Wed. Jan 8th, 2025

UGC NET June 2012 Paper II

  1. Gross Cultivated Area divided by Net Sown Area is known as

    Options:
    1. Agricultural efficiency
    2. Crop diversification
    3. Crop concentration
    4. Crop intensity

    Option: D

  2. Which one of the following may be categorized as footloose industry ?

    Options:
    1. Cement
    2. Ship building
    3. Electronic components
    4. Cotton textile

    Option: C

  3. The ‘Administrative Principle’ in Christaller’s ‘Central Place Theory’ refers to

    Options:
    1. K = 3
    2. K = 4
    3. K = 7
    4. K = 9

    Option: C

  4. The ‘Range of a Good’ refers to

    Options:
    1. The maximum distance which people have to travel to purchase a good or service.
    2. The variety of goods available at a market place.
    3. The maximum demand to make the service or good viable.
    4. The maximum population necessary for survival of a function.

    Option: A

  5. Which one of the following is the important factor in Rural outmigration in India ?

    Options:
    1. (Agricultural inefficiency
    2. Population growth
    3. Lack of Basic services in rural areas
    4. Unemployment

    Option: D

  6. Which of the following States in India is passing through the stage of Demographic Transition which entails low fertility and low mortality ?

    Options:
    1. Assam
    2. Haryana
    3. Punjab
    4. Tamilnadu

    Option: D

  7. Which one of the following metropolitan cities has registered the largest population in 2011 census ?

    Options:
    1. Chennai
    2. Delhi
    3. Kolkata
    4. Mumbai

    Option: D

  8. Who defined Geography as human ecology ?

    Options:
    1. Schaefer
    2. Hartshorne
    3. Richthofen
    4. Barrows

    Option: D

  9. Who among the following emphasized on the behavioral environment in Geography ?

    Options:
    1. Burton
    2. Gregory
    3. Kirk
    4. Johnston

    Option: C

  10. Which one of the following statements is not correct ?

    Options:
    1. The concept of areal differentiation is related with ideographic approach.
    2. The concept of areal differentiation is related with nomothetic approach.
    3. The exponent of the concept of areal differentiation was Richard Hartshorne.
    4. The concept of areal differentiation is related with chorology.

    Option: B

  11. Which one of the following pairs does not match correctly

    Options:
    1. P. Haggett : Geography : A modern synthesis
    2. P. E. James : All possible worlds
    3. G. P. Marsh : Explanation in Geography
    4. Abler, Adams & Gould : Spatial organisation

    Option: C

  12. Flat topped sea mounts are known as

    Options:
    1. Shoals
    2. Reefs
    3. Guyots
    4. Banks

    Option: C

  13. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched

    Options:
    1. Autotrophs : Take energy from inorganic sources and fix it into energy rich organic compound
    2. Heterotrophs : Obtain their energy from living organism
    3. Herbivores : Organisms that consume plants and animals
    4. Detrivores : Obtain their energy from dead organism

    Option: C

  14. Domestication of plants and animals was started in

    Options:
    1. Paleolithic period
    2. Mesolithic period
    3. Neolithic period
    4. Pre-paleolithic period

    Option: C

  15. The cold current flowing along the coast of Chile and Peru is known as

    Options:
    1. Agulhas
    2. EL-Nino
    3. Humbolt
    4. Canary

    Option: C

  16. 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) : Stable air resists vertical movement and unstable air ascends freely because of its own buoyancy.

    Reason (R) : When stable air is forced aloft the clouds that form are widespread and have little vertical thickness.

    Options:
    1. (A) is correct but (R) is wrong.
    2. (A) is wrong but (R) is correct.
    3. Both (A) and (R) are correct.
    4. Both (A) and (R) are wrong.

    Option: C

  17. Which one of the following is not a mechanism of energy transfer ?

    Options:
    1. Conduction
    2. Advection
    3. Radiation
    4. Ablation

    Option: D

  18. The unit of air pressure measurement is

    Options:
    1. Degree
    2. Isobars
    3. Metres per second
    4. Hecta Pascal

    Option: D

  19. Air movement in the troposphere is caused by

    Options:
    1. Solar wind
    2. Convective current
    3. Gravitational force
    4. Air pressure

    Option: B

  20. Most of the details of world’s topography belongs to the

    Options:
    1. Pre-cambrian era
    2. Paleozoic era
    3. Mesozoic era
    4. Cenozoic era

    Option: D