UGC NET 2012 JUNE Paper-II and III Geography Previous Year Paper with Answers
NTA NET SEPTEMBER ,2020 ক্র্যাকিংয়ের জন্য, বিভিন্ন বিষয়ে পরীক্ষার্থী, তারা আবেদন করছে তার জন্য বিগত বছরের প্রশ্নপত্র গুলি অনুশীলন করতে হবে। এটি নির্ভুলতার সাথে সর্বনিম্ন সময়ে সর্বাধিক প্রশ্নের সঠিক চেষ্টা করার তাদের গতি উন্নত করতে সহায়তা করবে। সুতরাং, এই নিবন্ধে আমরা ইউজিসি নেট JUNE 2012 পেপার -2 ও 3 পোস্ট করা হচ্ছে ।
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Here is the questions and official answers
1. The normal cycle of erosion is associated with
(A) Marine Erosion
(B) Wind Erosion
(C) River Erosion
(D) Glacial Erosion
Answer: (C)
2. Which among the following is one of the forces responsible for continental drift according to Wegner?
(A) Tidal force
(B) Convection currents
(C) Tensional force
(D) Compressional force
Answer: (A)
3. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
List – I List – II
I. Kettle 1. Small mountain lake occupying a cirque
II. Tarn 2. Low winding glacio – Alluvial ridge
III. Esker 3. Oval or elliptical hill of glacial till
IV. Drumlin 4. Deep depression usually situated along the moraine belt
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 3 4 2 1
Answer: (C)
4. Most of the details of world’s topography belongs to the
(A) Pre-cambrian era
(B) Paleozoic era
(C) Mesozoic era
(D) Cenozoic era
Answer: (D)
5. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
List – I (Rivers) List – II (Tributaries)www.netugc.com
a. Krishna 1. Chambal
b. Brahmaputra 2. Indravati
c. Godavari 3. Tista
d. Yamuna 4. Bhima
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 3 4 1 2
(C) 4 3 1 2
(D) 3 4 2 1
Answer: (A)
6. Air movement in the troposphere is caused by
(A) Solar wind
(B) Convective current
(C) Gravitational force
(D) Air pressure
Answer: (B)
7. The unit of air pressure measurement is
(A) Degree
(B) Isobars
(C) Metres per second
(D) Hecta Pascal
Answer: (D)
8. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
List – I List – II
I. Ferrel cell 1. Doldrums
II. Hadley cell 2. Easterlies
III. Polar cell 3. Westerlies
IV. Intertropical convergence zone 4. Trade winds
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 1 4 3 2
(C) 3 4 2 1
(D) 2 3 4 1
Answer: (C)
9. Which one of the following is not a mechanism of energy transfer?
(A) Conduction
(B) Advection
(C) Radiation
(D) Ablation
Answer: (D)
10. Given below are the two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Stable air resists vertical movement and unstable air ascends freely because of its own buoyancy.
Reason (R): When stable air is forced aloft the clouds that form are widespread and have little vertical thickness.
In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct?
(A) (A) is correct but (R) is wrong.
(B) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.www.netugc.com
Answer (C)
11. The cold current flowing along the coast of Chile and Peru is known as
(A) Agulhas
(B) EL-Nino
(C) Humbolt
(D) Canary
Answer: (C)
12. The average difference in the water level between high tide and low tide at a place is referred to as:
(A) Tidal bore
(B) Tidal period
(C) Tidal range
(D) Tidal wave
Answer: (C)
13. Domestication of plants and animals was started in
(A) Paleolithic period
(B) Mesolithic period
(C) Neolithic period
(D) Pre-paleolithic period
Answer: (C)
14. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(A) Autotrophs : Take energy from inorganic sources and fix it into energy rich organic compound
(B) Heterotrophs : Obtain their energy from living organism
(C) Herbivores : Organisms that consume plants and animals
(D) Detrivores : Obtain their energy from dead organism
Answer: (C)
15. Flat topped sea mounts are known as
(A) Shoals
(B) Reefs
(C) Guyots
(D) Banks
Answer: (C)
16. Which one of the following pairs does not match correctly?
(A) P. Haggett : Geography : A modern synthesis
(B) P. E. James : All possible worlds
(C) G. P. Marsh : Explanation in Geography
(D) Abler, Adams & Gould : Spatial organization
Answer: (C)
17. Which one of the following statements is not correct?
(A) The concept of areal differentiation is related with ideographic approach.
(B) The concept of areal differentiation is related with nomothetic approach.
(C) The exponent of the concept of areal differentiation was Richard Hartshorne.
(D) The concept of areal differentiation is related with chorology.
Answer: (B)
18. ‘The same environment carries different meanings to people with different ways of living and culture’. This statement is related with the concept of
(A) Determinism
(B) Stop – and – go determinism
(C) Probabilism
(D) Possibilism
Answer: (D)
19. Who among the following emphasized on the behavioural environment in Geography?
(A) Burton
(B) Gregory
(C) Kirk
(D) Johnston
Answer: (C)
20. Who defined Geography as human ecology?
(A) Schaefer
(B) Hartshorne
(C) Richthofen
(D) Barrows
Answer(D)
21. Which one of the following metropolitan cities has registered the largest population in 2011 census?
(A) Chennai
(B) Delhi
(C) Kolkata
(D) Mumbai
Answer: (B)
22. Which of the following States in India is passing through the stage of Demographic Transition which entails low fertility and low mortality?
(A) Assam
(B) Haryana
(C) Punjab
(D) Tamilnadu
Answer: (D)
23. Which one of the following is the important factor in Rural out – migration in India?
(A) Agricultural inefficiency
(B) Population growth
(C) Lack of Basic services in rural areas
(D) Unemployment
Answer: (D)
24. The ‘Range of a Good’ refers to
(A) The maximum distance which people have to travel to purchase a good or service.
(B) The variety of goods available at a market place.
(C) The maximum demand to make the service or good viable.
(D) The maximum population necessary for survival of a function.
Answer: (A)
25. The ‘Administrative Principle’ in Christaller’s ‘Central Place Theory’ refers to
(A) K = 3
(B) K = 4
(C) K = 7
(D) K = 9
Answer: (C)
26. Which one of the following may be categorised as footloose industry?
(A) Cement
(B) Ship building
(C) Electronic components
(D) Cotton textile
Answer: (C)
27. Gross Cultivated Area divided by Net Sown Area is known as
(A) Agricultural efficiency
(B) Crop diversification
(C) Crop concentration
(D) Crop intensity
Answer: (D)
28. The theory of least cost location was proposed by
(A) Losch
(B) Isard
(C) Dicey
(D) Weber
Answer: (D)
29. The intensive cultivation of vegetables, fruits and flowers in the periphery of cities in USA is called
(A) Truck farming
(B) Factory farming
(C) Market gardening
(D) Agri – farming
Answer: (A)
30. Why are steel mills within Japan drawn to coastal locations?
(A) Nearness to iron ore reserves
(B) Nearness to local markets
(C) Availability of cheap labour
(D) To minimise transportation cost for imported raw materials and steel exports
Answer: (D)
31. Which one of the following criteria is not used for the classification of human races?
(A) Eye
(B) Nose
(C) Ear
(D) Hair
Answer: (C)
32. Match the following tribes and their habitats:
a. Khirgiz 1. Central Asia
b. Yakuts 2. Siberia
c. Lapps 3. Scandinavia
d. Eskimos 4. Canada
Codes:
(A) a – 1, b – 3, c – 2, d – 4
(B) a – 4, b –2, c – 3, d – 1
(C) a – 2, b –1, c – 3, d – 4
(D) a – 1, b – 2, c – 3, d – 4
Answer: (D)
33. Which of the following statements is not true about a State?
(A) It has a territorial base.
(B) It always has a social or cultural base.
(C) It claims internal sovereignty.
(D) It claims sovereignty in external relations.
Answer: (B)
34. Which of the following languages does not belong to the Dravidian family?
(A) Sinhalese
(B) Brahui
(C) Kannada
(D) Malayalam
Answer: (A)
35. The habitat of the Toda tribe is
(A) Aravalli range
(B) Siwalik range
(C) Kaimur range
(D) Nilgiri hills
Answer: (D)
36. Which one of the following indicators is most commonly used to measure the economic development of a country?
(A) Infant mortality rate
(B) Availability of potable water
(C) Female literacy
(D) Gross National Product per capita
Answer: (D)
37. Which of the following matches is not correct?
(A) Myrdal : Cumulative causation model
(B) Friedmann : Core– periphery model
(C) Boudville : Transport model
(D) Frank : Dependency model
Answer: (C)
38. Who among the following formalized the concept that there exists relationship between the spatial organisation and national development?
(A) Luten
(B) Dickens
(C) Kuklinski
(D) Friedmann
Answer: (D)
39. Which of the following sequences of the stages of economic growth according to Rostow’s model is correct?
(A) Traditional society, drive to maturity, take off, high mass consumption
(B) Traditional society, take off, drive to maturity, high mass consumption
(C) Traditional society, take off, high mass consumption, drive to maturity
(D) Traditional society, drive to maturity, high mass consumption, take off
Answer: (B)
40. Which one of the following is a ‘Formal’ Region?
(A) Delhi metropolitan region
(B) Hyderabad – Secunderabad region
(C) Delhi – Jaipur – Agra Triangle
(D) Assam – Valley
Answer: (D)
41. Between 2001 and 2011, the sex-ratio (Females per thousand males) has
(A) increased by 5 to 10
(B) decreased by 5 to 10
(C) remained constant
(D) increased by less than 5
Answer: (A)
42. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
List – I (Mineral) List – II (Mines)
a. Copper 1. Kudremukh
b. Iron ore 2. Balaghat
c. Manganese 3. Kodarma
d. Mica 4. Khetri
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 1 2 4 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 1 3 2
(D) 4 1 2 3
Answer: (D)
43. In India, mangrove is the most important tree of
(A) Tropical moist deciduous forests
(B) Tidal forests
(C) Tropical dry deciduous forests
(D) Sub–tropical moist forests
Answer: (B)
44. Which one of the following does not match correctly?
(A) Vishakhapatnam - Ship building
(B) Titlagarh – Railway equipment
(C) Bhadravati - Iron & Steel
(D) Pinjore – Machine Tools
Answer: (B)
45. In which of the following Decades, India experienced highest percentage of decadal growth?
(A) 1951-61
(B) 1961-71
(C) 1971-81
(D) 1981-91
Answer: (C)
46. Which one of the following is most appropriate for showing frequency distribution?
(A) Bar graph
(B) Histogram
(C) Pie diagram
(D) Line graph
Answer: (B)
47. Which one of the following is commonly used for computing the average value of river discharge?
(A) Arithmetic mean
(B) Geometric mean
(C) Harmonic mean
(D) Weighted mean
Answer: (B)
48. Which one of the following Rn values shows the random pattern of point distribution?
(A) 0
(B) 1.0
(C) 1.35
(D) 2.14
Answer: (B)
49. Which one of the following sampling techniques is most suitable for selection of representative villages of an area with diversified geographical features?www.netugc.com
(A) Systematic
(B) Stratified – random
(C) Random
(D) Clustered
Answer: (B)
50. In which one of the following methods interpolation is used?
(A) Choroschematic
(B) Chorochromatic
(C) Isopleth
(D) Choropleth
Answer: (C)
1. The valleys which drain in the same direction as the original consequent drainage but at the lower topographic levels and have developed with respect to new base levels are known as
(A) Resequent
(B) Obsequent
(C) Insequent
(D) Subsequent
Answer: (A)
2. The concept of ‘base level erosion’ was proposed by
(A) Davis
(B) Malott
(C) Johnson
(D) Powell
Answer: (D)
3. Given below are the two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): The velocity of moving ice increases with steepness of slope of the area and thickness of glacial ice.
Reason (R): The velocity decreases to the sides owing to lesser depth of ice and friction against the valley walls and the bottom floor.
In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: (B)
4. The normal cycle of erosion is associated with
(A) Marine erosion
(B) Wind erosion
(C) River erosion
(D) Glacial erosion
Answer: (C)
5. Which of the following groups of scholars stressed the role of lateral erosion by streams in the formation of pediments?
(A) Mc. Gee, Paige, Blackwelder
(B) Mc Gee, Blackwelder, Johnson
(C) Paige, Blackwelder, Johnson
(D) Paige, Johnson, Lawson
Answer: (C)
6. Which of the following is not a topographic evidence of rejuvenation in landscape?
(A) Incised meanders
(B) Structural benches
(C) Paired valley terraces
(D) Multi-cyclic valley
Answer: (B)
7. Match list-I with list-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
(a) Loess (i) river deposit
(b) Moraines (ii) glacial deposit
(c) Gravels (iii) wind deposit
(d) Silt (iv) marine deposit
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
(B) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
(C) (iv) (i) (iii) (ii)
(D) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
Answer: (B)
8. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Ozone hole is observed only over Antartica.
Reason (R): Ozone depleting gases are present throughout the stratosphere.
In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(B) (A) is true and (R) is wrong.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
(D) (A) is wrong, but (R) is true.
Answer: (D)
9. Which of the following types of clouds appears at the highest level in the sky?
(A) Alto – cumulus
(B) Cirro-cumulus
(C) Cumulo-nimbus
(D) Strato-cumulus
Answer: (B)
10. Atmospheric temperature decreases with height in the troposphere because
(A) Air at higher altitude is less dense
(B) Solar radiation is less at higher level
(C) There are more atmospheric gases at higher altitudes
(D) The atmosphere is heated by radiation from the surface
Answer: (D)
11. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(A) Foehn : Warm dry winds moving down the Alps
(B) Mistral : Cold wind blowing from Alps over France
(C) Santa Ana : Warm dry wind moving down Appalachian
(D) Bora : Cold winds experienced along the eastern coast of the Adriatic sea
Answer: (C)
12. Which one of the following gases is not a natural element of the atmosphere?
(A) Krepton
(B) Argon
(C) Chloroflurocarbon
(D) Water vapour
Answer: (C)
13. In Koppen’s classification of climate, the symbol Aw refers to
(A) Tropical Savanna climate
(B) Monsoon climate
(C) Tropical Rainforest climate
(D) Steppe climate
Answer: (A)
14. The strongest winds in a hurricane are found in
(A) the eye of the hurricane
(B) the spiral bands of thunderstorm
(C) the eye wall of the hurricane
(D) the easterly waves
Answer: (C)
15. Which one of the following characterizes paternoster lake?www.netugc.com
(A) A lake of volcanic origin
(B) A shallow stretch of water separated from the sea
(C) A crescent shaped lake formed due to cut-off of a river meander
(D) Lake formed on glacial stairways
Answer: (D)
16. Thornthwaite’s modified climatic classification is based on the concept of:
(A) Effective temperature
(B) Precipitation index
(C) Potential evapotranspiration
(D) Potential precipitation
Answer: (C)
17. Selva forests are
(A) Broad leaf evergreen forests
(B) Broad leaf deciduous forests
(C) Coniferous evergreen forests
(D) Coniferous deciduous forests
Answer: (A)
18. The specific place of an organism in an ecosystem is called as:
(A) Niche
(B) Autotroph
(C) Trophic level
(D) Food Pyramid
Answer: (A)
19. Which of the following is referred to as producer in marine ecosystem?
(A) Small fish
(B) Fungi
(C) Zooplanktons
(D) Phytoplankton
Answer: (D)
20. Saline soils are the results of
(A) very high precipitation and leaching of the soil
(B) high rate of evaporation and very little leaching of the soil.
(C) high precipitation and very little leaching of the soil
(D) all the above
Answer: (B)
21. “There is no holiday for vegetation – growth is rapid, uninterrupted and continuous.” This statement applies to
(A) Taiga region
(B) Monsoon region
(C) Mediterranean region
(D) Rainy tropics
Answer: (D)
22. The largest variety of plants and animals is found in the
(A) Temperate forests
(B) Monsoon forests
(C) Tropical forests
(D) Tropical grassland
Answer: (C)
23. Which one of the following statements about salinity is not correct?
(A) Salinity is directly related to precipitation
(B) There exists a direct relationship between the rate of evaporation and salinity
(C) Low salinity is found near the mouth of a river
(D) The salinity is highest at the tropics and decreases towards poles and equator
Answer: (A)
24. The origin of the ocean currents is related to
(A) Gravitational force
(B) Winds
(C) Salinity and density
(D) All of the above
Answer: (D)
25. Schaefer was in favour of:
(A) Exceptionalism
(B) Idiography
(C) Areal differentiation
(D) Scientific generalization
Answer: (D)
26. Which of the following principles does not belong to logical positivism?
(A) Principle of causation
(B) Structuralism
(C) Behaviourism
(D) Functionalism
Answer: (C)
27. Which of the following matches is not correct?
Author Book
(A) William Bunge Theoretical Geography
(B) David Harvey Social Well being: A Spatial Perspective
(C) David Smith Human Geography: A Welfare Approach
(D) R. Peet Modern Geographical Thought
Answer: (B)
28. The statement that “Egypt is the gift of the river Nile” is attributed to
(A) Aristotle
(B) Herodotus
(C) Strabo
(D) Seneca
Answer: (B)
29. Who among the following pleaded that history be treated geographically and geography be treated historically ?
(A) Homer
(B) Thales
(C) Hecataeus
(D) Herodotus
Answer: (D)
30. Who among the following Arab scholars made corrections to Ptolemy’s book?
(A) Al-Masudi
(B) Al-Idrisi
(C) Ibn-Khaldun
(D) Ibn-Batuta
Answer: (B)
31. Which one of the following is the philosophical basis of quantitative revolution?
(A) Existentialism
(B) Idealism
(C) Phenomenology
(D) Positivism
Answer: (D)
32. The concept of paradigm was propounded by
(A) Kant
(B) Peet
(C) Kuhn
(D) Haggett
Answer: (C)
33. Who among the following wanted to develop ‘Universal Science’ encompassing all aspects of knowledge?
(A) Humboldt
(B) Ritter
(C) Recluse
(D) Guyot
Answer: (A)
34. Who among the following geographers, focussed on man centered geography?
(A) W. H. Davis
(B) Jefferson
(C) Semple
(D) Huntington
Answer: (B)
35. Who, among the following, developed the concept of mental map?
(A) Downs and Stea
(B) Gould and White
(C) Saarinen
(D) Boulding and Hagerstrand
Answer: (B)
36. Who among the following first initiated the concept of Second Demographic Transition?
(A) Van de Kaa
(B) Lesthaeghe
(C) Coleman
(D) Fitzgerald
Answer: (A)
37. The Age-Specific Fertility Rate is maximum in the age-group of
(A) 20-24 years
(B) 25-29 years
(C) 30-34 years
(D) 35-39 years
Answer: (A)
38. Which one of the following reasons dominates in Rural to Urban migration in India?
(A) Marriage
(B) Education
(C) Family movement
(D) Employment
Answer: (D)
39. Who argued that multiple centres of nuclei were responsible for urban growth?
(A) Harris and Ullman
(B) Hoyt
(C) Park and Burgess
(D) Nelson
Answer: (A)
40. The largest and most dominating city in a State with respect to commercial, industrial, educational and political activities refers to:
(A) City Region
(B) Urbanfield
(C) Primate city
(D) Neckropolis
Answer: (C)
41. Which one of the following sequences of land use in Burgess model is correct?
(A) Central Business District, zone of workers’ home, commuters’ zone, zone of better residences
(B) Central Business District, zone of better residences, zone of workers’ home, commuters’ zone
(C) Central Business District, zone of workers’ home, zone of better residences, commuters’ zone
(D) Central Business District, zone of better residences, commuters’ zone, zone of workers’ home
Answer: (C)
42. If a circle with 1 cm radius represents one lac population, what will be the radius of the circle representing 4 lac population?
(A) 1 cm
(B) 2 cm
(C) 4 cm
(D) 16 cm
Answer: (B)
Answer: (B)
44. The essential feature of shifting cultivation iswww.netugc.com
(A) Intensity of crops
(B) Rotation of fields
(C) Single cropping
(D) Double cropping
Answer: (B)
45. The footloose industries are those for whom:
(A) Transportation costs are relatively unimportant
(B) Transport costs are very important
(C) Presence of raw material in the neighbourhood is necessary
(D) All of the above are necessary
Answer: (A)
46. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using codes given below:
List – I List – II
(a) Malaysia (1) Coffee
(b) Brazil (2) Sugar
(c) Cuba (3) Pineapple
(d) Hawai (4) Rubber
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (2) (3) (4) (1)
(B) (1) (2) (3) (4)
(C) (4) (1) (3) (2)
(D) (4) (3) (2) (1)
Answer: (A)
47. The three iron and steel plants at Kulti, Burnpur and Hirapur have been merged together as:
(A) Tata Iron and Steel Company
(B) Indian Iron and Steel Company
(C) Bengal Iron Works
(D) Mysore Iron Works
Answer: (B)
48. The rice producing areas are associated with
(A) Low density of population
(B) Moderate density of population
(C) High density of population
(D) None of the above
Answer: (C)
49. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
List – I Stage of Urbanisation List – II Explanation
(a) Urbanisation (i) Certain settlements grow at the cost of surrounding
countryside
(b) Suburbanisation (ii) The commuter belt grows at the cost the urban core
(c) Disurbanisation (iii) The rate of population loss of the core tapers off or the core starts regaining population
(d) Reurbanisation (iv) The population loss of the urban core exceeds the
Population gain of the commuter belt
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
(C) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(D) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
Answer: (B)
50. Which of the following statements about the consequences of migration is correct?
(A) The population – resource relationship of the two areas involved in the process of migration gets modified significantly as a result of migration.
(B) The people who migrate from the rural areas to the urban industrial areas suffer from the lack of open space, fresh air and good housing.
(C) The dietary habits of emigrants also changes in new areas
(D) all of the above
Answer: (D)
51. The informal sector of economy refers to
(A) Capitalist mode of economy
(B) Bazaar type of economy
(C) Dynamic and stable income
(D) Permanent and productive establishment
Answer: (B)
52. Which one of the following is not related with informal sector of economy?
(A) Market type of economy
(B) Unskilled/semiskilled labour force
(C) Temporary & unstable income
(D) Capitalist mode of economy
Answer: (D)
53. The law of primacy in the context of urban development is most relevant to the countries which have:
(A) A relatively simple economy and spatial structure
(B) Complex economy
(C) Integrated spatial structure
(D) Matured economy
Answer: (A)
54. The main occupation of the Gonds is
(A) Food gathering
(B) Forestry
(C) Hunting
(D) Cultivation
Answer: (D)
55. Which one of the following is largest in areal extent?
(A) Cultural realm
(B) Cultural region
(C) Cultural landscape
(D) Cultural point
Answer: (A)
56. What among the following is the correct sequence of the three stages through which a new boundary under most conditions is determined?
(A) Delimitation, demarcation, allocation
(B) Allocation, delimitation, demarcation
(C) Demarcation, delimitation, allocation
(D) Allocation, demarcation, delimitation
Answer: (A)
57. Which one of the following is not usually considered an indicator of social well being?
(A) Infant mortality
(B) Female literacy
(C) Availability of potable water
(D) Crime
Answer: (D)
58. Who among the following was an advocate of export based model?
(A) Alonso
(B) Kuklinski
(C) Perroux
(D) North
Answer: (D)
59. The Vale of Kashmir is the only level strip of land in the Himalayas. Which river has laid its deposits to form this level plain?
(A) Ravi
(B) Sutlej
(C) Beas
(D) Jhelum
Answer: (D)
60. In which of the following States of India women outnumber men?
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) Karnataka
(C) Haryana
(D) Kerala
Answer: (D)
61. Which one of the following States of India records the lowest density of population according to 2011 Census?
(A) Arunachal Pradesh
(B) Meghalaya
(C) Tripura
(D) Manipur
Answer: (A)
62. About 85 percent of the total iron ore production of India is from:
(A) Jharkhand and Orissa
(B) Karnataka and Orissa
(C) Bihar and Madhya Pradesh
(D) Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh
Answer: (A)
63. Name the Five Year Plan (FYP) in which the ‘Voluntary Sterilization Population Policy’ was introduced.
(A) First Five Year Plan
(B) Second Five Year Plan
(C) Third Five Year Plan
(D) Fourth Five Year Plan
Answer: (B)
64. In the sub-continent of India, the region frequently affected by tropical cyclones is the
(A) Gujarat coast
(B) Coromandel coast
(C) Konkan coast
(D) Malabar coast
Answer: (B)
65. Which of the following regions/areas is not affected by the monsoon of the Arabian Sea branch?
(A) Western Ghat
(B) Deccan Plateau
(C) Madhya Pradesh
(D) Punjab Plain
Answer: (D)
66. The heights of individual points on topographical maps are indicated by:
(A) Spot height only
(B) Benchmark only
(C) Triangulation point only
(D) All of the above
Answer: (D)
67. The broadest part of the Himalayas lies in
(A) Himachal Pradesh
(B) Arunachal Pradesh
(C) Jammu & Kashmir
(D) Nagaland
Answer: (C)
68. Which of the following regions of India is most developed economically?
(A) North-eastern hill region
(B) Eastern region
(C) North-western region
(D) Central region
Answer: (C)
69. If point A is at 230 m and point B at 570 m elevations from mean sea level with a horizontal equivalent of 2.0 km, which one of the following gradients is correct between these two points?
(A) 0.7 percent
(B) 7.0 percent
(C) 17.0 percent
(D) 27.0 percent
Answer: (C)
70. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
List – I (Satellite) List – II (Country)
(a) SPOT (1) India
(b) GOES (2) France
(c) Meteor-3 (3) Russia
(d) INSAT (4) USA
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (2) (4) (3) (1)
(B) (2) (4) (1) (3)
(C) (4) (2) (3) (1)
(D) (4) (2) (1) (3)
Answer: (A)
71. Which one of the following techniques is not suitable for showing urban population on the map?
(A) Circles
(B) Divided circles
(C) Spheres
(D) Hachures
Answer: (D)
72. Which one of the following statements is not correct?
(A) Contour maps are isopleths maps.
(B) Isopleths are lines of equal value.www.netugc.com
(C) Isopleth technique always takes administrative boundaries into account.
(D) Isopleth technique is suitable for continuous data.
Answer: (C)
73. Consider the following statements and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
1. Deserts, marshes and hilly tracts are known as the negative areas of population.
2. Dot method is the best technique to show the distribution of population.
3. Dot method can be used to show age and sex composition.
4. The dot map cannot be transferred into isopleth.
Codes:
(A) only 1 and 3 are correct.
(B) 1, 2 and 3 are correct.
(C) 1, 2 and 4 are correct.
(D) 1, 2, 3 and 4 are correct.
Answer: (C)
74. Which of the following is most suitable to show the unequality in the distribution?
(A) Lorenz curve
(B) Bar graph
(C) Circle diagram
(D) Isopleth
Answer: (A)
75. Which one of the following is the correct geometric mean of the data set : 0,50,100,100,150,250,450,500 ?
(A) 125
(B) 100
(C) 200
(D) 0
Answer: (D)
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