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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2023, set 32/1/1 · 3 marks · Short answer

CBSE Class 10 Social Science 2023: question 27

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2023, paper 32/1/1, section C, question 27, for 3 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q27 · 3 marks · Short answerDevelopment

'The question of sustainability of development raises many fundamentally new issues about the nature and process of development.' Explain it with examples.

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2023 board paper, set 32/1/1.

Hints

Open one hint at a time and try again before the next.

Hint 1

What is needed for development to last?

Hint 2

Which resources cannot be replaced?

Hint 3

Whose needs must we protect?

Step-by-step solution

Each step shows the marks it earns, as an examiner would award them. Checked by an independent re-solve from the question paper.

  1. Conserving the environment is necessary for development. Sustainable development uses renewable resources such as groundwater, wind and solar energy.

    1 mark

  2. Earth has a fixed stock of non-renewable resources such as coal and petroleum, which cannot be replenished, so they must be conserved.

    1 mark

  3. Conservation is not nation-specific and our future depends on it, so development must not harm future generations.

    1 mark

Answer: Development must be sustainable: use renewables, conserve fixed resources, protect the future.

Where the marks are

  • Environment conservation and renewables with examples (1 mark)
  • Fixed stock of resources (1 mark)
  • Future sustenance, global issue (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

  • Chapter: Development (notes, formulas, where marks are lost and every past question)
Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from Development, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paper2023 board paper, set 32/1/1: every question, by section.

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