UGC NET December 2011 Paper II

Assertion (A) : Population concentration is largely found in the regions like river basins and coastal plains..

Reason (R) : MConcentration of population is mainly due to availability of basic resources like soil, minerals and water.

Options:

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

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Assertion (A) : The Christian population is relatively numerous in the tribal-hill areas of North- Eastern India.

Reason (R) : Many tribal were converted to Christianity during the British rule.

Options:

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

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Options:

1. Nearness to market
2. Nearness to raw material
3. Nearness to water resource
4. Transport network

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Assertion (A) : Many jute mills in India were closed down after the Independence.

Reason (R) : There is acute shortage of raw materials and also there is shortfall in foreigndemand for jute goods.

Options:

1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is 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. (A) is false, but (R) is true.

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Options:

1. Primary
2. Secondary
3. Tertiary
4. None of these

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Assertion (A) : Agricultural productivity refers to the sum total of land productivity, labourproductivity and capital productivity.

Reason (R) : All of the three components are factors of production.

Options:

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

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Options:

1. Subsequent Boundary
2. Superimposed Boundary
3. Relict Boundary
4. Antecedent Boundary

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Options:

1. Judaism Christianity Islam Sikhism
2. Sikhism Christianity Judaism Islam
3. Islam Sikhism Judaism Christianity
4. Judaism Islam Christianity Sikhism

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List I(Tribes)	List II(States)
(a) Bodo	(i) Chhatisgarh
(b) Garo	(ii) Jharkhand
(c) Gond	(iii) Assam
(d) Santhal	(iv) Meghalaya

Options:

1. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
2. (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
3. (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
4. (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)

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Options:

1. Le Corbusier
2. Ernst May
3. Soria Y. Mata
4. Clarence Perry

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1. incorporates the importance of transportation systems into the evolution of the social structure of the city.
2. is particularly concerned with the concept of ecology.
3. postulates that multiple centers or nuclei are responsible for urban growth.
4. is concerned with directional bias.

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Options:

1. Political Geography
2. Urban Geography
3. Economic Geography
4. Agricultural Geography

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1. Indian model of development
2. Brazilian model of development
3. Korean model of development
4. Russian model of development

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1. Formal region
2. Perceptual region
3. Functional region
4. Vernacular region

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1. Benton MacKaye
2. Fredric le Play
3. F.S. Chapin
4. Carol Aronovinci

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List I(Concept)	List II(Propounder)
(a) Garden Cities	(i) Clarence Perry
(b) New Towns	(ii) Sir Colin Buchanan
(c) Neighborhood	(iii) Ebenezer Howard
(d) Traffic Segregation	(iv) Sir Patrick Abercrombie

Options:

1. (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
2. (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
3. (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
4. (iv) (i) (iii) (ii)

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Options:

1. Growth centre, Growth point, Growth pole, Service centre
2. Growth pole, Growth point, Growth centre, Service centre
3. Service centre, Growth point, Growth centre, Growth pole
4. Growth pole, Growth centre, Growth point, Service centre

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Options:

1. Alluvial soils, Black soils, Red soils, Laterite soils
2. Alluvial soils, Red soils, Black soils, Laterite soils
3. Red soils, Laterite soils, Black soils, Alluvial soils
4. Red soils, Black soils, Laterite soils, Alluvial soils

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Options:

1. West-Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Kerala
2. Uttar Pradesh, West-Bengal, Kerala, Bihar
3. West-Bengal, Bihar, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh
4. Bihar, West-Bengal, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh

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Options:

1. Contours
2. Choropleth
3. Dot method
4. Isopleth

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