Fri. Jan 10th, 2025

RPSC Year 2012 Paper III

  1. Father of Human Geography

    Options:
    1. Ritter
    2. Ratzel
    3. Huntington
    4. Brunhes

    Option: B

  2. Who used ‘Areal differentiation’ first time in 1925?

    Options:
    1. Saver
    2. Taylor
    3. Hartshorne
    4. Isaiah Boueman

    Option: A

  3. Incorrect pair is

    Options:
    1. P. Haggett - Geography a modern synthesis
    2. Vidal de-la Blache Principals of Human Geography
    3. D.M. Smith -- Human Geography : A Welfare approach
    4. Fredrich Ratzel - Erdkunde

    Option: D

  4. Puerto Rico Trench is the greatest depth located in the

    Options:
    1. Pacific Ocean
    2. Indian ocean
    3. Atlantic Ocean
    4. Arctic ocean

    Option: C

  5. Which is the most urbanized country of the world?

    Options:
    1. U.S.A.
    2. Britain
    3. Japan
    4. Singapore

    Option: D

  6. Which district of India has smallest population in 2011?

    Options:
    1. Dibang Valley
    2. Azja
    3. Thane
    4. Jaisalmer

    Option: A

  7. Mesopotamia is the old name of

    Options:
    1. Iran
    2. Iraq
    3. Turkey
    4. Egypt

    Option: B

  8. ‘Khama’ is shelter of

    Options:
    1. Bushmen
    2. Khirghiz
    3. Masai
    4. Baduin

    Option: D

  9. Isoglasses are related to :

    Options:
    1. Languages
    2. Density of population speaking the same language
    3. Pronunciation
    4. Language wise distribution of population

    Option: C

  10. The one which is not a basic inter-locking process of the developmentof cultural geography is :

    Options:
    1. Invention
    2. Evolution
    3. Diffusion
    4. World Wars

    Option: D

  11. The one which is not the work of deposition:

    Options:
    1. Alluvial fan
    2. Moraine
    3. Sea Cliff
    4. Sand dunes

    Option: C

  12. If adiabatic cooling slows down suddenly it would mean that:

    Options:
    1. Condensation has started
    2. Amount of insolation has increased
    3. Ozone layer had depleted
    4. Carbon-dioxide has increased

    Option: A

  13. Prediction of weak monsoon in India this year is due to :

    Options:
    1. Abnormal rise of temperature in India
    2. Premature rains in India
    3. Development of El-Nino
    4. Development of La-Nina

    Option: C

  14. The scholar who first suggested classification of plants was

    Options:
    1. Linnaeus
    2. John Ray
    3. Pollas
    4. Arduino

    Option: A

  15. Choose the correct statement:

    Options:
    1. Assumption of horizontal movement is common in continental drift: theory and plate tectonic theory
    2. Wegner has assumed aesthonosphere in viscous state
    3. Wegner has assumed Sima in solid state
    4. All the plates have drifted Westwards

    Option: A

  16. Laws of migration are ascribed to:

    Options:
    1. Spate
    2. Harvey
    3. Revenstein
    4. Huntington

    Option: C

  17. Which of the following is not a federal state?

    Options:
    1. India
    2. Brazil
    3. United States of America
    4. Spain

    Option: D

  18. Choose the correct statement:

    Options:
    1. In a Lorenz curve, Y-axis is marked from 0 to 100 and X-axis ismarked from 100 to 0
    2. Standard deviation is a measure of central tendency
    3. Correlation between elevation and rainfall is 10.2
    4. Correlation between elevation and temperature is 5.5

    Option: A

  19. Top three administrative units of India showing highest economic growth rate (2011-12) are :

    Options:
    1. Punjab - Haryana Gujarat
    2. Bihar - Delhi - Puducherry
    3. Gujarat - Chhattisgarh - Delhi
    4. Punjab - Gujarat - Goa

    Option: B

  20. If the distribution of settlements is random, the Nearest Neighbour Analysis index will approximate:

    Options:
    1. 2.1
    2. 1.5
    3. 1
    4. 2

    Option: C