Fri. Nov 15th, 2024

UGC NET December 2012 Paper II

  1. The most common salt in the ocean is

    Options:
    1. Calcium chloride
    2. Sodium nitrate
    3. Sodium chloride
    4. Calcium nitrate

    Option: C

  2. The vertical air flow in an anticyclone results in

    Options:
    1. Diversion aloft
    2. Conversion aloft
    3. Diversion both aloft and at the surface
    4. Convergence at the surface and divergence aloft

    Option: B

  3. The percentage of water vapor in the air in the tropical regions may be as high as

    Options:
    1. 4 percent
    2. 10 percent
    3. 30 percent
    4. 50 percent

    Option: A

  4. Which one of the following statements about the polar jet stream is not true?

    Options:
    1. It moves northwards during summer.
    2. It supplies energy to the circulation of surface storms.
    3. Its location roughly coincides with that of the polar front.
    4. Its velocity is greater during

    Option: D

  5. Arrange the solar spectrum in ascending order of its wavelength :

    1. Ultraviolet
    2. Microwaves
    3. X-rays
    4. Television waves
    Options:
    1. (d), (c), (b), (a)
    2. (a), (c), (d), (b)
    3. (c), (a), (b), (d)
    4. (b), (c), (a), (d)

    Option: C

  6. In the process of erosion, the removal of material by solution is called

    Options:
    1. Attrition
    2. Corrasion
    3. Corrosion
    4. Sapping

    Option: C

  7. The term pan plane refers to

    Options:
    1. A level surface formed in the old age of fluvial cycle
    2. A level surface formed by wind erosion
    3. A plain formed by marine action
    4. A plain formed by joining of flood-plains

    Option: D

  8. One of the proponents of the turbidity current theory of the origin of submarine canyons was

    Options:
    1. Daly
    2. Dana
    3. Salis
    4. Gregory

    Option: A

  9. Which of the following pairs is not a correct match of desert and country/continent?

    Options:
    1. Atacama desert South America
    2. Gobi desert Central Asia
    3. Sonoran West Asia desert
    4. Great Victorian Australia desert

    Option: C

  10. Landslides involve

    Options:
    1. Downslope movement of individual rock blocks which is usually not perceptible.
    2. Rapid perceptible movement of relatively dry mass of earth debris or bed rock.
    3. Slow to very rapid movement of water saturated rock debris.
    4. Slow-flowing downslope masses of rock debris saturated with water.

    Option: B