seven geographical features have been marked as A, B, C, D, E, F and G.

Identify any five with the help of the following information and write their correct names on the lines drawn near them :

Answer any five questions out of the following :

(29.1) Name a major area of extensive commercial grain farming in Africa.

(29.2) Name the canal linking Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea.

(29.3) Name the major sea port located in western part of Australia. (29.4) Name the major airport of Japan.

(29.5) Name the major sea port of Brazil.

(29.6) Name the main area of subsistence gathering in Africa.

(29.7) Which is the major inland waterway in North America ?

On the given political outline map of India (on page 23), locate and label any five of the following seven geographical features with appropriate symbols :

On the given political outline map of India, locate and label any five of the following seven geographical features with appropriate symbols :

Which one of the following is able to purchase merchandise more economically, by contacting the manufacturers to produce the goods according to their specification?

Read the following objectives regarding National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (2015) carefully and choose the most appropriate option:

I. To improve the literacy rate of different age groups in India.

II. To provide umbrella framework to all skilling activities.

III. To align all skilling activities to common standards.

IV. To link skilling activities with demand centres.

Study the following statements carefully and choose the correct option:

Statement I : In India, after independence, some old towns around metropolitan cities developed as satellite towns.

Statement II : Delhi is a good example of such metropolitan cities.

Read the case study given below and answer Q.

Stages of Demographic Transition Theory

The first stage of demographic transition theory has high fertility and high mortality because people reproduce more to compensate for the deaths due to epidemics and variable food supply. The population growth is slow and most of the people are engaged in agriculture, where large families are an asset. Life expectancy is low, people are mostly illiterate and have low levels of technology. Two hundred years ago, all the countries of the world were in this stage.

Fertility remains high in the beginning of second stage but it declines with time. This is accompanied by reduced mortality rate. Improvements in sanitation and health conditions lead to decline in mortality. Because of this gap, the net addition to population is high.

In the last stage, both fertility and mortality decline considerably. The population is either stable or grows slowly. The population becomes urbanized, literate and has high technical know-how and deliberately controls the family size.

This shows that human beings are extremely flexible and are able to adjust their fertility.

In the present day, different countries are at different stages of demographic transition.

Choose the most appropriate option from the following regarding components of population change:

What is 'Balance of trade' ? Explain the characteristics of Balance of Trade.

"The dichotomy between physical and human is not a very valid one." Explain the statement with example.

How is the "Human Development Index" measured? Explain key areas of human development.