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India is the seventh largest… (Class 12 Biology 2023, Q21)

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BiologyCBSE Class 12 · Board exam 2023, set 57/1/1 · 2 marks · Very short answer

CBSE Class 12 Biology 2023: question 21

Set in the CBSE Class 12 board exam of 2023, paper 57/1/1, section B, question 21, for 2 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q21 · 2 marks · Very short answerBiodiversity and Conservation

India is the seventh largest country in the world in terms of total land area including land and water. Write the value of the land area of our country (in terms of percentage) of the world. Mention then, what makes India one of the 12 mega diversity countries of the world.

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2023 board paper, set 57/1/1.

Hints

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

Hint 1

The land-area figure is small, between 2 and 3 percent.

Hint 2

Compare it with India's share of the world's species, which is a little over 8 percent.

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. India has only about 2.4 percent of the world's land area.

    1 mark

  2. Yet India accounts for about 8.1 percent of global species diversity. This very high share of species diversity makes India one of the 12 mega diversity countries.

    1 mark

Answer: 2.4% of the world's land area; 8.1% share of global species diversity

Where the marks are

  • States 2.4% of world land area (1 mark)
  • States 8.1% share of global species diversity (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from Biodiversity and Conservation, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paper2023 board paper, set 57/1/1: every question, by section.

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