Fri. Jan 10th, 2025

RPSC Year 2013 Paper II

  1. Maori tribe inhabits in :

    Options:
    1. New Zealand
    2. Japan
    3. Peru
    4. Nigeria

    Option: A

  2. Depositional feature is :

    Options:
    1. Sheep rock
    2. Polje
    3. Yardang
    4. Drumlin

    Option: D

  3. The clouds consisting of ice crystals are :

    Options:
    1. Cumulus
    2. Stratus
    3. Cirrus
    4. Nimbus

    Option: C

  4. The scholar who first suggested the use of a grid of latitudes and longitudes for locating places is :

    Options:
    1. Humboldt
    2. W. H. Hobbs
    3. Anaximander
    4. Hipparchus

    Option: D

  5. Part of Notogean zoo-geographical realm is :

    Options:
    1. South American region
    2. Central American region
    3. Australian region
    4. Ethiopian region

    Option: C

  6. Sub-tropical high pressure belts are :

    Options:
    1. Dynamically induced
    2. Induced by precession of the earth's axis
    3. Thermally induced
    4. Polar vortex induced

    Option: A

  7. The biome, to which elephant grass belongs, is :

    Options:
    1. Temperate grasslands
    2. Tropical grasslands
    3. Tundra
    4. Taiga

    Option: B

  8. Correct sequence of orogenies is :

    Options:
    1. Hercynian, Caledonian, Chernian, Alpine
    2. Caledonian, Chernian, Alpine, Hercynian
    3. Chernian, Caledonian, Hercynian, Alpine
    4. Alpine, Chernian, Hercynian, Caledonian

    Option: C

  9. The circular winds blowing outwards in anticlockwise direction are :

    Options:
    1. Cyclone in southern hemisphere
    2. Anticyclone in northern hemisphere
    3. Cyclone in northern hemisphere
    4. Anticyclone in southern hemisphere

    Option: D

  10. Ocean current not circumscribing the Sargasso sea is :

    Options:
    1. Counter Equatorial
    2. Gulf stream
    3. North Atlantic drift
    4. Canary

    Option: A

  11. The scholar not related to the Heartland concept is :

    Options:
    1. D. W. Meinig
    2. N. J. Spykman
    3. D. J. M. Hooson
    4. H. J. Mackinder

    Option: B

  12. The spatial information system which is not an application of geographic Information System (GIS) is :

    Options:
    1. Land Information System
    2. Digital topographic database
    3. Computer-assisted designing (CAD)
    4. Urban and Regional Information System

    Option: C

  13. The fault, along which the two land masses move away from each other, is known as:

    Options:
    1. Reverse
    2. Normal
    3. Tear
    4. Ridge

    Option: B

  14. The one, which is not a measure of dispersion, is :

    Options:
    1. Standard deviation
    2. Percentile range
    3. Quartile range
    4. Mode

    Option: D

  15. The coast, extending northward from Krishna delta, is :

    Options:
    1. Coromandel
    2. Uttar Sarkar
    3. Malabar
    4. Kathiawar

    Option: B

  16. Selvas are found in :

    Options:
    1. Amazon basin
    2. Murray-Darling basin
    3. Mississippi basin
    4. Hwang Ho basin

    Option: A

  17. Earthquake shadow zone does approximately spread over

    Options:
    1. 20°
    2. 120°
    3. 40°
    4. 60°

    Option: C

  18. When the absolute humidity in the air is 4 mg and the relative humidityis 50%, if the absolute humidity increases to 6 mg at the same temperature, the relative humidity will be :

    Options:
    1. 33%
    2. 75%
    3. 50%
    4. 100%

    Option: B

  19. Correct Pair is :

    Options:
    1. Khammam - Manganese
    2. Kodarma - Mica
    3. Noamandi - Copper
    4. Naktipalli - Coal

    Option: B

  20. The assumption, not made by Weber in Least Cost theory, is :

    Options:
    1. Markets exist at specific place
    2. Raw materials occur at few locations
    3. Labour is immobile and their supply is unlimited
    4. Labour is mobile but their supply is limited

    Option: D