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UGC NET December 2018 Geography Paper II — Solved Previous Year Questions

95 previous-year questions from UGC NET December 2018 Geography Paper II (UGC NET) — each with the correct answer and a clear explanation. Use it as an answer key, or practise the full paper below.

  1. Which one of the following groups of topographical features is entirely the product of erosional processes? · Ans: B
  2. 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
  3. The upper part of the mantle upon which the crust of the Earth floats is known as · Ans: D
  4. Geologically, the oldest rocks in India are from · Ans: A
  5. Which one of the following is responsible for a global change in sea level? · Ans: C
  6. Which one of the following groups of scholars stressed the role of lateral erosion by streams in the formation of pediments? · Ans: D
  7. The Two-Cycle Theory on the origin of limestone caverns was proposed by · Ans: B
  8. Which one of the following features is formed due to tectonic forces? · Ans: D
  9. The Conrad discontinuity is found between the · Ans: B
  10. Match List-I (Author) with List-II (Book) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
  11. Which part of the electromagnetic spectrum causes human skin cancer? · Ans: B
  12. How many calories of heat are required to increase the temperature by 10 degrees Celsius for 1 gram of water? · Ans: B
  13. 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
  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. 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
  16. Identify the correct sequence of cloud formation in ascending order of height. · Ans: D
  17. Match List-I (Type of water drop) with List-II (Fall velocity in km per hour) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: A
  18. 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
  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: D
  20. 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
  21. Which one of the following coasts has a narrow continental shelf? · Ans: D
  22. Which one of the following rocks is associated with 'cratons'? · Ans: A
  23. Match List-I (Mid-ocean ridge) with List-II (Ocean) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: A
  24. Which one of the following numbers denotes the major zoo-geographical regions of the world established by A.R. Wallace? · Ans: B
  25. Which one of the following marine features does not support the speedy growth of coral reefs? · Ans: D
  26. Which one of the following is not an example of 'natural air pollution'? · Ans: B
  27. Which one of the following components is not taken into consideration by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to calculate the Air Quality Index (AQI)? · Ans: A
  28. Which one of the following is correct in relation to a major wave of extinction? · Ans: A
  29. Identify the correct sequence of vegetation belts at different altitudes in the equatorial mountains of East Africa in descending order from top to bottom. · Ans: B
  30. The nomothetic approach in geography emphasises · Ans: C
  31. The concept of paradigm was propounded by · Ans: D
  32. Match List-I (Contribution) with List-II (Author) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: A
  33. The famous text on classical astronomy entitled 'Almagest' was authored by · Ans: C
  34. Match List-I (Book) with List-II (Author) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
  35. Who among the following geographers correlated the colour of ocean water and its salinity? · Ans: A
  36. Who among the following scholars propounded the concept of Time-Space Geography? · Ans: A
  37. Who among the following authored the book 'A Hundred Years of Geography'? · Ans: D
  38. Match List-I (Geographer) with List-II (Contribution) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
  39. 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
  40. Which one of the following statements correctly explains the difference between the Gravity model and the Potential model? · Ans: C
  41. Match List-I (Historical period) with List-II (Duration) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  42. Which one of the following Union Territories was the most urbanised one in 2011? · Ans: D
  43. Match List-I (Term) with List-II (Explanation) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
  44. Match List-I (Model concept) with List-II (Definition) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
  45. Which one of the following groups of states in India recorded more than 40 percent urban population as per the 2011 census? · Ans: A
  46. Which one of the following pairs of demographic parameters represents the population growth rate? · Ans: B
  47. Which one of the following factors correctly determines the boundary between the areas of two competing firms, if the gradients of delivered price and freight rate of the firms' products are the same? · Ans: C
  48. Which one of the following authors initiated the concept of 'isodapanes' in space-economy? · Ans: D
  49. With the outbreak of World War II, the interest in political geography was focused on · Ans: A
  50. Which of the following can be categorised as a primary activity? · Ans: A
  51. Which one of the following economic principles is correct for the organisation of settlements based on K equals 4 in Christaller's central place model? · Ans: C
  52. Which one of the following is correct for the cost-input graph of an industrial production system, at the point of profit-maximising output? · 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: B
  54. Which one of the following terms is generally used to express the relationship between cultural groups and their natural environment? · Ans: A
  55. Which one of the following groups of states of India was ranked as the top three states in the proportion of Scheduled Tribe population to total population according to Census 2011? · Ans: C
  56. Match List-I (Term) with List-II (Definition) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  57. Match List-I (Cultural diffusion) with List-II (Definition) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  58. Which one of the following subjects or functions is listed on the Concurrent List in India? · Ans: C
  59. The concept of Lebensraum gained popularity in political geography following the publication of · Ans: B
  60. The term 'Geopolitics' was coined by · Ans: B
  61. Which one of the following is the most accurate representation of cultural units from the highest to the lowest order? · Ans: C
  62. Who among the following geographers authored the book 'The Geography of State Policies'? · Ans: D
  63. What percentage share of net tax revenue is shared by the national government of India with the states after acceptance of the recommendation of the Fourteenth Finance Commission? · Ans: C
  64. Match List-I (Name of planned town) with List-II (River on which it was planned) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
  65. Which one of the following indices is used to indicate whether the optimal location is closer to either the raw material source or the market? · Ans: A
  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. Match List-I (Macro region) with List-II (Meso region) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  68. During which one of the following Five Year Plans was the regional approach to build new towns and prepare master and regional plans emphasised in India for the first time? · Ans: B
  69. For expediting the development of small and medium-sized towns, the scheme of Integrated Development of Small and Medium Towns (IDSMT) was initiated during the · Ans: B
  70. Which one of the following kinds of towns was not planned and developed during British rule in India? · Ans: B
  71. Which one of the following statements is true about the concept of development? · Ans: C
  72. 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
  73. The major objective behind the identification of five counter-magnet cities outside the National Capital Region (NCR) was as follows. Select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
  74. Which one of the following is the approximate length in thousand kilometres of the Indian coastline? · Ans: C
  75. Which one of the following is not a major industrial centre? · Ans: C
  76. Who among the following classified Indian agriculture into sixty micro-regions, thirteen meso-regions and six macro-regions? · Ans: D
  77. Which one of the following states in India recorded the highest percentage of decadal growth of population during 2001 to 2011 among the given options? · Ans: A
  78. Which one of the following rivers does not form a delta? · Ans: C
  79. Which of the following groups of states recorded Santhal tribe population as per the Census of India, 2011? · Ans: C
  80. Match List-I (Hydro-electric power plant) with List-II (State) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
  81. Match List-I (Soil type) with List-II (State) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  82. Match List-I (Biosphere reserve) with List-II (State) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
  83. Which one of the following plateaus is not a part of the Central Highlands? · Ans: B
  84. Which one of the following variables is correct for dividing a universe of 500 students of a class by their gender and then taking a random sample of the males and a random sample of the females? · Ans: D
  85. Which one of the following features creates a problem in satellite remote sensing data? · Ans: B
  86. Which one of the following processes is the main task for the computer in mapping geographical data? · Ans: D
  87. Which one of the following mapping techniques is correct to show delineated areas having different colours? · Ans: C
  88. Variable Y regresses on variable X with the conditions that the mean of X is 5.50, the mean of Y is 3.50 and the gradient b is 1.50 in the linear regression model Y = a + bX.… · Ans: C
  89. 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
  90. Which one of the following diagrams represents the occupational structure of a population? · Ans: C
  91. Which one of the following aspects could be correctly represented on a contour map? · Ans: B
  92. Which one of the following denotes the lines joining points of equal amount of travel time? · Ans: B
  93. Which one of the following random sampling techniques is more appropriate for homogeneous population groups? · Ans: B
  94. Which one of the following principles is represented by the given figure of Christaller's model, in which a hexagonal market area encloses six surrounding settlements and one central settlement? · Ans: A
  95. In the given graph of economic rent against distance, each of the following categories of urban land use is shown, and one has the highest gradient of its economic rent at 2 km distance. Which one is it? · Ans: C

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