8. What is a population pyramid? Represent
9. Which are the areas of Dispersed
settlements in India? Medl
10. In India, where are oil refineries found along the coast?
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answer 1) The population pyramid represents the breakdown of the population by gender and age at a given point in time. It consists of two histograms, one for each gender (by convention, men on the left and women on the right) where the numbers are shown horizontally and the ages vertically.
answer 2) Rural settlements in India can broadly be put into four types: • Clustered, agglomerated or nucleated, • Semi-clustered or fragmented, • Hamleted, and • Dispersed or isolated. Sometimes settlement is fragmented into several units physically separated from each other bearing a common name.
answer 3) coastal oil refineries in India are: 1) Indian Oil Corporation Limited in Haldia, West Bengal. 2) Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Two in-land oil refineries in India are: 1) Bharat Oman Refineries Limited in Bina, Madhya Pradesh.
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