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Note : This paper is of two hundred (200) marks containing four (4) sections. Candidates
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Complexity of geomorphic processes is more common than simplicity. Discuss.

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Discuss the origin and distribution of mid-latitude cyclones.

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This section contains three (3) questions of fifteen (15) marks each to be answered
in about three hundred (300) words.

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Contemporary metropolitan growth in India is facilitating spatial segregation and

social exclusion. Discuss.

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Distinguish between hazards and disasters and identify the major flood prone areas of
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Discuss the main characteristics of monsoon biomes.

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SECTION III

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Note : This section contains nine (9) questions of ten (10) marks, each to be answered in
about fifty (50) words.
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6.

Classify coasts giving suitable examples.

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Discuss sea port and its attributes.

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Define bio-diversity.

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Define threshold of an urban function.

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Differentiate between cyclone and anti-cyclone.

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Briefly explain the thrust of David Harveys Explanation in Geography.

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SECTION IV

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Note : This section contains five (5) questions of five (5) marks each based on the following
passage. Each question should be answered in about thirty (30) words.
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Read the following paragraph and answer the following questions :
There are three distinguishing features of post-modernist thought in geography :
First, space-time specificity in social explanation. This implies that post-modernist
thought in social science insists on the understanding of a world which is meaningful
for the people who live within it. Reflexiveness (implying focus on the role of the
human agents action upon himself or the identity between object and subject) is
intrinsic to post-modernist work in the social sciences but this does not imply
complete repudiation of the scientific principles of naturalism though the search for
universal theories is eschewed. Secondly, post-modernism insists on distancing itself
from the totalization (i.e., the concept of the society as a totality following a universal
process of historical change irrespective of space context). Post-modernist thought
holds that: The eble and flow of human history is not reduced to the marionette
movements of a single structural principle, whatever its location, and the differences
which make up human geographies are not explained by some central generating
mechanism. Thirdly, post-modern human geography represents a critique of spatial
science it is not a continuation of it but at the same time, it does not represent a
break with the past. Post-modern geography focuses on the essential spatiality of
social life (rather than the geometry of social behaviour.)

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What is the concept of post-modernism ?

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How does post-modern geography focus on spatiality of social life ?

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Explain the concept of space and time in social explanation.

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Why and how post-modernism is anti-totalization in geography ?

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