UGC NET June 2013 Paper III

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1. Al-Biruni, Al-Idrisi, Ibn Battuta, Ibn Khaldun
2. Al-Idrisi, Ibn-Khaldun, Al- Masudi, Al-Biruni
3. Ibn-Khaldun, Al-Masudi, Al- Biruni, Al-Idrisi
4. Al-Masudi, Ibn-Battuta, Ibn- Khaldun, Al-Biruni

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Assertion (A) : Humanistic Geography rejects positivism and quantification in geography.

Reason (R) : Humanistic Geography emphasizes the role of the human agency and its creativity in the construction of place, space and landscape.

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1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the 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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1. It is the geographical area within which living organisms develop
2. It is the economic and cultural activity of peoples outside their enclosed settled area
3. It deals with the relations between human society as a spatial organization and its physical setting
4. It speaks ‘geopolitik’ and studies space from the view point of State

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1. (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.
2. (ii) and (iii) are correct.
3. (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct.
4. (i) and (iii) are correct.

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1. Bernhard Varenius
2. Philip Cluverius
3. Immanuel Kant
4. Sebastian Munster

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1. A. Penck
2. H. Lautensach
3. C. Ritter
4. A. Hettner

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1. (i) and (iii) are correct.
2. (iii) and (iv) are correct.
3. (i) and (iv) are correct.
4. (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.

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1. Vidal de la Blache
2. Carl Ritter
3. Alfred Hettner
4. Friedrich Ratzel

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List I(American Geographers)	List II(Contributions)
a. Carl Sauer	i. Laws of primate city
b. H.H. Barrows	ii. Cycle of erosion
c. W.M. Davis	iii. Geography as human ecology
d. M. Jafferson	iv. Morphology of landscape

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

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Assertion (A) : Behavioural Geography is now becoming much closer to a constructivists or transactionlist epistemology, as propounded by neo-Kantian philosophers and psychologists.

Reason (R) : The Geographers like White, Kirk, Gold and Kates have made signal contributions for behavioural movement in Geography

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

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1. 1987
2. 1997
3. 1990
4. 1985

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List I	List II
a. Bhuj Earthquake	i. 2002
b. RIO-World Summit	ii. 5th June
c. World Environment Day	iii. 2012
d. Sandy Storm	iv. 2001

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

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1. Tinsley
2. Taylor
3. Ernst Haeckel
4. Jeans Brunhes

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1. Terrigenous
2. Cosmogenous
3. Biogenous
4. Hydrogenous

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1. Tides
2. Cyclones
3. Sub-marine earthquakes
4. Shrinking of the earth's crust

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1. Submergence of subaerially eroded coast
2. Submergence of glaciated coast
3. Fluvial deposition
4. Marine erosion

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1. Orissa coast
2. Malabar coast
3. Konkan coast
4. Coromandel coast

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1. Marine terraces
2. Coral reefs
3. Cycle of erosion
4. Tides

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1. Boven
2. Muir
3. Peterson
4. Bergeron

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1. Fall of temperature after precipitation
2. Heating and cooling of an ascending or descending air through compression of expansion.
3. Heating of ascending air
4. Cooling of descending air

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1. Entrapment of pollutants causing heavily smog
2. Pleasant weather conditions
3. Unusually unstable air
4. Unusually stable air

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1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (a) and (d)
4. (b) and (d)

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1. Deflection force
2. Geostrophic force
3. Frictional force
4. Gravitational force

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