Sat. Jun 29th, 2024

UGC NET December 2013 Paper III

  1. Match the following :

    List-I (State) List-II (Rate of Literacy (%) at 2011 census)
    a. Uttarakhand i. 69.7
    b. Chhattisgarh ii. 70.0
    c. Tamil Nadu iii. 60.2
    d. Gujarat iv. 73.4
    Options:
    1. i ii iii iv
    2. ii iii iv i
    3. iii iv i ii
    4. iv iii ii i

    Option: B

  2. Which one of the following is not an assumption or principle of the concentric zone model of urban land case ?

    Options:
    1. Cultural and social heterogeneity of the population
    2. Transport is equally easy, rapid and cheap in every direction within the city.
    3. None of districts is attractive due to differences in terrain.
    4. There is a concentration of heavy industry.

    Option: D

  3. Who, amongst the following, defined Geography as a chorological science ?

    Options:
    1. Ptolemy
    2. Richthofen
    3. Hettner
    4. P.E. James

    Option: C

  4. Who, amongst the following, has propounded the concept of Time Space Geography ?

    Options:
    1. Hagerstrand
    2. Haggett
    3. Johnston
    4. Harvey

    Option: A

  5. Match the following from the codes :

    List-I (Major Proponent) List-II (Philosophy of Geography)
    a. Gibson i. Idealism
    b. Guelke ii. Realism
    c. Peet iii. Behaviouralism
    d. Wright and Kirk iv. Radicalism
    Options:
    1. i ii iii iv
    2. i ii iv iii
    3. ii i iv iii
    4. ii i iii iv

    Option: C

  6. Which one of the following ports has been developed on a lagoon ?

    Options:
    1. Chennai
    2. Mumbai
    3. Kochi
    4. Visakhapatnam

    Option: C

  7. Truck farming is associated with

    Options:
    1. Vegetables
    2. Milk
    3. Cereals
    4. Poultry

    Option: A

  8. The essential feature of shifting cultivation is

    Options:
    1. Rotation of crops
    2. Rotation of fields
    3. Single cropping
    4. Use of plenty of fertilizers

    Option: B

  9. What is the common practice involved in shifting cultivation ?

    Options:
    1. Use of sophisticated machinery
    2. Large scale use of fertilizers
    3. Utilization of poor soils through ploughing / fallowing
    4. Maximum use of animal power

    Option: C

  10. Under the scope of town planning in India is covered :

    1. Urban renewal
    2. Planning of urban amenities and facilities
    3. Building of new towns
    4. Building of metropolitan cities
    Options:
    1. 1 and 3 are correct.
    2. only 1 is correct.
    3. 1, 2 and 3 are correct.
    4. 2, 3 and 4 are correct.

    Option: C

  11. Match the List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :

    List-I List-II
    a. Rivers i. Sand stone
    b. Settlements ii. Gale
    c. Winds iii. Levees
    d. Rocks iv. Satellite
    Options:
    1. iii iv ii i
    2. iv iii i ii
    3. ii i iv iii
    4. i ii iii iv

    Option: A

  12. Match the List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below :

    List-I List-II
    a. Falkland current i. Warm current
    b. Norwegian current ii. Cold current
    c. Florida current iii. Atlantic Ocean
    d. Okholsk current iv. Kamchetka Peninsula
    Options:
    1. ii iii i iv
    2. i ii iv iii
    3. iii i ii iv
    4. iv iii i ii

    Option: B

  13. Who has, amongst the following geographers, defined Geography of Public Finance ‘who gets what, where, and at what cost’ ?

    Options:
    1. R.J. Chorley
    2. David Harvey
    3. P. Claval
    4. R.J. Bennett

    Option: D

  14. Match the List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below :

    List-I(Natural Parks & Wild Life Sanctuaries) List-II (States)
    a. Nandan kanan i. Maharashtra
    b. Kaziranga ii. Madhya Pradesh
    c. Bandhavgarh iii. Odisha
    d. Melghat iv. Assam
    Options:
    1. i ii iii iv
    2. ii iii iv i
    3. iii iv ii i
    4. iv i iii ii

    Option: C

  15. Which of the following is not a supervised image classification technique ?

    Options:
    1. Parallelopiped classifier
    2. Minimum distance to mean classifier
    3. Neural network analysis
    4. Gaussian maximum likelihood classifier

    Option: C

  16. A meteor is

    Options:
    1. Comet without a tail
    2. Detached piece of an asteroid
    3. Tiny star
    4. Piece of matter which has entered the earth's atmosphere from outer space

    Option: D

  17. Which one of the following tribes does not correctly matched ?

    Options:
    1. Batwa and Congo Basin
    2. Ruwala and Central Iran
    3. Inuit and Canada
    4. Yuklagir and Siberia

    Option: B

  18. Which one of the following regions witnessed the growth of mighty civilizations of Roman and Greek ?

    Options:
    1. Temperate region
    2. Savanna region
    3. Mediterranean region
    4. Tundra region

    Option: C

  19. Which of the following is not considered a geographic pattern ?

    Options:
    1. Centralized
    2. Distributive
    3. Linear
    4. Random

    Option: B

  20. Machu Picchu of Inca civilization is located in

    Options:
    1. Argentina
    2. Brazil
    3. Columbia
    4. Peru

    Option: D