UGC NET 2017 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 নভেম্বর 2017 পেপার -2 ও 3 পোস্ট করা হোচ্ছে।
1. ‘Mohorovicic discontinuity’ marks the boundary between:
(1) Continental Shelf and Ocean crust
(2) Asthenosphere and lithosphere
(3) Crust and the upper mantle
(4) Core and the mantle
Answer: 3
2. The process in which one plate slides beneath another is known as:
(1) Advection
(2) Subduction
(3) Convergence
(4) Convection
Answer: 2
3. San Andreas fault is a:
(1) Transform fault
(2) Converging fault
(3) Spreading fault
(4) Submergent fault
Answer: 1
4. Which one of the following is a fluvio-glacial deposit?
(1) Pediplain
(2) Kame terrace
(3) Floodplain
(4) Loess plains
Answer: 2
5. Who among the following scholars has given the subsidence theory relating to coral-reefs?
(1) Dally
(2) Davis
(3) Dutton
(4) Darwin
Answer: 4
6. Which one of the following ranges of percentage of increase of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1750 is correct?
(1) 5-10%
(2) 10-15%
(3) 15-30%
(4) More than 30%
Answer: 4
7. Give below are two statements, one labelled as assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below:
Assertion (A): The shift of ITCZ is greater over sea than over land.
Reason (R): The land surface gets more heated than water bodies.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A)
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true
Answer: 4
8. The UVI (Ultra Violet Index) was developed in:
(1) 1950s
(2) 1990s
(3) 2000s
(4) 2010s
Answer: 2
9. Match List-I with the List –II and select the correct answer from the code given below:
| List-I (Gasses) | List-II (% of Gasses in Atmosphere) |
| (A) N2 | (i) 0.934% |
| (B) Ar | (ii) 0.039% |
| (C) O2 | (iii) 78% |
| (D) CO2 | (iv) 21% |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | iii | i | ii | iv |
| (2) | i | iii | ii | iv |
| (3) | iii | i | iv | ii |
| (4) | ii | iv | i | iii |
Answer: 3
10. Given below are two statements, one labelled as assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below:
Assertion (A): The subpolar low of the southern Hemisphere is nearly continuous.
Reason (R): The land mass is less in the southern hemisphere than in the northern hemisphere.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A)
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true
Answer: 1
11. Which one of the following regions is with high ocean water salinity?
(1) Equatorial
(2) Polar
(3) Subtropical
(4) Subpolar
Answer: 3
12. Which one of the following is responsible for the greatest movements of all the tides?
(1) Size of the Ocean
(2) Shape of the continents
(3) Gravitational attraction
(4) Salinity of the Ocean
Answer: 1
13. Which one of the following percentages of distance from earth surface is correct for ‘perigee’ of Moon than ‘apogee’?
(1) 2%
(2) 5%
(3) 8%
(4) 12%
Answer: 4
14. Given below are two statements, one labelled as assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below:
Assertion (A): The western sides of oceans are always warmer than the eastern margins.
Reason (R): The movement of major ocean currents is in the western sides.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A)
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true
Answer: 1
15. Which one of the following terms is appropriate for the mixing zone of two biomes?
(1) Environment
(2) Ecology
(3) Ecosound
(4) Ecotones
Answer: 4
16. Who among the following defined Geography as human ecology?
(1) Hartshorne
(2) Schaefer
(3) Barrows
(4) Richthofen
Answer: 3
17. Who among the following defined geography as discovery of predictive patterns during quantitative revolution period?
(1) Haggett
(2) Bunge
(3) Harvey
(4) Chorley
Answer: 2
18. who among the following correlated color of ocean water and salinity?
(1) Al Masudi
(2) Al Maqdisi
(3) Ibn Khaldun
(4) Ibn -Sina
Answer: 1
19 Which pair does not match correctly?
(1) P. Haggett – Geography a modern synthesis
(2) G. P. Marsh- Explanation in Geography
(3) P. E. James – All possible worlds
(4) Abler, Adams and Gould – Spatial organizations
Answer: 2
20. Match List-I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below: Table Contain Shows the Ideology And Proponent
| List-I (Ideology) | List-II (Proponent) |
| (A) Probabilism | (i) Humboldt |
| (B) Stop-and-go determinism | (ii) Ritter |
| (C) Systematic Geography | (iii) Griffith Taylor |
| (D) Modern Geography | (iv) O. H. K. Spate |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | i | iii | ii | iv |
| (2) | iii | iv | i | ii |
| (3) | iv | iii | i | ii |
| (4) | ii | iii | iv | i |
Answer: 3
21. Which one of the following total fertility rate is required to maintain the world’s existing population?
(1) 3.4
(2) 2.1
(3) 1.2
(4) 4.2
Answer: 2
22. Which of the following characteristics are required for any area to be called an urban area according to census of India?
(A) Any place with municipality, corporation, cantonment or notified town area
(B) At least 70% of male working population engaged in non-agricultural activities
(C) Minimum population of 5000 persons
(D) Density of population of 100 persons per square kilometer
Code:
(1) (A) and (B)
(2) (A), (B) and (C)
(3) (A) and (C)
(4) (A), (B), (C), (D)
Answer: 3
23. Which one of the following is not included in the Ravenstein’s Laws of migration?
(1) Most migrants proceeds step by step
(2) Most migrants go for short distance
(3) Most migrants move from Urban to Rural area
(4) Most migrant are adults
Answer: 3
24. Which one of the following is correct statement for Patna city in Bihar and Kolkata city in west Bengal?
(1) Edge City
(2) World City
(3) Post Industrial City
(4) Primate City
Answer: 4
25. Which one of the following principles denotes K-4 of Christaller’s Model of central places?
(1) Market
(2) Administrative
(3) Transport
(4) Economic
Answer: 3
26. Among the following, who developed the formula √∑d²⁄n for calculating crop combination?
(1) Doi
(2) J. C. Weaver
(3) Pownall
(4) Rafiullah
Answer: 2
27. Transportation cost does not play a major role in the location of textile industry because:
(1) Cotton is a weight loosing material
(2) Cotton is a weight gaining material
(3) Cotton is a pure material more or less equal to the finished material
(4) Weight loss in cotton during manufacturing is high
Answer: 3
28. Which of the following occupation is classified as a secondary activity?
(1) Carpenter
(2) Coal mixer
(3) School teacher
(4) Farmer
Answer: 1
29. Which of the following does not fall under intensive subsistence rice cultivation?
(1) South East Asia
(2) Southern China and Japan
(3) Nile valley and delta
(4) Coastal and delta areas of India
Answer: 3
30. Which one of the following group of activities are appropriately labelled for Goal-collar worker?
(1) Increasing the value of commodities by changing their form
(2) Financial, health, entertainment, education, information and data processing services; middle management administrative services; government bureaucrats
(3) Chief executive officers and other top management executives in both government and private service
(4) Exchanging services and ideas by telecommunication and satisfying the needs of people by changing their location
Answer: 3
31. The concept of Lebensraum became popular in the discipline of political geography after the publication of:
(1) Political Geography: World Economy, Nation-State and Locality
(2) Politische Geographic
(3) Geographical Pivot of History
(4) Making Political Geography
Answer: 2
32. Who propounded the ‘Theory of Heartland’ in political geography?
(1) Smith
(2) Spykman
(3) Mackinder
(4) Haushofer
Answer: 3
33. Cephalic index, used, used to classify human races is calculated as:
(1) Ratio between the length and breadth of the nose
(2) Ratio between the flatness and length of the head
(3) Ratio between the breadth and length of the head
(4) Ratio between the length of the head and weight of the human body
Answer: 3
34. Which of the following statements is not true about a state?
(1) It always has a social or cultural base
(2) It has a territorial base
(3) It claims internal sovereignty
(4) It claims sovereignty in external relations
Answer: 1
35. Who coined the term Geopolitics?
(1) Mackinder
(2) Haushofer
(3) Kiellen
(4) Spykman
Answer: 3
36. Which one of the following writers quoted “merely packing together of existing Sectoral or departmental plans does not automatically make an integrated plan. A plan becomes integrated only when backward and forward linkages are thoroughly analysed and interlinked in the area of planning are clearly specified”?
(1) S. N. Bhattacharya
(2) R. P. Mishra
(3) L. K. Sen
(4) M. L. Dantwala
Answer: 4
37. Which one of the following regions does not constitute the Damodar Valley Region?
(1) Deltaic Plain of west Bengal
(2) Deltaic plain of Padma river
(3) Chhotanagpur plateau
(4) Palamu Plateau
Answer: 2
38. Match List-I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below:
| List-I (Level of Planning) | List-II (Desired Scale of Map) |
| (A) State | (i) Large |
| (B) District | (ii) Cadastral |
| (C) Block | (iii) Medium |
| (D) Panchayat | (iv) Small |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | iv | i | iii | ii |
| (2) | iv | iii | ii | i |
| (3) | i | ii | iv | iii |
| (4) | iv | iii | i | ii |
Answer: 4
39. Which one of the following proposed the definition of regional planning: “Regional planning is the process of formulating and classifying social objectives in the ordering of activities in supra-urban space”?
(1) Charles L. Leven
(2) Antoni Kuklinski
(3) H. W. Richardson
(4) John Friedmann
Answer: 4
40. Which one of the following does not belong to the exploitive model of urban structure propounded by William Bunge?
(1) City of superfluity
(2) City of Death
(3) Central Business District
(4) City of need
Answer: 3
41. National Highway No. 48 in India passes through which of the places?
(1) Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai
(2) Pune, Goa, Coimbatore
(3) Agra, Bhopal, Mumbai
(4) Pune, Surat, Ahmedabad
Answer: 4
42. In which one of the following states of India the maximum Teak forest is found?
(1) Madhya Pradesh
(2) Bihar
(3) Uttar Pradesh
(4) Karnataka
Answer: 1
43. Which one of the following passes connects Arunachal Pradesh with Tibet?
(1) Banihal Pass
(2) Chang La Pass
(3) Bomdila Pass
(4) Aghil Pass
Answer: 3
44. The decadal growth rate of Indian population between 2001 and 2011 census was:
(1) 16.64%
(2) 17.64%
(3) 18.64%
(4) 19.64%
Answer: 2
45. Given below are two statements, one labelled as assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below:
Assertion (A): Population growth rate (2001 – 2011) was high for Bihar as compared to uttar pradesh.
Reason (R): Growth rate of population is the outcome of births minus deaths of a place.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true
Answer: 3
46. Which one of the following is the correct sequence (in the ascending order) of EMR spectral bands?
(1) Blue – Green – Red – Ultra Violet
(2) Ultra Violet -Blue – Green – Red
(3) Ultra Violet – Red – Blue – Green
(4) Green – Red – Blue –Ultra Violet
Answer: 2
47. Match List-I with the List –II and select the correct answer from the code given below: Table Contain Shows the Maps and Diagrams and its Aspect
| List-I (Maps and Diagrams) | List-II (Aspect) |
| (A) Isopleth Maps | (i) Natural Grouping |
| (B) Dot maps | (ii) Population Distribution |
| (C) Scatter Diagram | (iii) Wind Direction |
| (D) Star Diagram | (iv) Changes over space which are relatively gradual |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | iv | ii | i | iii |
| (2) | iv | i | iii | ii |
| (3) | i | ii | iii | iv |
| (4) | ii | iii | iv | i |
Answer: 1
48. Which one of the following group of colours is called primary colours?
(1) White, red and green
(2) Blue, green and red
(3) Yellow, violet and indigo
(4) Green, blue and black
Answer: 2
49. Consider the following line symbols:
(A) Isobars
(B) Contours
(C) Hachures
(D) Isochrones
Which of the above depicts relief?
Select the correct answer using depicts relief? Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(1) (a) and (d)
(2) (a) and (b)
(3) (b) and (c)
(4) (b) and (d)
Answer: 3
50. Which one of the following terms is used to measure the extreme peak in a normal distribution?
(1) Skewed
(2) Mesokurtic
(3) Leptokurtic
(4) Platykurtic
Answer: 3
Paper _-3
1. The concept of Pediplain is associated with:
(1) W. M. Davis
(2) L. C. King
(3) W. Penck
(4) C. A. Cotton
Answer: 2
2. The direction of a horizontal line on an inclined rock strata is known as:
(1) Anticline
(2) Dip
(3) Syncline
(4) Strike
Answer: 4
3. Who stated that the slope profiles are convex, plane or concave according to the circumstances of the uplifting action?
(1) Penck
(2) Davis
(3) Johnson
(4) Wood
Answer: 1
4. The premise that the present – day processes have been operating throughout geological time is the principle of:
(1) Isostasy
(2) Diastrophism
(3) Uniformitarianism
(4) Catastrophism
Answer: 3
5. Match List-I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the given bellow
| List-I (Scholar) | List-II (Theory) |
| (A) Hall and Dana | (i) Sea floor Spreading |
| (B) Hutton | (ii) Thermal Contraction Theory |
| (C) Harry Hess | (iii) Theory of Geosyncline |
| (D) Jeffrey | (iv) Doctrine of Uniformitarianism |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | i | ii | iv | iii |
| (2) | ii | i | iii | iv |
| (3) | iv | ii | i | iii |
| (4) | iii | iv | i | ii |
Answer: 4
6. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer. From the code given below:
Assertion (A): There is close relationship between volcanic activities and plate margins.
Reason (R): A vast majority of the world’ s volcanoes are associated with the convergent plate margins
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A)
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true
Answer: 1
7. Match List –I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below
| List-I (Topography) | List-II (Landforms) |
| (A) Glacial | (i) Alluvial fan |
| (B) Marine | (ii) Yardangs |
| (C) Fluvial | (iii) Arete |
| (D) Aeolian | (iv) Tombolo |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | ii | i | iii | iv |
| (2) | iv | ii | i | iii |
| (3) | iii | iv | ii | i |
| (4) | iii | iv | i | ii |
Answer: 4
8. Match List –I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below
| List-I (Author) | List-II (Book) |
| (A) J. A. Steers | (i) Morphological Analysis of Landforms |
| (B) S. W. Wooldridge | (ii) Principles of Geomorphology |
| (C) Walther Penck | (iii) Unstable Earth |
| (D) Thornbury | (iv) Spirit and Purpose of Geography |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | ii | iii | iv | i |
| (2) | i | iv | ii | iii |
| (3) | iv | ii | i | iii |
| (4) | iii | iv | i | ii |
Answer: 4
9. Which one of the following is the correct average slope of a typical ‘front’ in weather phenomena?
(1) 1: 150
(2) 1: 100
(3) 1: 50
(4) 1: 5
Answer: 2
10. Match List –I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below
| List-I (Conferences/Reports) | List-II (Held in/Published in) |
| (A) Global climate change impacts in the United States | (i) 2007 |
| (B) Stockholm Conference | (ii) 1992 |
| (C) Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC | (iii) 1972 |
| (D) Rio Conference | (iv) 2009 |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | i | ii | iii | iv |
| (2) | ii | i | iii | iv |
| (3) | iv | iii | ii | i |
| (4) | iv | iii | i | ii |
Answer: 4
11. In which one of the following atmospheric layers temperature remains constant?
(1) Stratosphere
(2) Tropopause
(3) Mesosphere
(4) Troposphere
Answer: 2
12. Which one of the following is the correct sequence of surface components of pressure and wind from the equator to the poles?
(1) Polar easterlies, Westerlies, Subtropical highs, Trade winds
(2) Subtropical highs, Westerlies, Trade winds, Polar easterlies
(3) Trade winds, Polar easterlies, Westerlies, Subtropical highs
(4) Trade winds, Subtropical highs, Westerlies, Polar easterlies
Answer: 4
13. Given below are two statements, one labelled as assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below:
Assertion (A): Above 1000 meter altitudes most winds follow a geostrophic or near-geostrophic course.
Reason (R): The friction layer of the atmosphere extends to only about 1000 meters above the ground.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: 1
14. Which one of the following isotherms for the average temperature of the warmest month is generally accepted as equator ward edge of the tundra climate?
(1) 2°C
(2) 10°C
(3) 5°C
(4) 15°C
Answer: 2
15. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below
Assertion (A): The trade winds are predominantly easterly.
Reason (R): An easterly wind blows from west to east.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: 3
16. Which one of the following types of climate is appropriate for BWh in Koppen’s world Climate classification?
(1) Subtropical Desert Climate
(2) Subtropical steppe climate
(3) Midlatitude Desert Climate
(4) Midlatitude Steppe Climate
Answer: 1
17. Which one of the following values of temperature is correct for the average freezing point for sweater in Arctic and Antarctic seas?
(1) 2°C
(2) 0°C
(3) -2°C
(4) -10°C
Answer: 3
18.Match List –I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below Table Contain Shows the Plate name and Its Direction of Movement
| List-I (Plate name) | List-II (Direction of movement) |
| (A) Indo-Australian Plan | (i) East |
| (B) Cocos plate | (ii) West |
| (C) Pacific plate | (iii) North |
| (D) Nazca plate | (iv) North – West |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | i | ii | iii | iv |
| (2) | ii | i | iii | iv |
| (3) | iv | iii | ii | i |
| (4) | iv | iii | i | ii |
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(1) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(2) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(3) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(4) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
Answer: 2
19. Which one of the following periods when the sea level around the world, was as must as 130 meters lower than today
(1) Holocene
(2) Pleistocene
(3) Miocene
(4) Cambrian
Answer: 2
20. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below:
Assertion (A): The moon produces greater percentage of Earth’s tides than the sun.
Reason (R): The sun is closer to the Earth than the Moon.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: 3
21. Which one of the following terms is appropriate for plants that endure seasonal climatic fluctuations from year to year?
(1) Perennials
(2) Annuals
(3) Seasonal
(4) Bi-annuals
Answer: 1
22. Given below are two statements, one labelled as assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below:
Assertion (A): The regional boundaries of biomes are some-what arbitrary.
Reason (R): All kinds of major biomes are existing both in ocean and land.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true
Answer: 3
23. Match List –I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below Table Contain Shows the Zoogeographic regions And Country Name
| List-I (Zoogeographic regions) | List-II (Country) |
| (A) Oriental | (i) Brazil |
| (B) Nearctic | (ii) Sumatra |
| (C) Neotropical | (iii) Netherland |
| (D) Palaearctic | (iv) USA |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | ii | iv | i | iii |
| (2) | iii | iV | ii | i |
| (3) | iii | ii | i | iv |
| (4) | i | ii | iii | iv |
Answer: 1
24. The term ‘cultural landscape’ was developed by:
(1) C. Darwin
(2) C. O. Sauer
(3) A. Humboldt
(4) C. Ritter
Answer: 2
25. Who among the following emphasized on the behavioural environment in Geography?
(1) Johnston
(2) Kirk
(3) Gregory
(4) Burton
Answer: 2
26. Who among the following developed the concept of mental map?
(1) Gould and White
(2) Boulding and Haggerstrand
(3) Downs and Stea
(4) Saarinen
Answer: 1
27. Who among the following geographers focused on man-centered geography?
(1) Huntington
(2) Semple
(3) Jefferson
(4) Ratzel
Answer: 3
28. Who was the first Greek scholar to calculate the circumference of the earth?
(1) Aristotle
(2) Herodotus
(3) Anaximander
(4) Eratosthenes
Answer: 4
29. “Space is socially culturally Constructed” is the view under:
(1) Behaviouralism
(2) Logical Positivism
(3) Structuralism
(4) Post Modernism
Answer: 4
30. Match List –I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below Table Contain Shows the Geographer And School of Geography
| List-I (Geographer) | List-II (School of Geography) |
| (A) Albert Demangeon | (i) German school of geography |
| (B) Friedrick Ratzel | (ii) French school of geography |
| (C) Halford J. Mackinder | (iii) British school of geography |
| (D) Isaiah Bowman | (iv) American school of geography |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | i | ii | iv | iii |
| (2) | ii | i | iv | iii |
| (3) | ii | i | iii | iv |
| (4) | iv | ii | iii | i |
Answer: 3
31. Who wrote the book ‘Meteorologica’?
(1) Aristotle
(2) Posidonius
(3) Plato
(4) Eratosthenes
Answer: 1
32. Which one of the following continents recorded highest density of population as per United Nations population fund 2015 data?
(1) Europe
(2) Asia
(3) North America
(4) Australia
Answer: 2
33. Japan’s population pyramid would most likely resemble to that of:
(1) USA
(2) Brazil
(3) Denmark
(4) India
Answer: 3
34. Consider the following statements: Developing countries have registered increase in population despite significant decline in fertility rates because of.
(A) Increase in Life Expectancy rate
(B) Increase in Infant Mortality rate
(C) Falling Death rate
(D) Better Living conditions
Tick one of the following code, which reflects the above statements?
(1) (A), (B) and (D) are correct
(2) (A), (C) and (D) are correct
(3) (A), (B), (C) are correct
(4) (B), (C) and (D) are correct
Answer: 2
35. Which one of the following statements represents Population Pyramid with Wide base:
(1) Declining Fertility Rates
(2) High Fertility Rates
(3) Declining Death rates
(4) High death rates
Answer: 2
36. Which one of the following depicts correct statement of Population Threshold for any service?
(1) Maximum distance that people can travel to use a service
(2) Minimum distance required for opening a service
(3) Minimum population size required for a service
(4) Maximum population size required for a service
Answer: 3
37. Match List –I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below
| List-I (Term) | List-II (Definition) |
| (A) Site of human settlements | (i) Movement due to opportunities of employment |
| (B) Situation of human settlements | (ii) The physical and cultural characteristics an attributes of a place |
| (C) Pull factor in migration | (iii) The relative location with particular referent to the significance to a place |
| (D) Migration field | (iv) Area that dominates a locale in and migration pattern |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | i | iv | ii | iii |
| (2) | ii | iii | i | iv |
| (3) | iii | ii | iv | i |
| (4) | iv | ii | i | iii |
Answer: 2
38. Match List –I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below Table Contain Shows the Term and Defination
| List-I (Term) | List-II (Definition) |
| (A) Central City | (i) Continuous built-up landscape with high density of buildings with no reference to political boundary |
| (B) Network City | (ii) Areas outside city with urban characteristics |
| (C) Urban Influence Zone | (iii) Urban area contained within the official boundaries of the main city around which suburb develops |
| (D) Urbanized Area | (iv) Two or more independent but complementary cities having high speed transport corridors |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | i | ii | iv | iii |
| (2) | iii | iv | ii | i |
| (3) | ii | iv | iii | i |
| (4) | iv | ii | i | iii |
Answer: 2
39. Local the following places in multiple nuclei theory of urban structure in the figure and match it with the list given below. Image of Urban Structure List:
(A) Wholesale and light manufacturing
(B) High class residential
(C) Medium class residential
(D) Industrial Suburb
Code:
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(1) (B) (C) (A) (D)
(2) (A) (B) (C) (D)
(3) (A) (C) (B) (D)
(4) (C) (D) (A) (B)
Answer: 3
40. Which one of the following does not have role in push factors that seem to be operative in rural India?
(1) Rapid increase in the population growth
(2) High pressure of population on arable land
(3) Low per capita income and glaring disparity between levels of income of urban and rural areas
(4) Slow but consistent increase in amenities in rural areas and increase in per capita income
Answer: 4
41. Which one of the following defined regional growth pole as a “set of expanding industries located an urban area including further development of economic activity throughout its zone of influence”.
(1) A. O. Hirschman
(2) F. Perroux
(3) Boudeville
(4) B. J. L. Berry
Answer: 3
42. Match List –I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below Table Contain Shows the Number of likely settlements of different orders
| List-I (Number of likely settlements of different orders) | List-II (K values) |
| (A) 8, 32, 128 | (i) K2 |
| (B) 4, 13, 40 | (ii) K13 |
| (C) 3, 20, 141 | (iii) K3 |
| (D) 2, 27, 351 | (iv) K4 |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | iv | iii | ii | i |
| (2) | iv | ii | iii | i |
| (3) | i | iii | ii | iv |
| (4) | iv | iii | i | ii |
Answer: 3
43. Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below:
Assertion (A): The Green Revolution contributed to aggravation of poverty rather than its solution.
Reason (R): Wealthy and landed farmers realised that Green Revolution together with agricultural mechanization provided great potential for self-cultivation. They began to withdraw land from share cropping and rental market. As a consequence, a large number of tenants and peasants lost their jobs.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: 1
44. Which activity contributes to water pollution more than any other throughout the world?
(1) Agriculture
(2) Hydro-electricity power generation
(3) Manufacturing industries
(4) Urbanization
Answer: 4
45. Which of the following Ocean routes is the most important and busiest route in the world?
(1) The Cape Route
(2) North Pacific Route
(3) South Atlantic Route
(4) North Atlantic Route
Answer: 4
46. Which one of the following was not assured by weber in his least-cost theory?
(1) Agglomeration economies lead to high transport and labour cost
(2) Labour is infinitely available
(3) Location with high transport costs may be attractive because of a cheap labour supply
(4) Transport costs were uniform by distance and weight in any direction
Answer: 1
47. From the transport network graph given below, select one of the following code to depict ‘Diameter Index’ Correctly. Image of Transport Network Graph
(1) 2
(2) 4
(3) 3
(4) 1
Answer: 2
48. Given below are two statements, one labelled as assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below:
Assertion (A): Between Durgapur-Asansol-Chittaranjan and numerous collieries and connected activities, the Asansol sub-division represents one of larger industrial complexes in the world.
Reason (R): The substantial coal reserves and output, iron and steel output and engineering industry in the Asansol sub-division outside the Calcutta metropolitan district are found.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true
Answer: 1
49. Who among the following political scholars appealed in 1949 for “a more geographical political geography”?
(1) Hartshorne
(2) G. E. Pearcy
(3) R. H. Fifield
(4) George T. Renner
Answer: 1
50. Who wrote the known as the ‘world political Geography’?
(1) G. E. Pearcy
(2) Stephen B. Jones
(3) J. K. Wright
(4) Hartshorne
Answer: 1
51. Match List –I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below
| List-I (Tribe) | List-II (Habitat) |
| (A) Bhils | (i) Shillong plateau |
| (B) Gonds | (ii) Eastern Jharkhand |
| (C) Santhals | (iii) Chattisgarh |
| (D) Garo | (iv) Aravalli |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | iv | iii | ii | i |
| (2) | i | ii | iii | iv |
| (3) | iii | i | iv | ii |
| (4) | ii | iii | iv | i |
Answer: 1
52. The concept of ‘Cultural landscape’ was popularised by:
(1) Wilbur Zelinsky
(2) Carl Sauer
(3) Anne Buttimer
(4) Ratzel
Answer: 2
53. The paradoxical situation of co-existence of the patrilineal society and the dominating position of women characterize:
(1) Tharu Tribe
(2) Khasi Tribe
(3) Gond Tribe
(4) Bhil Tribe
Answer: 1
54. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below:
Assertion (A): Joint family institution is linked with the economically less developed area.
Reason (R): Educated and well placed white collar employees go for nuclear family.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: 4
55. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below:
Assertion (A): Metros are emerging as efficient, viable and alternate means of transportation in metropolitan cities in our country.
Reason (R): Old and unplanned cities with rapidly growing population are burdened with multi-mode of transportation in India.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: 1
56. Match List –I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below
| List-I (Approach) | List-II (Development Index) |
| (A) Development index | (i) Average development rating based on opinions of a presumably qualified sample group. |
| (B) Consensus | (ii) Composite development scores based on a combination of numerous sub-scores for individual indicators. |
| (C) Subjective integration | (iii) Per capita income, longevity of live and social well-being. |
| (D) Human development | (iv) A set of adhoc regions, the classes and boundaries of which are determined on the basis of field experiences combined with subjective assessment. |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | ii | iv | iii | i |
| (2) | ii | i | iv | iii |
| (3) | i | iv | iii | ii |
| (4) | ii | i | iii | iv |
Answer: 2
57. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below:
Assertion (A): MNREGA constituted very ambitious rural development programme of India.
Reason (R): Building basic infrastructure got linked to provide minimum number of days guaranteed employment.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: 1
58. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below:
Assertion (A): Urban agglomerations and metropolitan cities are growing rapidly in India.
Reason (R): Satellite towns are not sufficiently and significantly developed to release the pressure of urban population.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: 1
59. Which one of the following statements is very correct in context of the concept of Growth pole and growth centres?
(1) Both the Growth pole and Growth centres are uniformly distanced in the region.
(2) Lower order Growth centers are located quite far away as compared to higher order Growth centres.
(3) Higher order Growth centres are located far away while lower order Growth centres are located closer to one and another.
(4) There does not exist any rule in the distance between Growth pole and Growth centres.
Answer: 3
60. The percentage of decadal growth of population (2001 – 2011) is the highest in which of the following states?
(1) West Bengal
(2) Maharashtra
(3) Uttar Pradesh
(4) Arunachal Pradesh
Answer: 4
61 Which one of the following is responsible for concentration of slum population in India?
(1) Commercial plantation activities are dominant.
(2) Manufacturing activities in organised sector are dominant.
(3) Service activities in organised sector are dominant.
(4) Manufacturing and Service activities in non-formal sector are dominant.
Answer: 4
62. Which one of the following states is leading producer of coffee in India?
(1) Kerala
(2) Karnataka
(3) Assam
(4) Tamil Nadu
Answer: 2
63. Match List –I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below
| List-I (Hydel Power Projects) | List-II (States) |
| (A) Sharavathi | (i) Odisa |
| (B) Balimela | (ii) Uttar Pradesh |
| (C) Obra | (iii) Karnataka |
| (D) Shanam | (iv) Punjab |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | i | iii | iv | ii |
| (2) | ii | iii | iv | i |
| (3) | ii | iv | i | iii |
| (4) | iii | i | ii | iv |
Answer: 4
64. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below:
Assertion (A): Northern part of Ganga plain has very few irrigation canals.
Reason (R): This area receives high rainfall and has plenty of underground water.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: 1
65. Match List –I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below (2016 – 17)
| List-I (Crops) | (Largest producer state, 2016 – 17) |
| (A) Raw cotton | (i) Uttar Pradesh |
| (B) Mustard | (ii) Rajasthan |
| (C) Maize | (iii) Gujarat |
| (D) Wheat | (iv) Andhra Pradesh |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | iii | iv | ii | i |
| (2) | iv | iii | i | ii |
| (3) | iii | ii | iv | i |
| (4) | i | ii | iii | iv |
Answer: 3
66. Match List –I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below Table Contain Shows the Mountains/Ranges and Peaks
| List-I (Mountains/Ranges | List-II (Peaks) |
| (A) Nilgiri | (i) Sagarmatha |
| (B) Satpura | (ii) Mt. Abu |
| (C) Aravalli | (iii) Dhupgarh |
| (D) Himalaya | (iv) Dodabetta |
Code:
| (A) | (B) | (C) | (D) | |
| (1) | iii | iv | i | ii |
| (2) | i | ii | iii | iv |
| (3) | iv | iii | ii | i |
| (4) | iii | iv | ii | i |
Answer: 3
67. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A), and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below:
Assertion (A): With every successive census in India, the growth of population results in greater increase in slum population.
Reason (R): Both the area and the population of India have been increasing continuously.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: 3
68. Which one of the following phenomenal relationships is depicted by an ergograph?
(1) Temperature and absolute humidity
(2) Rainfall and runoff
(3) Crop production and rainfall
(4) Crop season and weather conditions
Answer: 4
69. Which one of the following altitudes belongs to sun synchronous polar orbit?
(1) 30, 000 to 36, 000km
(2) 2, 000to6, 000km
(3) 300to1000km
(4) 5, 000to15, 000km
Answer: 3
Answer: 4
71. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A), and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below:
Assertion (A): Standard Deviation of a series is the measure of its variation.
Reason (R): Standard Deviation is needed to compare the variation between two or more series.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is t3rue.
Answer: 3
72. Consider the following statements:
(A) Tele-communication satellites are mostly Geostationary satellites usually placed at an altitudes of more than 30, 000km.
(B) Resource satellites are sun synchronous usually placed at an altitude of 300-1000km.
Which of the above statements are true?
(1) (a) only
(2) both (a) and (b)
(3) (b) only
(4) neither (a) nor (b)
Answer: 2
73. Which one of the following sensors is an active remote sensing sensor?
(1) Photo Camera
(2) Multiframe Camera
(3) Multiband Scanner
(4) Radar
Answer: 4
74. Consider the following figures X and Y:
Which one of the following statements is correct?
(1) Figure X is small-scale map and distance between A and B is 40 metres.
(2) Figure Y is large-scale map and distance between C and D is 4 km.
(3) Figure X is large-scale map and figure Y is small-scale and distance between A and B and C and D are 40 metres and 20km, respectively.
(4) Figure X is large scale and figure Y is small-scale. The ground distance between A and B, and C and D are equal.
Answer: 3
75. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A), and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below:
Assertion (A): Dot map is especially useful when the values are distributed unevenly and sporadically.
Reason (R): Smaller the statistical unit, more accurate is the Dot map.
Code:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: 2
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