Thu. Jan 9th, 2025

SET 2013 Paper III

  1. The first scholar known for calculating earth’s circumference, is –

    Options:
    1. Anaximander
    2. Eratosthenes
    3. Ptolemy
    4. Strabo

    Option: B

  2. Rain occurring due to rising warm-moist air mass over stable cold air mass, is called as –

    Options:
    1. Convectional
    2. Monsoonal
    3. Orographic
    4. Cyclonic

    Option: D

  3. As compared to its southern section, salinity in the north Caspian sea, is –

    Options:
    1. Lower
    2. Higher
    3. Equal
    4. Fluctuating

    Option: A

  4. Which is not related to weathering, is

    Options:
    1. Mud flow
    2. Dust well
    3. Solifluction
    4. Exfoliation

    Option: B

  5. The concept of conurbation is ascribed to –

    Options:
    1. Sauer
    2. Zipf
    3. Gottman
    4. Geddes

    Option: D

  6. The one, which is not a landlocked state, is –

    Options:
    1. South Korea
    2. Andorra
    3. Bolivia
    4. Laos

    Option: A

  7. Which of the following is a basic component of the Gravity- model, referred in transport studies?

    Options:
    1. Maintenance of cost and time
    2. Transportation cost and volume of goods
    3. Transport and maintenance cost
    4. Population and distance between two places

    Option: D

  8. Sardar Sarovar Project may be classified in which of the following type of planning –

    Options:
    1. Imperative planning
    2. Indicative planning
    3. Allocative planning
    4. Manifest planning

    Option: C

  9. The range, making boundary between Arunachal Pradesh and Myanmar, is –

    Options:
    1. Kohima
    2. Naga
    3. Patkai
    4. Manipur

    Option: C

  10. Makalu peak lies. in –

    Options:
    1. Himadri
    2. Lesser Himalayas
    3. Siwalik
    4. Pir Panjal

    Option: A

  11. Contour map is a/an –

    Options:
    1. Isopleth map
    2. Choropleth map
    3. Chorochromatic map
    4. Nomenclature map

    Option: A

  12. The plate margin along the zone of subduction is called as –

    Options:
    1. Transcurrent
    2. Convergent
    3. Divergent
    4. Shear

    Option: B

  13. Tonga ocean deep is located in

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

    Option: D

  14. If air temperature is doubled (provided volume remains constant), the absolute humidity in it will –

    Options:
    1. Be doubled
    2. Remain the same
    3. Be half
    4. Be uncertain

    Option: B

  15. Kitab al-Hind” was written by –

    Options:
    1. Ibn Khaldun
    2. Ibn Batuta
    3. Al-Masudi
    4. Al-Biruni

    Option: D

  16. The proponent of the concept of ‘sequent occupance’ was –

    Options:
    1. Lynch
    2. Geddes
    3. Whittlesey
    4. Peet

    Option: C

  17. The economic activity associated with gold-collar worker’ is –

    Options:
    1. Tertiary
    2. Quaternary
    3. Quinary
    4. Primary

    Option: C

  18. The projection, used to represent the Heartland concept, is –

    Options:
    1. Polyconic
    2. Mercator
    3. Mollweid
    4. Sinusoidal

    Option: B

  19. Square root of variance is –

    Options:
    1. Correlation
    2. Median
    3. Mean deviation
    4. Standard deviation

    Option: D

  20. The one, which is not a form of condensation, is –

    Options:
    1. Dew
    2. Frost
    3. Latent heat
    4. Fog

    Option: C