Geography: 2019: CBSE: [All India]: Set –II

The main characteristic of professional workers is that they are highly skilled specialists and outnumber the actual production or blue collar workers.

High-tech industries which are regionally concentrated, self- sustained and highly specialised are called technopoles.

Migration due to earthquake belongs to ‘push’ factors.

The largest number of in-migrants is in Maharashtra.

‘Behavioural’ school of thought lays great emphasis on lived experiences and also on the perception of space by social categories based on ethnicity, race and religion.

Protective irrigation helps to protect the crops from adverse effects of soil moisture deficiency, while productive irrigation is meant to provide sufficient soil moisture in the cropping season to achieve high productivity.

Rural Roads are vital for providing links in rural areas between producers and consumers.

Hamleted settlements are frequently found in the middle and lower Ganga plain, Chhattisgarh and lower valleys of the Himalayas.

Dispersed settlements are found in Himachal Pradesh.

In co-operative farming, farmers form a co-operative society by pooling in their resources voluntarily for more efficient and profitable farming.