Tue. Jun 25th, 2024

UGC NET December 2012 Paper III

  1. The Western Coast of Australia records higher salinity due to

    Options:
    1. Ocean currents
    2. Wind direction
    3. Dry weather condition
    4. All the above

    Option: C

  2. The highest salinity is found in the

    Options:
    1. Baltic Sea
    2. Okhotsk Sea
    3. Mediterranean Sea
    4. Red Sea

    Option: D

  3. Which of the following statements about synecology is correct ?

    Options:
    1. It is a study of individual species in relation to its environment.
    2. It is a study of complex interrelationship of biotic communities.
    3. It is essentially habitat ecology.
    4. It is mainly social ecology.

    Option: B

  4. Organic deposits made by living or dead organisms that form rock elevation like a ridge are known as

    Options:
    1. Corals
    2. Conyons
    3. Reefs
    4. Guyots

    Option: C

  5. Which one of the schools of thought first developed possibilism ?

    Options:
    1. German School of Geography
    2. Russian School of Geography
    3. French School of Geography
    4. British School of Geography

    Option: C

  6. Which one of the following is not a supporter of the theory ofdeterminism ?

    Options:
    1. Wolfgang Hartake
    2. R. Hartshorne
    3. O.H.K. Spate
    4. All the above

    Option: D

  7. Who among the following noted first the regularity between the sizes of cities and their rank ?

    Options:
    1. Zipf
    2. Jefferson
    3. Auerbach
    4. Christaller

    Option: C

  8. Who among the following is an advocate of idealism in geography ?

    Options:
    1. Guelke
    2. Gilbert
    3. Samuels
    4. Pocock

    Option: A

  9. The statement that ‘a method by which one can rethink the thought of those whose actions one seeks to explain’ refers in human geography to the philosophy of

    Options:
    1. Phenomenology
    2. Idealism
    3. Existentialism
    4. Positivism

    Option: B

  10. Which among the following was responsible for the radical transformation of spirit and purpose of geography ?

    Options:
    1. Post Modernism
    2. Humanism
    3. Structuralism
    4. Quantification

    Option: D

  11. Which among the following was one of the forces responsible for continental drift according to Wegner ?

    Options:
    1. Tidal Force
    2. Convection Currents
    3. Tensional Force
    4. Compressional force

    Option: A

  12. Which one of the following States / Union Territories recorded the highest density of population as per census 2011 ?

    Options:
    1. Chandigarh
    2. West Bengal
    3. Kerala
    4. Maharashtra

    Option: A

  13. If economic landscape of a region is dependent on ‘transport principle’ of central place system, with the population size of 4.0 lakh of itshighest order town, which one of the following population size of next lower order town is correct ?

    Options:
    1. 3.0 lakh
    2. 2.0 lakh
    3. 1.0 lakh
    4. 0.5 lakh

    Option: C

  14. Who defined settlement geography first time incorporating the concept of settlement pattern, house types and field system ?

    Options:
    1. Meitzen
    2. Stone
    3. Huntington
    4. Trewartha

    Option: A

  15. The sparsely populated countries have slow growth of industries because

    Options:
    1. of shortage of skilled labour
    2. small population does not provide a good market
    3. of both (A) and (B)
    4. agriculture is more developed than industries

    Option: C

  16. Which one of the following countries has the highest density of population ?

    Options:
    1. Bangladesh
    2. Pakistan
    3. Sri Lanka
    4. India

    Option: A

  17. The size of population in lower age group is large in countries where

    Options:
    1. Birth rate is high
    2. Birth rate is low
    3. Death rate is high
    4. Death rate is low

    Option: A

  18. The base of the age-sex pyramid is broad and apex is narrow in

    Options:
    1. Developed countries
    2. Developing countries
    3. Under developed countries
    4. None of the above

    Option: B

  19. Which one of the following market locations is optimal in given diagram of industrial landscape

    Options:
    1. c
    2. b
    3. d
    4. a

    Option: B

  20. Which one of the following matches in case of shifting cultivation is not correct ?

    Options:
    1. Ladang Indonesia
    2. Ray Vietnam
    3. Milpa Mexico
    4. Tamrai Brazil

    Option: D