Thu. Jan 9th, 2025

UGC NET November 2017 Paper II

  1. Mohorovicic discontinuity’ marks the boundary between :

    Options:
    1. Continental shelf and Ocean crust
    2. Asthenosphere and lithosphere
    3. Crust and the upper mantle
    4. Core and the mantle

    Option: C

  2. The process in which one plate slides beneath another is known as :

    Options:
    1. Advection
    2. Subduction
    3. Convergence
    4. Convection

    Option: B

  3. San Andrean fault is a :

    Options:
    1. Transform fault
    2. Converging fault
    3. Spreading fault
    4. Submergent fault

    Option: A

  4. Which one of the following is a fluvio-glacial deposit ?

    Options:
    1. Pediplain
    2. Kame terrace
    3. Floodplain
    4. Loess plain

    Option: B

  5. Who among the following scholars has given the Subsidence Theory relating to coral-reefs ?

    Options:
    1. Dally
    2. Davis
    3. Dutton
    4. Darwin

    Option: D

  6. Which one of the following ranges of percentage of increase of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1750 is correct ?

    Options:
    1. 5 - 10%
    2. 10 - 15%
    3. 15 - 30%
    4. More than 30%

    Option: D

  7. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below :

    Assertion (A) : The shift of ITCZ is greater over sea than over land.

    Reason (R) : The land surface gets more heated than water bodies

    Options:
    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 a correct explanation of (A)
    3. (A) is true, but (R) is false
    4. (A) is false, but (R) is true

    Option: D

  8. The UVI (Ultra Violet Index) was developed in :

    Options:
    1. 1950s
    2. 1990s
    3. 2000s
    4. 2010s

    Option: B

  9. Match List-I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below :

    List-I(Gasses) List-II(% of Gasses in Atmosphere)
    (a) N2 (i) 0.934%
    (b) Ar (ii) 0.039%
    (c) O2 (iii) 78%
    (d) CO2 (iv) 21%
    Options:
    1. (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
    2. (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
    3. (iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
    4. (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)

    Option: C

  10. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below :

    Assertion (A) : The subpolar low of the Southern Hemisphere is nearly continuous.

    Reason (R) : The land mass is less in the Southern Hemisphere than in the Northern Hemisphere.

    Options:
    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 a correct explanation of (A)
    3. (A) is true, but (R) is false
    4. (A) is false, but (R) is true

    Option: A

  11. Which one of the following regions is with high ocean water salinity ?

    Options:
    1. Equatorial
    2. Polar
    3. Subtropical
    4. Subpolar

    Option: C

  12. Which one of the following is responsible for the greatest movements of all the tides ?

    Options:
    1. Size of the Ocean
    2. Shape of the continents
    3. Gravitational attraction
    4. Salinity of the Ocean

    Option: C

  13. Which one of the following percentages of distance from earth surface is correct for ‘perigee’ of Moon than ‘apogee’ ?

    Options:
    1. 2%
    2. 5%
    3. 8%
    4. 12%

    Option: D

  14. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the code given below :

    Assertion (A) : The western sides of oceans are always warmer than the eastern margins.

    Reason (R) : The movement of major ocean currents is in the western sides.

    Options:
    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 a correct explanation of (A)
    3. (A) is true, but (R) is false
    4. (A) is false, but (R) is true

    Option: A

  15. Which one of the following terms is appropriate for the mixing zone of two biomes ?

    Options:
    1. Environment
    2. Ecology
    3. Ecosound
    4. Ecotones

    Option: D

  16. Who among the following defined Geography as human ecology ?

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

    Option: C

  17. Who among the following defined Geography as discovery of predictive patterns during Quantitative revolution period ?

    Options:
    1. P. Hagget
    2. W. Bunge
    3. D. Harvey
    4. R.J. Chorley

    Option: B

  18. Who among the following correlated the colour of ocean water and its salinity ?

    Options:
    1. Al Masudi
    2. Al Maqdisi
    3. Ibn - Khaldun
    4. Ibn - Sina

    Option: A

  19. Which one of the following pairs does not match correctly ?

    Options:
    1. P. Hagget - Geography a modern synthesis
    2. G.P. Marsh - Explanation in Geography
    3. P.E. James - All possible worlds
    4. Abler, Adams and Gould - Spatial organizations

    Option: B

  20. Match List-I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below :

    List – I(Ideology) List – II(Proponent)
    (a) Probabilism (i) Humboldt
    (b) Stop-and-go determinism (ii) Ritter
    (c) Systematic Geography (iii) Griffith Taylor
    (d) Modern Geography (iv) O.H.K. Spate
    Options:
    1. (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
    2. (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
    3. (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
    4. (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)

    Option: C