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UGC NET December 2013 Geography Paper III — Solved Previous Year Questions

75 previous-year questions from UGC NET December 2013 Geography Paper III (UGC NET) — each with the correct answer and a clear explanation. Use it as an answer key, or practise the full paper below.

1. The concept of geosynclines was given by · Ans: A
2. The base level concept was postulated by · Ans: B
3. Which one of the following is formed as a result of tectonic forces? · Ans: C
4. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below: · Ans: D
5. 'The present is the key to the past.' This statement was made by · Ans: B
6. Which one of the following was a part of Laurasia? · Ans: B
7. Match List-I with List-II and choose the correct answer using the codes given below: · Ans: A
8. When does an escarpment appear? · Ans: B
9. Identify the fluvio-glacial deposit from the following: · Ans: A
10. Migration from a developed to a less developed region is called · Ans: C
11. 'Space is socially or culturally constructed' is a view under · Ans: C
12. A counter-clockwise atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere is known as · Ans: B
13. The author of the book 'The Unstable Earth' is · Ans: D
14. Which one of the following earthquake waves is the most destructive? · Ans: D
15. The Mediterranean climate is characterized by · Ans: A
16. Insolation reaches the earth's surface in the form of · Ans: A
17. The range of visible wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum is · Ans: A
18. As per Koppen's scheme, the BWhw type of climate is found in · Ans: B
19. The cold, dry wind experienced particularly in winter along the eastern coast of the Atlantic Ocean and in northern Italy is called · Ans: B
20. The atmosphere gets heated mainly by which one of the following? · Ans: D
21. A tropical cyclone was located 500 km south-west of Visakhapatnam. It first moved 250 km in a north-west direction and then suddenly changed direction to the north-east. Which of the following ports would raise the highest danger signal? · Ans: C
22. Which one of the following regions does not receive much rainfall during the south-west monsoon season? · Ans: A
23. In which type of climate does the equiplanation process, that is the reduction of relief to a plain, take place? · Ans: C
24. Winter rainfall in the north-western part of India is mainly due to · Ans: A
25. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct? · Ans: C
26. Match List-I (Names of tropical cyclones) with List-II (Regions) and select the correct answer using the codes given below: · Ans: A
27. The temperature that provides favourable ecological conditions for living coral reefs is · Ans: D
28. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below: · Ans: D
29. Which among the following postulated the subsidence theory related to coral reefs? · Ans: C
30. If a tide occurs at a place at 6 p.m., when will the next tide occur? · Ans: B
31. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below: · Ans: C
32. Which one of the following ecosystem services is not a part of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) report? · Ans: B
33. In which one of the following places in India was the first bird sanctuary set up? · Ans: A
34. 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: · Ans: B
35. Which one of the following indicates the principle of transport in Central Place Theory? · Ans: B
36. 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: · Ans: A
37. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below: · Ans: C
38. Read the Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and find the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
39. Which one of the following stages of the demographic transition model predicts a high birth rate but a low death rate? · Ans: B
40. Match List-I (State) with List-II (rate of literacy in percent at the 2011 census) and select the correct answer using the codes given below: · Ans: B
41. Which one of the following is not an assumption or principle of the concentric zone model of urban land use? · Ans: D
42. Who among the following defined geography as a chorological science? · Ans: C
43. Who among the following propounded the concept of time-space geography? · Ans: A
44. Match List-I (Major proponent) with List-II (Philosophy of geography) and select the correct answer using the codes given below: · Ans: C
45. Which one of the following ports has been developed on a lagoon? · Ans: C
46. Truck farming is associated with · Ans: A
47. The essential feature of shifting cultivation is · Ans: B
48. What is the common practice involved in shifting cultivation? · Ans: C
49. Under the scope of town planning in India, which of the following are covered? Select the correct answer using the codes given below: · Ans: C
50. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below: · Ans: A
51. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below: · Ans: A
52. Who among the following geographers defined the geography of public finance as 'who gets what, where, and at what cost'? · Ans: D
53. Match List-I (Natural parks and wildlife sanctuaries) with List-II (States) and select the correct answer using the codes given below: · Ans: C
54. Which one of the following is not a supervised image classification technique? · Ans: C
55. A meteor is · Ans: D
56. Which one of the following tribes is not correctly matched with its region? · Ans: B
57. Which one of the following regions witnessed the growth of the mighty civilizations of Rome and Greece? · Ans: C
58. Which one of the following is not considered a geographic pattern? · Ans: B
59. Machu Picchu of the Inca civilization is located in · Ans: D
60. In 1919, Mackinder renamed his 'Pivot Area' as the 'Heartland' in the famous book · Ans: C
61. The objectives behind building the planned city of Chandigarh were which of the following? Select the correct answer using the codes given below: · Ans: C
62. Which one of the following sentences is not correct? · Ans: B
63. Several planned cities have been developed in India after independence. Which one of the following is not a post-independence planned city? · Ans: C
64. Which one of the following is not a measure of central tendency? · Ans: B
65. The Indian Remote Sensing Satellite IRS-P4 is also known as · Ans: D
66. Which one of the following states has recorded the lowest human development index? · Ans: A
67. Which one of the following groups of states, which includes the catchment area of the Cauvery river basin, is correct? · Ans: D
68. Which one of the following is a centrographic measure? · Ans: C
69. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below: · Ans: D
70. Which one of the following map scales is a large scale? · Ans: B
71. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct? · Ans: C
72. An original map has an R.F. of 1/50,000 and the new map will have an R.F. of 1/250,000. What is the correct proportion of enlargement or reduction? · Ans: A
73. Which one of the following values of the correlation coefficient (r) is not correctly matched with its degree of relationship? · Ans: D
74. In which of the following years was IRS-1A launched? · Ans: C
75. Which one of the following phenomena is correctly shown in the sketch given below? · Ans: B

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