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?www.netugc.in
(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?
(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?www.netugc.in
(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
is
(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)www.netugc.in
(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.
(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)
