Examination questions and solutions
Test Amit sep
Searched Tag : UGC NET/JRF Exam. IIIrd Paper December 2013
Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given —
List-I
a.A plain largely composed of recent alluvium
b.A deep sea plain
c.A plain formed by wind action
d.A level surface lightly covered with thin layer of alluvium
List-II
1.Pedi plain
2.Loess plain
3.Flood plain
4.Abyssal plain
Codes
a=4, b=3, c=2, d=1
a=3, b=4, c=1, d=2
a=4, b=3, c=1, d=2
a=3, b=4, c=2, d=1
The essential feature of shifting cultivation is —
Rotation of crops
Rotation of fields
Single cropping
Use of plenty of fertilizers
Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below—
List-I (Natural Parks & List-II
Wild Life Sanctuaries) (States)
(a) Nandan kanan 1.Maharashtra
(b) Kaziranga 2.Madhya Pradesh
(c) Bandhavgarh 3.Odisha
(d) Melghat 4.Assam
Codes
a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4
a=2, b=3, c=4, d=1
a=3, b=4, c=2, d=1
a=4, b=1, c=3, d=2
Who has, amongst the following geographers, defined Geography of Public Finance 'who gets what, where, and at what cost' ?
R.J. Chorley
David Harvey
P.Claval
R.J.Bennett
Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below —
List-I List-II
a.Falkland current 1.Warm current
b.Norwegian current 2.Cold current
c.Florida current 3.Atlantic Ocean
d.Okholsk current 4.Kamchetka Peninsula
Codes
a=2, b=3, c=1, d=4
a=1, b=2, c=4, d=3
a=3, b=1, c=2, d=4
a=4, b=3, c=1, d=2
Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below —
List-I List-II
a.Rivers 1.Sand stone
b.Settlements 2.Gale
c.Winds 3.Levees
d.Rocks 4.Satellite
Codes
a=3, b=4, c=2, d=1
a=4, b=3, c=1, d=2
a=2, b=1, c=4, d=3
a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4
Under the scope of town planning in India is covered—
1.Urban renewal
2.Planning of urban amenities and facilities
3.Building of new towns
4.Building of metropolitan cities
Codes
1 and 3 are correct
only 1 is correct
1, 2 and 3 are correct
2, 3 and 4 are correct
What is the common practice involved in shifting cultivation ?
Use of sophisticated machinery
Large scale use of fertilizers
Utilization of poor soils through ploughing/ fallowing
Maximum use of animal power
Truck farming is associated with—
Vegetables
Milk
Cereals
Poultry
A meteor is—
Comet without a tail
Detached piece of an asteroid
Tiny star
Piece of matter which has entered the earth's atmosphere from outer space
Which one of the following ports has been developed on a lagoon ?
Chennai
Mumbai
Kochi
Visakhapatnam
Match the following from the codes—
List-I List-II
(Major Proponent) (Philosophy of Geography)
a.Gibson 1.Idealism
b.Guelke 2.Realism
c.Peet 3.Behaviouralism
d.Wright and Kirk 4.Radicalism
Codes
a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4
a=1, b=2, c=4, d=3
a=2, b=1, c=4, d=3
a=2, b=1, c=3, d=4
Who, amongst the following, has propounded the concept of Time Space Geography ?
Hagerstrand
Haggett
Johnston
Harvey
Who, amongst the following, defined Geography as a chorological science ?
Ptolemy
Richthofen
Hettner
P.E.James
Which one of the following is not an assumption or principle of the concentric zone model of urban land case ?
Cultural and social heterogeneity of the population
Transport is equally easy, rapid and cheap in every direction within the city
None of districts is attractive due to differences in terrain
There is a concentration of heavy industry
Match the following—
List-I List-II(Rate of Female
(State) Literacy (%) at 2011 census)
a.Uttarakhand 1. 69.7
b.Chhattisgarh 2. 70.0
c.Tamil Nadu 3. 60.2
d.Gujarat 4. 73.4
Codes
a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4
a=2, b=3, c=4, d=1
a=3, b=4, c=1, d=2
a=4, b=3, c=2, d=1
Which of the following is not a supervised image classification technique ?
Parallelopiped classifier
Minimum distance to mean classifier
Neural network analysis
Gaussian maximum likelihood classifier
Which one of the following tribes does not correctly matched ?
Batwa and Congo Basin
Ruwala and Central Iran
Inuit and Canada
Yuklagir and Siberia
Read Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and find the correct answer from the codes given below—
Assertion (A) : Global urban population is not uniformly distributed by location and nearly two-thirds is relatively concentrated within low elevation coastal areas.
Reason (R) : Soil fertility in the coastal areas caused concentration of rural settlements.
Both A and R are correct and R explains A
Both A and R are correct, but R does not explain A
A is correct, but R is false
A is false, but R is true
Which one of the following States has recorded the lowest human development index ?
Bihar
Himachal Pradesh
Punjab
Haryana
In which of the following year, IRS-1A was launched ?
1982
1987
1988
1990
An original map has the RF-1/50,000 and R.F. of the new map will be 1/250,000. What is the correct proportion of enlargement/ reduction as given below ?
Reduction 1/5
Enlargement (5 times)
Reduction 1/10
Enlargement (10 times)
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R)-
Assertion (A) : The Raster format data structure provides a greater computational efficiency.
Reason (R): The Raster format data is simple.
In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct ?
Both A and R are correct and R explains A
Both A and R are correct, but R does not explain A
A is correct, but R is false
A is false, but R is correct
Which one of the following map scales is a large scale ?
1 : 250,000
1 : 25,000
1 : 500,000
1 : 50,000
Which one of the following is a centrographic measure ?
Geometric mean
Arithmetic mean
Mean centre
Standard deviation
Which one of the following group of States, which includes catchment area of Cauvery river basin is correct ?
Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Pondicherry and Andhra Pradesh
Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Pondicherry
Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Kerala
Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Pondicherry
Which one of the following Indian Remote Sensing Satellites. IRS-P4 is also known as—
Resourcesat
Edusat
Remotesat
Oceansat
Which one of the following regions witnessed the growth of mighty civilizations of Roman and Greek ?
Temperate region
Savanna region
Mediterranean region
Tundra region
Which one of the following is not a measure of Central tendency ?
Arithmetic mean
Mean deviation
Median
Mode
Several planned cities have been developed in India after Independence. Which one of the following is not a post-independence planned city ?
Gandhinagar
Chandigarh
Jaipur
Bhubaneshwar
amit test 1