Tue. Jun 25th, 2024

UGC NET December 2008 Paper II

  1. Which sector of the economy is least necessary for sustainable economic development ?

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

    Option: D

  2. Which one of the following is considered non-renewable resource ?

    Options:
    1. Water Resource
    2. Animal Resource
    3. Coal Resource
    4. Forest Resource

    Option: C

  3. Who evolved the method of measurement of agricultural efficiency ?

    Options:
    1. S. S. Bhatia
    2. R. L. Singh
    3. S. P. Chatterjee
    4. Enayat Ahmad

    Option: D

  4. Which one of the following is an ideal combination for the establishment of heavy industries :

    Options:
    1. Coal”Iron”Water
    2. Coal”Electricity”Market
    3. Coal”Electricity”Bank
    4. Coal”Cotton”Bank

    Option: A

  5. Which one of the following philosophies was advanced by August Comte ?

    Options:
    1. Empiricism
    2. Positivism
    3. Marxism
    4. Humanism

    Option: B

  6. The concept of sequent occupance was advocated by :

    Options:
    1. H. H. Barrows
    2. C. D. Harris
    3. D. S. Whittlesey
    4. Richard Hartshorne

    Option: D

  7. Regional Planning aims at :

    Options:
    1. Development of agriculture
    2. Balanced development
    3. Development of heavy industries
    4. Development of small scale industries

    Option: B

  8. The concept of counter-magnet is associated with :

    Options:
    1. Western Ghats plan
    2. South East resource region
    3. Rayalseema plan
    4. National Capital Region Plan

    Option: D

  9. 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) : Ratzel’s concept of ‘Lebensraum’ was based on the idea that ‘State’ is similar to the ‘Organism’.

    Reason (R) : Ratzel was a determinist and was under the influence of Darwin’s theory of ‘Survival of the fittest’.

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

    Option: B

  10. The soils which originate in the humid region due to the accumulation of large amounts of organic matter are known as :

    Options:
    1. Desert soils
    2. Peat soils
    3. Red soils
    4. Laterite soils

    Option: B

  11. The areas lying to the east of the Western Ghats covering Karnataka, interior Tamil Nadu, Western Andhra Pradesh and Central Maharashtra are known as :

    Options:
    1. Sub-tropical Steppe Region
    2. Tropical Steppe Region
    3. Tropical Savana
    4. Tropical Rainy Climate

    Option: B

  12. Which State of India is the largest producer of Soyabean ?

    Options:
    1. Rajasthan
    2. Gujarat
    3. Uttar Pradesh
    4. Madhya Pradesh

    Option: D

  13. Which State of India is the largest producer of wheat ?

    Options:
    1. Punjab
    2. Haryana
    3. Uttar Pradesh
    4. Madhya Pradesh

    Option: C

  14. Which State of India has the highest productivity of wheat per hectare ?

    Options:
    1. Bihar
    2. Uttar Pradesh
    3. Punjab
    4. Haryana

    Option: C

  15. Which one of the following places of India was worst affected by Tsunami in 2004 ?

    Options:
    1. Nagapattinam
    2. Kanyakumari
    3. Vishakhapattanam
    4. Chennai

    Option: A

  16. Which one of the following is small scale map :

    Options:
    1. Cadastral map
    2. SOI Topographical map
    3. World Atlas map
    4. Tamil Nadu State map

    Option: C

  17. In remote sensing, there are four different types of resolution characters. Identify the correct order in which they are used :

    Options:
    1. Radiometric ” Spatial ” Spectral ” Temporal
    2. Spatial ” Spectral ” Radiometric ” Temporal
    3. Temporal ” Spectral ” Radiometric ” Spatial
    4. Spectral ” Temporal ” Spatial ” Radiometric

    Option: C

  18. Which one of the following is a measure of dispersion ?

    Options:
    1. Median
    2. Geometric Mean
    3. Standard deviation
    4. Arithmetic Mean

    Option: C

  19. Who was the originator of the regression analysis ?

    Options:
    1. Clark and Evans
    2. Karl Pearson
    3. Spearman
    4. Francis Galton

    Option: D

  20. Arrange the following river systems of India in sequence from North to South :

    Options:
    1. Godavari ” Mahanadi ” Kaveri ” Krishna
    2. Mahanadi ” Godavari ” Krishna ” Kaveri
    3. Krishna ” Kaveri ” Godavari ” Mahanadi
    4. Kaveri ” Godavari ” Mahanadi ” Krishna

    Option: B