UGC NET June 2014 Paper III

Assertion (A) : Losch’s model is less restrictive than Christoller’s

Reason (R) : Losch treated each function as having a separate range, threshold and hexagonal hinterland.

Options:

1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanations 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. Jefferson
2. Zift
3. Mumford
4. Sjoberg

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1. More than 70% of the total population of the state
2. 25% to 70%
3. 10% to 25%
4. Less than 10%

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1. Urban dispersal
2. Urban sprawl
3. Counter-urbanization
4. Sub-urbanization

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1. Guyot
2. Peschel
3. Gerland
4. Ratzel

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List I(Philosophical approaches)	List II(Advocates)
i. Idealistic	a. Relph
ii. Phenomenological	b. Harris and Guelke
iii. Radical	c. Smith
iv. Welfare	d. Bunge

Options:

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

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1. Humanism does not treat humans as machines.
2. Humanistic geography gives importance to human awareness, human consciousness and human creativity.
3. Humanists accept the reduction of space and place to geometrical concepts of surface.
4. Humanism developed as criticism against positivism and quantitative revolution.

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List – I	List – II
i. Otto Schluter	a. Political geography
ii. Von Richthofen	b. Das Ausland
iii. Oscar Peschel	c. Major work on China
iv. Friedrich Ratzel	d. Visible content of the landscape

Options:

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

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List I	List II
i. T. Haggerstrand	a. Theoretical Geography
ii. William Bunge	b. Geographic Dissemination of Innovations
iii. Gilbert White	c. Methods of Regional Analysis
iv. Walter Isard	d. Human Reponses to Floods

Options:

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

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Assertion (A) : The major Thrust of Quantitative Revolution is to bring law making, model building and Theorization in Geography.

Reason (R) : After the second world war, young geographers discarded the empirical, descriptive and gazetteer type of Geography by using the mathematical language rather than the language of literature.

Options:

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 wrong.

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1. J. Q. Stewart
2. Edward Ullman
3. W.L. Garrison
4. William Warntz

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1. Richard Hartshorne
2. Issiah Bowman
3. William Bunge
4. Peter Haggett

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Assertion (A) : Oceanic salinity is low in the equatorial region.

Reason (R) : Equatorial region is characterized by heavy rainfall, cloudiness and humidity.

Options:

1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
2. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not 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. Ozone is found mostly in the stratosphere
2. Ozone layer lies 5575 kms. above the surface of the earth
3. Ozone absorbs ultraviolet rays from the Sun
4. Ozone layer has no significance for life on the earth

Which of the above statements are correct ?

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1. 1 and 3
2. 2 and 4
3. 2 and 3
4. 1 and 4

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1. High temperature
2. Severe Cold
3. Humidity
4. The drought Conditions

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1. An average of 10 percent below 1995 level by the year 2010
2. An average of 8 percent below 1998 level by the year 2012
3. An average of 20 percent below 1997 level by the year 2009
4. An average of 5 percent below 1990 level by the year 2012

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Options:

1. Global Warming
2. Ozone Depletion
3. Air Pollution
4. Water Pollution

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Assertion (A) : The growth of grass and other vegetative cover is limited to selvas.

Reason (R) : The separate crowns of trees coalesce and form a thick canopy above the forest floor.

Options:

1. Both (A) andü (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of (A).
2. Both (A) andü (R) are true, but (R) is not correct explanation of (A).
3. (A) is true but (R) is false.
4. (R) is ture but, (A) is false.

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1. Invisible Solar radiation
2. Latent heat
3. Radioactive processes
4. Terrestrial radiation

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1. Cold front is marked with triangular spikes.
2. Warm front is marked with Semicircles.
3. A fast advancing warm front can cause violent lifting.
4. The tornados develop along squall line.

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