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