{"id":5591,"date":"2017-08-01T18:02:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=5591"},"modified":"2017-08-01T18:02:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:32:58","slug":"geography-optional-test-2-for-upsc-mains-2017-mains-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/geography-optional-test-2-for-upsc-mains-2017-mains-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography Optional Test 2 for UPSC Mains 2017 : Mains Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/mains-marathon-optional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archives<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Here is the\u00a0<strong>2nd Geography Mains Marathon Optional Test<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Geography Mains Marathon : Test-2<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Below are the questions<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018The nature of source region largely determines the temperature and humidity characteristics of an air mass\u2019- Explain<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are agro-climatic zones? Discuss the characteristics and problems of Trans-ganga Plains region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Outline and account for the characteristics of the contemporary urban hierarchy in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discuss with examples how climate is an important determinant of soil properties.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What causes aggradation of a stream? What are the effects of aggradation?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is social well-being? Critically discuss the welfare approach to geography.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do you understand by \u2018geopolitics\u2019? Compare and contrast frontiers and boundaries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Differentiate between site and situation of a settlement. With examples from India, discuss the role of site and situation in determining the location and growth of settlements.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Female labour force participation in urban India has stagnated despite rising education levels and rapid economic growth\u2019- Discuss.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discuss the issues and challenges pertaining to the interlinking of rivers in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p>All Mains Marathon Optional Questions are updated in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/mains-marathon-optional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>this page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives Here is the\u00a02nd Geography Mains Marathon Optional Test. Geography Mains Marathon : Test-2 Below are the questions: \u2018The nature of source region largely determines the temperature and humidity characteristics of an air mass\u2019- Explain What are agro-climatic zones? Discuss the characteristics and problems of Trans-ganga Plains region. Outline and account for the characteristics of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/geography-optional-test-2-for-upsc-mains-2017-mains-marathon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geography Optional Test 2 for UPSC Mains 2017 : Mains Marathon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":4480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geography","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/answer-writing-optional.jpg?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","views":{"total":265,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}