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