UPSC Mains Geography 2014 Questions with Model Answers
Every UPSC Mains Geography previous year question from 2014 with a detailed model answer, diagrams, flowcharts and structured answer writing.
Tropical cyclones are largely confined to South China Sea, Bay of Bengal and Gulf of Mexico. Why?
Account for the change in the spatial pattern of the Iron and Steel industry in the world.
Most of the unusual climatic happenings are explained as an outcome of the El-Nino effect. Do you agree?
How does India see its place in the economic space of rising natural resource rich Africa?
Why are the world's fold mountain systems located along the margins of continents? Bring out the association between the global distribution of Fold Mountains and the earthquakes and volcanoes.
Why did the Green Revolution in India virtually by-pass the eastern region despite fertile soil and good availability of water?
Whereas the British planters had developed tea gardens all along the Shivaliks and Lesser Himalayas from Assam to Himachal Pradesh, in effect they did not succeed beyond the Darjeeling area. Explain.
Critically evaluate the various resources of the oceans which can be harnessed to meet the resource crisis in the world.
Bring out the relationship between the shrinking Himalayan glaciers and the symp-toms of climate change in the Indian sub-continent.