CBSE UGC NET GEOGRAPHY PAPER 2 JUNE 2015 MCQ'S

CBSE UGC NET GEOGRAPHY PAPER 2 JUNE 2015 MCQ'S

CBSE UGC NET 2015 GEOGRAPHY PAPER 2: Answer keys, Solutions

1. Match the list-I and list-II and select the correct answer from the given codes:

List-I (Concepts)              List-II (Proposer)

A) Peneplain                   i) Holmes

B) Uniformitarianism    ii) W.M.Davis

C) Tetrahedral hypothesis iii) Hutton

D) Convectional Current Theory iv) Lothian Green

Codes:

        a)           b)          c)           d)

1)    ii)           iii)          iv)          (i)

2)    iii)           i)           ii)           iv)

3)    i)             ii)          iv)          iii)

4)    iv)           ii)          iii)           i)

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2. Ria is an example of:

1) deposited land features

2) submerged upland shorelines

3) emerged upland shorelines

4) eroded land forms

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3. Who postulated the 'Progressive Wave theory of tides'?

1) C.Darwin

2) William Whewill

3) R.A Haris

4) Daly

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4. Who wrote the book ""Illustration of the Huttonian theory of the earth?

1) James Hutton 

2) John Playfaire 

3) Vidal de laBlache

4) WM Davis

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5. Who postulated the concept of  base level?

1) Walther Pencil

2) W.M. Davis

3) J.W Powell

4) James Hutton

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6. According to single cell circulation model proposed by George Hadley the most important factor causing the Global atmospheric circulation is:

1) the rotation of the earth 

2) the jet stream

3) substance of the equator 

4) temperature contrast between equator and pole.

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7. The westerlies and trade winds are example of '................winds'.

1) Meso scale

2) top scale

3) macroscale 

4) microscale

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8. When water evaporates the energy that was used to evaporate the water:

1) heats up the surrounding air as evaporation takes place

2) will never be available again 

3) is stored as latent heat in the evaporated water molecule 

4) is destroyed

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9. Meteorologists group tropical cyclones into three main categories according to:

1) barometric pressure in the eye of storm 

2) precipitation 

3) diameter of the storm 

4) wind velocity

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10. A given volume of air holds 20 gram of water vapour. At that temperature, the air would be saturat with 80 grams of water vapour. What is the relative humidity?

1) 40%

2) 100% 

3) 25% 

4) 80%

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11)  surface circulation of ocean water is drivin by:

1) resisting force 

2) tidal force 

3) gravitational force 

4) blowing wind 

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12) For coastal sand dune formation, the ideal grain size diameter is:

1) 0.15 mm

2) 0.50 mm

3) 0.25 mm

4) 0.75 mm

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13) Coastal area greatly affected by storm Surge is:

1) Andhra coast 

2) West Bengal Coast 

3) Chennai coast 

4) Kerala coast

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14) how many essential nutrients are required by plants to fulfil their growth requirements?

1) 24

2) 22

3) 20

4) 18

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15) mesophytes are predominated in:

1) Tropical region 

2) sub polar region 

3) temperate region 

4) polar region

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16) who is regarded as the father of human geography?

1) Ratzel

2) Blanche

3) Trewartha

4) Vallaux

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17) Match list-I with list-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:

List-I (Approaches)      List-II (Contributors)

a) Neo- Determinism    i) D.M. Smith

b) Welfare                      ii) Guman Olsson

c) Behavioural              iii) Griffith Taylor

d) Modern Humanist.  iv) William Kirk

Codes:

             a)          b)          c)        d)

1)         i)           ii)           iii)       iv)

2)       iii)           i)            iv)        ii)

3)       iv)          iii)            ii)        I)

4)       ii)            iv)            i)       iii)

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18) Who is the pioneer in commercial geography?

1) H.J Mackinder

2) G.G Chisholm

3) Patrick Geddes

4) O.H.K Spate

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19) which one of the following philosophers did propagate the principle of Unity in Diversity?

1) Carl Ritter 

2) Immanuel Kant

3) Alexander  Von Humboldt

4) O.H.K Spate

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20) To which school of Geography by E.C Sample belong?

1) American school of geography 

2) Russian school of geography

3) British school of geography

4) French school of geography 

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21) Which one of the following is state recorded the lowest decadal growth rate of population 

1) Arunachal Pradesh 

2) Madhya Pradesh 

3) 

4) 

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22) According to census 2011, which is state record at the highest child sex ratio (0-6 years)?

1) Manipur 

2) Mizoram 

3) Meghalaya 

4) Arunachal Pradesh

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23) Out of total population of 121 crore, what was the level of urbanization in 2011 census?

1) 33 % 

2) 32%

3) 30 %

4) 31%

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24) In which one of the cities first city improvement trust was set up?

1) Bombay 

2) Calcutta 

3) Hyderabad 

4) Lucknow

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25) Harwood and Boyce described which term  epigrammatically as "devoted to people, paper work and parcels"?

1) Frame

2) Core 

3) Periphery

4) Fringe

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26) Consider the following statement:

1) Nearly 30% of the petroleum production in the world is from the off shore areas.

2) The exclusive economic zone in the ocean extends upto 100 nautical miles from the coast

3) Only less than 1% of marine area is declared as protected area

4) The largest marine protected area is the Great Barrier Reef 

Which of these statements are correct?

1) (a) and (b)

2) (a), (c) and (d)

3) (a) and (d)

4) (b) and (d) 

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