UPSC MainsGeography (Optional)38 questions

Geography: UPSC Mains Geography (Optional) questions

38 practice questions on Geography, each with a model answer, an approach note, key facts and links to the previous year questions on the same theme.

  1. 1Central Business District as Metropolitan Economic Core
  2. 2Challenges and Sustainable Integrated River Basin Management
  3. 3Comparative Assessment of Humboldt and Ritter
  4. 4Composition of Constant and Variable Atmospheric Gases
  5. 5Concept and Evolution of Environmental Determinism
  6. 6Concept of Areal Differentiation in Geography
  7. 7Concerns Features and Objectives of Radical Geography
  8. 8Core Foundations of Behavioural Geography
  9. 9Davis and Penck on Cycle of Erosion
  10. 10Demographic Attributes and Population Quality
  11. 11Determinism, Possibilism and Regional Concept
  12. 12Dualism in Geographical Thought
  13. 13Dualism in Physical versus Human Geography
  14. 14Earthquake Magnitude, Intensity, and Seismic Zonation
  15. 15Factors Governing Global Population Distribution
  16. 16Formation and Geomorphology of the Shiwalik Himalayas
  17. 17Formation of Sand Spits and Tombolos
  18. 18Functional Basis of Central Place Hierarchy
  19. 19Fundamental Concepts in Physical Geography and Biogeography
  20. 20Fundamental Principles of EIA and Environmental Management
  21. 21General Global Patterns of Precipitation
  22. 22Geological and Ecological Profile of Eastern Ghats
  23. 23Influence of Volcanism and Diastrophism on Landscape
  24. 24Inter-State Water Disputes in Southern India
  25. 25Neo-Determinism in Geographical Thought
  26. 26Neo-Environmentalism and the Ecomodernist Paradigm
  27. 27Ocean Temperature Patterns and Pacific Ocean Configuration
  28. 28Origin and Characteristics of Glaciated Landforms
  29. 29Paradigm Shifts in Twentieth-Century Geographic Thought
  30. 30Paraglacial Evolution and GLOF Mechanics in Himalayas
  31. 31Patterns of Human Ecological Adaptation
  32. 32Population, Resource Use and Development in Limits to Growth
  33. 33Quantitative Revolution and Model Building in Geography
  34. 34Radical and Welfare Approaches in Geographic Studies
  35. 35Radical Approach in Human Geography
  36. 36Relief Features of the Ocean Floor
  37. 37Rurban Growth for Balanced Regional Development
  38. 38Significance of Atmospheric Temperature Inversion