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Page-12 of GS-I: World Geography

Elucidate the difference between tropical and temperate forest while keeping in focus their natural resources.

Trees in the tropical and tem­perate forests differ from each other in terms of size and the nature of wood. In terms of natural resources, we can observe...

February 1, 2023

Explain the spatial pattern of the Tin around the world.

Tin is one of those important metals that are used for making alloys. It is a rather scarce metal in its world distribution. North America and Europe are...

January 31, 2023

Examine the location distribution and factors responsible for such distribution of Engineering Goods industry around the world.

Engineering Goods industries are highly skill-oriented and they use the product of the metallurgical indus­tries as the raw materials. In fact several of the engineering industries use the...

January 31, 2023

Account for the spatial pattern of the Aluminum ore in the World.

Metal aluminum is obtained from bauxite. Bauxite is first converted into alumina and alumina is further processed to obtain the final metal. Due to its lightness and durability,...

January 26, 2023

Examine the factors responsible for the location of Jute industry around the World.

Jute fibre is one of the cheapest and coarsest, and its main use is as a packaging material for agricultural and industrial products.  Important products of jute are...

January 25, 2023

Discuss the locational aspects of Natural Gas production around the World. 

Natural gas occurs along with oil in the oil fields as well as separately in the gas fields. Natural gas came to be used at large scale only...

January 24, 2023

Account for the spatial pattern of the Copper ore in the World. 

In importance from an industrial point of view copper is next only to iron. However, it occurs in fewer locations than iron ore and the most important deposits...

January 22, 2023

Give an account of the major coal mining regions around the world.

Major coal mining reasons are as follows: China China has large reserves of coal and during the last decades it has emerged as the world leader in coal...

January 20, 2023

Explain the concept of Geographical Inertia with respect to location of Industries.

It is usually found that it is cheaper to modernise a manufactur­ing unit or to convert it to another kind of unit rather than to move it to...

January 17, 2023

What do you understand by Blood Diamonds? Critically examine the performance of Kimberley Process in limiting the number of conflict diamonds entering the market.

Some regions in Africa are rich in Diamonds. The Central African and West African countries are politically unstable where armed revolutionary group control diamond mines. They sell the...

January 16, 2023

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