Fri. Jan 10th, 2025

DSSSB Year 2014 PGT Tier I

  1. The term used to describe damage done to a public area, such as overfishing and environment damage to the open seas is known as

    Options:
    1. tragedy of the commons
    2. overharvesting of the oceans
    3. public plunder
    4. maximum profit

    Option: A

  2. The vast majority of increase in all grain production worldwide is due to the

    Options:
    1. increase in yield
    2. expansion of farmland
    3. decrease in animal production
    4. increase in world subsistence farming

    Option: A

  3. Mediterranean agriculture is

    Options:
    1. dependent upon large quantities of summer rainfall
    2. known for grapes, olives, oranges and figs
    3. one of the least productive of the agricultural regions
    4. only found in Southern Europe and Northern Africa

    Option: B

  4. Which statement is true regarding farming activity in the United States ?

    Options:
    1. The size of farms is increasing
    2. The number of farms is increasing
    3. The number of people working in agriculture is increasing
    4. The number of "general farms" is increasing

    Option: A

  5. Which of the following statement regarding the role of women in agriculture is not correct?

    Options:
    1. The advances from the Green Revolution were unkind to women in that it reduced the female role in agricultural development programs
    2. Women farmers are responsible for at least fifty percent of the worlds food
    3. women farmers share equally with men farmers in the rewards from agriculture
    4. women farmers work longer hours for lower wages than men farmers

    Option: C

  6. The chlef goal of the Green Revolution was to

    Options:
    1. Increase harvest from the amount
    2. make farming less costly
    3. Increase farm size
    4. equalize women's role with men in farming

    Option: A

  7. Out-sourcing is

    Options:
    1. choosing alternate sources of raw materials
    2. physically delimiting a company's market for others
    3. producing parts or products abroad for domestic sale
    4. selling goods at a cheaper price to close down competitors

    Option: C

  8. The mean square is the sum of squares divided by

    Options:
    1. the total number of observations
    2. its corresponding degrees of freedom
    3. its corresponding degrees of freedom minus one
    4. none of these

    Option: B

  9. The second demographic transition refers to

    Options:
    1. a second, less extreme, population boom
    2. the demographic transition as it is experienced in the Third World
    3. a demographic transition resulting in below-replacement fertility rates
    4. a rebound effect from the first demographic transition

    Option: C

  10. In which stage(s) of the demographic transition theory would you predict that population growth would be highest?

    Options:
    1. Stage 1
    2. Stages 2 and 3
    3. Stages 1 and 4
    4. Stage 4

    Option: B

  11. Which of the following is not a factor affecting the fertility rate of a population ?

    Options:
    1. Average age of marriage
    2. The prevalence of breast feeding
    3. Infant mortality
    4. None of the above

    Option: D

  12. According to Thomas Malthus, freedom minus one celibacy, birth control, delayed marriage and other strategies to limit reproduction are referred to as

    Options:
    1. reproductive control
    2. positive checks
    3. fertility control
    4. preventive checks

    Option: D

  13. Which of the following types of soil have a marked capacity to retain water?

    Options:
    1. Desert soil
    2. Laterite soil
    3. Red soil
    4. Regur soil

    Option: D

  14. The temperature at which water vapours condense, is the

    Options:
    1. Relative humidity
    2. Condensation point
    3. Dew point
    4. Evaporation point

    Option: C

  15. Given below are two statements, one labelled as assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the codes given below:

    Assertion (A) : The work of wind as an agent of gradation is not as widespread as that of water.

    Reason (R) : It is effective only in the desert regions of the world where rainfall is scanty and soil particles are loose.

    Options:
    1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
    2. Both (A) and (A) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
    3. (A) is true but (A) is false
    4. (A) is false but (R) is true

    Option: A

  16. A functional region is delineated on the basis of

    Options:
    1. Administrative boundaries
    2. Field of interactions
    3. Isolines
    4. Physical divisions

    Option: B

  17. The number of persons expressed in terms of unit area of agricultural land is known as

    Options:
    1. Economic Density
    2. Physiological Density
    3. Arithmetical Density
    4. Agricultural Density

    Option: D

  18. The polar regions are sparsely populated because

    Options:
    1. The growing season is short owing to low temperature
    2. There are no mineral resources
    3. The regions are forested
    4. Both (B) and (C)

    Option: A

  19. Who defined settlement geography first time incorporating the concept of settlement pattern, house types and field system?

    Options:
    1. Meitzen
    2. Stone
    3. Huntington
    4. Trewartha

    Option: A

  20. The highest salinity is found in the

    Options:
    1. Baltic Sea
    2. Okhotsk Sea
    3. Mediterranean Sea
    4. Red Sea

    Option: D