Sat. Sep 28th, 2024

UGC NET June 2014 Paper III

  1. 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) : 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.

    Option: A

  2. The concept of primate city was advanced b

    Options:
    1. Jefferson
    2. Zift
    3. Mumford
    4. Sjoberg

    Option: A

  3. In the acceleration stage of urbanisation the urban population constitutes :

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

    Option: B

  4. A process of population deconcentration away from large urban settlements to non-metropolitan areas is termed as :

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

    Option: C

  5. Who among the following was a strong supporter of Ritter’s teleological ideas ?

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

    Option: A

  6. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below

    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

    Option: B

  7. Which one of the following statements is not true about Humanism in Geography.

    Options:
    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.

    Option: C

  8. Match List-I and List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below

    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

    Option: B

  9. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below

    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

    Option: A

  10. 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) : 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.

    Option: C

  11. In the development of Quantitative Revolution, a new field of study called ‘Social Physics’ stating that dimensions of society are analogous to the physical dimensions and include numbers of people, distance and time was introduced by

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

    Option: A

  12. The statement Systematic geography must move into theoretical spheres and Regional Geography into a search for generic and not unique studies was made by

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

    Option: C

  13. 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) : 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.

    Option: A

  14. Consider the following statements :

    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 ?

    Options:
    1. 1 and 3
    2. 2 and 4
    3. 2 and 3
    4. 1 and 4

    Option: A

  15. Xerophytes can tolerate and stand against :

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

    Option: D

  16. The objective of Kyoto Protocol was to reduce green house gas emission by :

    Options:
    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

    Option: D

  17. Montreal Protocol’ is related to

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

    Option: B

  18. 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) : 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.

    Option: A

  19. Some heat is received by the atmosphere even after Sunset from :

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

    Option: D

  20. Which one of the following is not correct ?

    Options:
    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.

    Option: C