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UGC NET December 2017 Geography Paper III — Solved Previous Year Questions

72 previous-year questions from UGC NET December 2017 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 pediplain is associated with · Ans: B
  2. The direction of a horizontal line on an inclined rock strata is known as · Ans: D
  3. The premise that present-day processes have been operating throughout geological time is the principle of · Ans: C
  4. Match List-I (Scholar) with List-II (Theory) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  5. 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
  6. Match List-I (Topography) with List-II (Landform) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  7. Match List-I (Author) with List-II (Book) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  8. Which one of the following is the correct average slope of a typical cold front in weather phenomena? · Ans: B
  9. Match List-I (Conference or Report) with List-II (Held in or Published in) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  10. In which one of the following atmospheric layers does temperature remain constant? · Ans: B
  11. Which one of the following is the correct sequence of surface pressure and wind belts from the equator to the poles? · Ans: D
  12. 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
  13. Which one of the following isotherms for the average temperature of the warmest month is generally accepted as the equatorward edge of the tundra climate? · Ans: B
  14. 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: C
  15. Which one of the following types of climate is appropriate for BWh in Koppen's world climate classification? · Ans: A
  16. Which one of the following values is correct for the average freezing point of sea water in Arctic and Antarctic seas? · Ans: C
  17. Match List-I (Plate name) with List-II (Direction of movement) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
  18. During which one of the following periods was the sea level around the world as much as 130 metres lower than today? · Ans: B
  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: · Ans: C
  20. Which one of the following terms is appropriate for plants that endure seasonal climatic fluctuations from year to year? · Ans: A
  21. 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: C
  22. Match List-I (Zoogeographic region) with List-II (Country) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: A
  23. The term 'cultural landscape' was developed by · Ans: B
  24. Who among the following emphasised the behavioural environment in geography? · Ans: B
  25. Who among the following geographers focused on man-centred geography? · Ans: C
  26. Who was the first Greek scholar to calculate the circumference of the Earth? · Ans: D
  27. The view that 'space is socially and culturally constructed' comes under · Ans: D
  28. Match List-I (Geographer) with List-II (School of geography) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
  29. Who wrote the book 'Meteorologica'? · Ans: A
  30. Which one of the following continents recorded the highest density of population as per the United Nations Population Fund 2015 data? · Ans: B
  31. Japan's population pyramid would most likely resemble that of · Ans: C
  32. Developing countries have registered an increase in population despite a significant decline in fertility rates because of which of the following? Select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
  33. A population pyramid with a wide base represents which one of the following? · Ans: B
  34. Which one of the following statements of population threshold for any service is correct? · Ans: C
  35. Match List-I (Term) with List-II (Definition) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
  36. Match List-I (Term) with List-II (Definition) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
  37. Which one of the following does not have a role in the push factors that seem to be operative in rural India? · Ans: D
  38. Who defined a regional growth pole as a 'set of expanding industries located in an urban area, including further development of economic activity throughout its zone of influence'? · Ans: C
  39. Match List-I (Number of likely settlements of different orders) with List-II (K value) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  40. 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
  41. Which activity contributes to water pollution more than any other throughout the world? · Ans: C
  42. Which one of the following ocean routes is the most important and busiest route in the world? · Ans: D
  43. Which one of the following was not assumed by Weber in his least-cost theory? · Ans: A
  44. 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
  45. Who among the following political scholars appealed in 1949 for 'a more geographical political geography'? · Ans: A
  46. Who wrote the book known as 'World Political Geography'? · Ans: A
  47. Match List-I (Tribe) with List-II (Habitat) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: A
  48. The concept of 'cultural landscape' was popularised by · Ans: B
  49. The paradoxical situation of the co-existence of a patrilineal society and the dominating position of women characterises which one of the following? · Ans: A
  50. 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: D
  51. 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
  52. Match List-I (Approach) with List-II (Development index) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
  53. 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
  54. 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
  55. Which one of the following statements is correct in the context of the concept of growth pole and growth centres? · Ans: C
  56. The percentage of decadal growth of population (2001 to 2011) is the highest in which one of the following states? · Ans: D
  57. Which one of the following is responsible for the concentration of slum population in India? · Ans: D
  58. Which one of the following states is the leading producer of coffee in India? · Ans: B
  59. Match List-I (Hydel power project) with List-II (State) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  60. 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
  61. Match List-I (Crop) with List-II (Largest producer state, 2016 to 2017) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
  62. Match List-I (Mountain or range) with List-II (Peak) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
  63. 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: C
  64. Which one of the following phenomenal relationships is depicted by an ergograph? · Ans: D
  65. Which one of the following altitudes belongs to a Sun-synchronous polar orbit? · Ans: C
  66. 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
  67. Consider the following statements about satellites and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
  68. Which one of the following sensors is an active remote sensing sensor? · Ans: D
  69. 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
  70. Locate the following land uses in the multiple nuclei theory of urban structure shown in the figure and match them with the locations marked I, II, III and IV, then select the correct code. A Wholesale and light… · Ans: C
  71. From the transport network graph shown in the figure, select the code that correctly depicts the Diameter Index of the network. · Ans: B
  72. Consider the figures X and Y shown below. Figure X has an RF of 1 to 2,000 with a 2 cm line between A and B, and figure Y has an RF of 1 to 10,00,000 with a… · Ans: C

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