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EconomicsCBSE Class 12 · Sample paper, session 2025-26 · 1 mark · MCQ

CBSE Class 12 Economics sample paper 2025-26: question 24

From the official CBSE sample question paper for 2025-26, section B, question 24, for 1 mark. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q24 · 1 mark · MCQEnvironment and Sustainable Development

The population explosion and advent of Industrial Revolution led to the ____. (Choose the correct option to fill up the blank)

  1. (A)reversal of supply-demand relationship of environmental resources
  2. (B)decrease in demand for environmental resources
  3. (C)decrease in the average temperature of the earth’s lower atmosphere
  4. (D)increase in the environmental quality

Source: official sample paper from cbseacademic.nic.in (PDF). See it in the full Sample paper 2025-26.

Hints

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Hint 1

Did demand for resources rise or fall with industrialisation?

Hint 2

Which option describes a switch in the balance?

Step-by-step solution

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  1. Before industrialisation, the supply of environmental resources was greater than the demand for them.

  2. Population explosion and the Industrial Revolution raised demand beyond supply, causing a reversal of the supply-demand relationship of environmental resources. Option (A).

    1 mark

Answer: (A) reversal of supply-demand relationship of environmental resources

Where the marks are

  • Demand for environmental resources now exceeds supply (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from Environment and Sustainable Development, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paperSample paper 2025-26: every question, by section.

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