Wed. Jun 19th, 2024

UGC NET September 2013 Paper II

  1. The premise that present-day processes have been operating throughout geological time is the principle of

    Options:
    1. Continental drift
    2. Uniformitarianism
    3. Earth Systems
    4. Plate Tectonics

    Option: B

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

    List-I List-II
    (a) River (i) Dolines
    (b) Glacier (ii) Inselburg
    (c) Wind (iii) Moraines
    (d) Underground water (iv) Leaves
    Options:
    1. (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
    2. (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
    3. (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
    4. (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)

    Option: A

  3. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given

    List-I (Land Form ) List-II (Agenta of Denudation)
    (a) Monadnocks 1. Wind
    (b) Blind valley 2. Glacier
    (c) Drumlin 3. River
    (d) Dreikanter 4. Ground Water
    Options:
    1. 2 4 1 3
    2. 4 1 2 3
    3. 1 3 2 4
    4. 3 4 2 1

    Option: D

  4. Which of the following pairs of countries receive maximum insolation ?

    Options:
    1. Indonesia and Sri Lanka
    2. Indonesia and Libya
    3. Yemen and Somalia
    4. Canada and Australia

    Option: C

  5. Solid material passes directly into vapour state by means of

    Options:
    1. Condensation
    2. Sublimation
    3. Volatalization
    4. Convection

    Option: B

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

    List-I (Local Winds) List-II (Countries)
    (1) Loo (i) West Africa
    (2) Samun (ii) Former Yugoslavia
    (3) Harmattan (iii) Pakistan
    (4) Bora (iv) Iran
    Options:
    1. (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
    2. (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
    3. (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
    4. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

    Option: B

  7. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched ?

    Cwa and hot summers, dry winters.
    2. Cwb and hot dry summers.
    3. Csb and warm dry summers.
    4. Cfb and warm summers
    Select the correct answer.

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

    Option: B

  8. Radiolarian Ooze are

    Options:
    1. Terrigenous Deposits
    2. Neritic Deposits
    3. Pelagic Deposits
    4. Littoral Deposits

    Option: C

  9. Certain substances are classified as water pollutants, others as air pollutants and still others as land pollutants. Which one of thefollowing pollutes are three parts of our environment ?

    Options:
    1. Fluorocarbons
    2. Smog
    3. Acid rain
    4. Ozone

    Option: C

  10. Ria is an example of

    Options:
    1. Emerged upland shore
    2. Submerged upland shore
    3. Neutral shore
    4. Compound shore

    Option: B

  11. Flat-topped sub-marine mountains are called

    Options:
    1. Sea mounts
    2. Abyssal mounts
    3. Guyots
    4. Sea Volcanoes

    Option: C

  12. Anacondas are largely found in

    Options:
    1. Irrawady Basin
    2. Congo Basin
    3. Orinoco Basin
    4. Amazon Basin

    Option: D

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

    List-I (Natural Vegetation) List-II (Indian States/UTs)
    1. Conifers i. Jharkhand
    2. Evergreen ii. Rajasthan
    3. Xerophytes iii. Andaman Nicobar
    4. Deciduous iv. Jammu Kashmir
    Options:
    1. iii iv i ii
    2. iv iii ii i
    3. ii i iii iv
    4. i ii iv iii

    Option: B

  14. Who among the following did not support the concept of environmental determinism ?

    Options:
    1. Ratzel
    2. Davis
    3. Huntington
    4. None of these

    Option: D

  15. Match the following and find the correct answer from the code :

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

    Option: A

  16. Who wrote the book Airs, Water and Places ?

    Options:
    1. Anaximander
    2. Hippocrates
    3. Eratosthones
    4. Hecateus

    Option: B

  17. The Humanistic Geography aims at ‘Verstehn’, that is

    Options:
    1. Life style of man.
    2. Inter personal relations of men.
    3. Understanding of man in his environment.
    4. Objective experiences of man.

    Option: A

  18. Geographia in 17 volumes was written by

    Options:
    1. Ptolemy
    2. Miletus
    3. Strabo
    4. Ritter

    Option: C

  19. 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 newly emerged industrial cities in India are numerically dominated by both male and female adult population.

    Reason (R) : Human migration is age and sex selective.

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

    Option: C

  20. Which one of the following is not correctly matched ?

    Options:
    1. Exurbanisation Commuter belt grows at the expense of core.
    2. Counterurbanisation Populationloss of ring is more than the urban core.
    3. Reurbanisation Core starts regaining population.
    4. Exourbanisation Labour intensive and export oriented industrialization is the base.

    Option: B