GkSeries.com

UGC NET(National Eligibility Test) Geography - Previous Years Solved Papers | Paper II November 2017

1. ‘Mohorovicic discontinuity’ marks the boundary between :
  1. (1) Continental shelf and Ocean crust
  2. (2) Asthenosphere and lithosphere
  3. (3) Crust and the upper mantle
  4. (4) Core and the mantle

Answer: (3) Socialization

2. The process in which one plate slides beneath another is known as :
  1. (1) Advection
  2. (2) Subduction
  3. (3) Convergence
  4. (4) Convection

Answer: (2) Family

DOWNLOAD CURRENT AFFAIRS PDF FROM APP

3. San Andrean 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 plain

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. 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 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 :

Code :
  • (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: (3)

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) P. Hagget
  • (2) W. Bunge
  • (3) D. Harvey
  • (4) R.J. Chorley

Answer: (2)

18. Who among the following correlated the colour of ocean water and its salinity ?
  • (1) Al Masudi
  • (2) Al Maqdisi
  • (3) Ibn - Khaldun
  • (4) Ibn - Sina

Answer: (1)

19. Which one of the following pairs does not match correctly ?
  • (1) P. Hagget - 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 :

Code :
  • (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 areas
  • (4) Most migrants 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 ΣD2 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 Gold-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) Haushoffer

Answer: (3)

33. Cephalic index , 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 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

35. Who coined the term Geopolitics ?
  • (1) Mackinder
  • (2) Haushoffer
  • (3) Kjellen
  • (4) Spykman

Answer: (3)

36. Which one of the following writters 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) Chotanagpur Plateau
  • (4) Palamau Plateau

Answer: (2)

38. Match List-I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below :

Code :
  • (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 Friedman

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) Bom Dila 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 not a 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 :

Code :
  • (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 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)

UGC NET Geography November 2017 Paper III

Please share this page

Click Here to Read more questions

Teacher Eligibility Test