UGC NET November 2017 Paper II

Which one of the following Total Fertility Rate is required to maintain the world’s existing population ?
Options:
1. 3.4
2. 2.1
3. 1.2
4. 4.2
Option: B
Which of the following characteristics are required for any area to be called an urban area according to census of India ?
1. Any place with municipality, corporation, cantonment or notified town area
2. At least 70% of male working population engaged in non-agricultural activities
3. Minimum population of 5000 persons
4. Density of population of 100 persons per square kilometer
Options:
1. (a) and (b)
2. (a), (b) and (c)
3. (a) and (c)
4. (a), (b), (c), (d)
Option: C
Which one of the following is not included in the Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration ?
Options:
1. Most migrants proceeds step by step
2. Most migrants go for short distance
3. Most migrants move from Urban to Rural areas
4. Most migrants are adults
Option: C
Which one of the following is correct statement for Patna city in Bihar and Kolkata city in West Bengal ?
Options:
1. Edge City
2. World City
3. Post Industrial City
4. Primate City
Option: D
Which one of the following principles denotes K-4 of Christaller’s Model of central places ?
Options:
1. Market
2. Administrative
3. Transport
4. Economic
Option: C
Transportation Cost does not play a major role in the location of textile industry because :
Options:
1. Cotton is a weight loosing material
2. Cotton is a weight gaining material
3. Cotton is a pure material more or less equal to the finished material
4. Weight loss in cotton during manufacturing is high
Option: C
Which of the following occupation is classified as a secondary activity ?
Options:
1. Carpenter
2. Coal mixer
3. School teacher
4. Farmer
Option: A
Which of the following does not fall under Intensive subsistence rice cultivation ?
Options:
1. South East Asia
2. Southern China and Japan
3. Nile valley and delta
4. Coastal and delta areas of India
Option: C
Which one of the following group of activities are appropriately labelled for Gold-collar worker ?
Options:
1. Increasing the value of commodities by changing their form
2. Financial, health, entertainment, education, information and data processing services; middle management administrative services; government bureaucrats
3. Chief executive officers and other top management executives in both government and private service
4. Exchanging services and ideas by telecommunication and satisfying the needs of people by changing their location
Option: C
The concept of Lebensraum became popular in the discipline of Political Geography after the publication of :
Options:
1. Political Geography : World Economy, Nation - State and Locality
2. Politische Geographic
3. Geographical Pivot of History
4. Making Political Geography
Option: B
Who propounded the ‘Theory of Heartland’ in Political Geography ?
Options:
1. Smith
2. Spykman
3. Mackinder
4. Haushoffer
Option: C
Cephalic index , used to classify human races is calculated as :
Options:
1. Ratio between the length and breadth of the nose
2. Ratio between the flatness and length of the head
3. Ratio between breadth and length of the head
4. Ratio between the length of the head and weight of the human body
Option: C
Which of the following statements is not true about a state ?
Options:
1. It always has a social or cultural base
2. It has a territorial base
3. It claims internal sovereignty
4. It claims sovereignty in external relations
Option: A
Who coined the term Geopolitics ?
Options:
1. Mackinder
2. Haushoffer
3. Kjellen
4. Spykman
Option: C
Which one of the following writters quoted merely packing together of existing sectoral or departmental plans does not automatically make an integrated plan. A plan becomes integrated only when backward and forward linkages are thoroughly analysed and interlinked in the area of planning are clearly specified ?
Options:
1. S.N. Bhattacharya
2. R.P. Mishra
3. L.K. Sen
4. M.L. Dantwala
Option: D
Which one of the following regions does not constitute the Damodar Valley Region ?
Options:
1. Deltaic Plain of West Bengal
2. Deltaic Plain of Padma River
3. Chotanagpur Plateau
4. Palamau Plateau
Option: B
Match List-I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below :
List-I(Level of Planning) List-II(Scale of map desired)

(a) State (i) Large

(b) District (ii) Cadastral

(c) Block (iii) Medium

(d) Panchayat (iv) Small

a b c d

Options:
1. (iv) (i) (iii) (ii)
2. (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
3. (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
4. (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
Option: D
Which one of the following proposed the definition of regional planning : Regional planning is the process of formulating and classifying social objectives in the ordering of activities in supra-urban space ?
Options:
1. Charles L. Leven
2. Antoni Kuklinski
3. H.W. Richardson
4. John Friedman
Option: D
Which one of the following does not belong to the Exploitive Model of Urban Structure propounded by William Bunge ?
Options:
1. City of Superfluity
2. City of Death
3. Central Business District
4. City of Need
Option: C
National Highway No. 48 in India passes through which of the places ?
Options:
1. Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai
2. Pune, Goa, Coimbatore
3. Agra, Bhopal, Mumbai
4. Pune, Surat, Ahmedabad
Option: D

List-I(Level of Planning)	List-II(Scale of map desired)
(a) State	(i) Large
(b) District	(ii) Cadastral
(c) Block	(iii) Medium
(d) Panchayat	(iv) Small

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UGC NET November 2017 Paper II

Which one of the following Total Fertility Rate is required to maintain the world’s existing population ?

Options:

Which of the following characteristics are required for any area to be called an urban area according to census of India ?

Options:

Which one of the following is not included in the Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration ?

Options:

Which one of the following is correct statement for Patna city in Bihar and Kolkata city in West Bengal ?

Options:

Which one of the following principles denotes K-4 of Christaller’s Model of central places ?

Options:

Transportation Cost does not play a major role in the location of textile industry because :

Options:

Which of the following occupation is classified as a secondary activity ?

Options:

Which of the following does not fall under Intensive subsistence rice cultivation ?

Options:

Which one of the following group of activities are appropriately labelled for Gold-collar worker ?

Options:

The concept of Lebensraum became popular in the discipline of Political Geography after the publication of :

Options:

Who propounded the ‘Theory of Heartland’ in Political Geography ?

Options:

Cephalic index , used to classify human races is calculated as :

Options:

Which of the following statements is not true about a state ?

Options:

Who coined the term Geopolitics ?

Options:

Options:

Which one of the following regions does not constitute the Damodar Valley Region ?

Options:

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

Options:

Which one of the following proposed the definition of regional planning : Regional planning is the process of formulating and classifying social objectives in the ordering of activities in supra-urban space ?

Options:

Which one of the following does not belong to the Exploitive Model of Urban Structure propounded by William Bunge ?

Options:

National Highway No. 48 in India passes through which of the places ?

Options:

Which one of the following proposed the definition of regional planning : Regional planning is the process of formulating and classifying social objectives in the ordering of activities in supra-urban space ?