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UGC NET December 2020 June 2021 Geography Paper II Shift I — Solved Previous Year Questions

98 previous-year questions from UGC NET December 2020 June 2021 Geography Paper II Shift I (UGC NET) — each with the correct answer and a clear explanation. Use it as an answer key, or practise the full paper below.

1. Who among the following conceived the idea of a shipping canal between India and Sri Lanka? · Ans: C
2. Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
3. The present day spatial distribution of Buddhism is highly concentrated among which of the following groups of regions? · Ans: B
4. Which one of the following refers to the mature stage of a thunderstorm? · Ans: B
5. Identify the processes of vorticity. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
6. Which of the following statements are correct about the benefits of international trade? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
7. Which of the following is a renewable resource? · Ans: D
8. Advocates of Humanistic geography among the following are: Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
9. Which one of the following groups of states or union territories in India recorded a low sex ratio as per Census 2011 data? · Ans: D
10. Which one of the following indicates a population pyramid with a wide base narrowing as the age cohorts progress? · Ans: C
11. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? · Ans: A
12. Which one of the following terms is used for the distance between the trough and the crest of a wave? · Ans: C
13. Which one of the following industries generates the highest amount of waste water in the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh? · Ans: B
14. Which of the following climatologists advocated the hekistothermal concept in their climatic classification? Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: · Ans: B
15. Which of the following natural characteristics are associated with the dry monsoon forests of India? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
16. In which one of the following water bodies is the salinity lowest? · Ans: D
17. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: A
18. Which one of the following rivers is not a tributary of the Yamuna river? · Ans: D
19. The phenomenon of wind gap is associated with: · Ans: C
20. Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
21. Which of the following waterfalls pertain to the Narmada river? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: B
22. Which of the following terms are not associated with the sling psychrometer? Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
23. Arrange the following layers of vegetation on the basis of their height in ascending order. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
24. The theory of plate tectonics does not help to explain the origin and location of which one of the following? · Ans: C
25. Match List-I (Tropical disturbances) with List-II (Wind speed in circulation in kilometre per hour) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
26. Which of the following are very high risk areas of earthquake? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
27. Arrange the given years in descending order on the basis of the number of people affected by natural disasters in India. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
28. Which of the following statements are correct regarding the Doabs of Punjab? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
29. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: · Ans: B
30. Stop and go determinism was propounded by: · Ans: B
31. Which one of the following statements was not considered by Malthus while stating the Malthusian theory of population growth? · Ans: C
32. Which of the following local winds is not related with drainage winds? · Ans: D
33. Which of the following states recorded literacy rates in descending order as per Census 2011 data? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
34. Which one of the following is the correct sequence of oceanic currents of the Northern Pacific Ocean? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
35. Which one of the following groups of states or union territories recorded a very high population growth rate during 2001 to 2011 as per data given by the Census of India? · Ans: D
36. Yardangs are the creation of erosion by: · Ans: B
37. The per minute solar radiation received on one square centimetre at the outer surface of a plane is: · Ans: B
38. Who among the following developed the concept of Mental Map? · Ans: A
39. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
40. Consider the following statements about population migration and choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
41. Which one or more of the following statements is or are incorrect regarding waves? Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
42. Using the locational triangle, the concept of the least transport cost location was introduced by: · Ans: D
43. Consider the following types of maps and choose the correct sequence from larger scale to smaller scale from the options given below: · Ans: C
44. Arrange the following states in ascending order on the basis of the percentage of tribal population in 2011. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
45. Who among the following formalized the concept that there exists a relationship between spatial organization and national development? · Ans: A
46. Which of the following statements are incorrect about the origin and growth of the international tourism industry? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
47. Which one of the following is the correct chronological sequence of the German school of geographers? · Ans: D
48. Which of the following is the correct sequence in the development of geographic thought? · Ans: A
49. Match List-I (Soil type) with List-II (Places of occurrence) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
50. Which of the following statements about international trade in the post globalisation phase are correct? Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
51. Match List-I (Proponent) with List-II (Philosophy of geography) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
52. The San Andreas Fault is an example of: · Ans: A
53. The most important factor responsible for the localization of high tech firms in the Silicon Valley of California is: · Ans: C
54. The first meteorological satellite was: · Ans: B
55. Singularities pertaining to the recurrence of anticyclonic weather are associated with which area of the globe? · Ans: C
56. Which of the following statements are correct related to population studies? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
57. Which one of the following is incorrect about agro industrialization? · Ans: D
58. Who among the following scholars examined the regional and geographical implications of the growth pole theory earlier propounded by Perroux? · Ans: D
59. Match List-I (Thinker or scholar) with List-II (Theory, model or strategy) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
60. Match List-I (Land forms) with List-II (Agents of gradation) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
61. A researcher wants to study the relationship of family size to income. He or she classifies the population into different income slabs and then takes a random sample from selected slabs. Which one of the following techniques is… · Ans: C
62. Match List-I (Cultural terms) with List-II (Definition) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
63. Arrange the following in a spatial order starting from the equator. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
64. Who among the following scholars coined the term permafrost? · Ans: B
65. Which one of the following depicts the correct demographic equation of population growth? · Ans: B
66. The Belize barrier reef is located between: · Ans: C
67. Which one of the following methods is used by researchers for reducing bias of scale while compositing several indicators? · Ans: D
68. Which one of the following groups of landforms is produced by erosion? · Ans: B
69. The lateral planation theory of pediment formation was propounded by: · Ans: C
70. Match List-I (Urban terms) with List-II (Definitions) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: A
71. In a thematic map, which one of the following methods is used to record the presence of a phenomenon and its spatial pattern, distribution and dispersion? · Ans: D
72. What is the total duration of time required to complete the two cycles of high and low tides at any place? · Ans: D
73. Match List-I (Transport network density measures) with List-II (Definition) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
74. Match List-I (Theories of origin of tides) with List-II (Propounded by) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
75. The volume, nature and direction of global trade is influenced by which of the following? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: B
76. The geo strategic model in political geography was propounded by: · Ans: B
77. Who among the following geographers focused on man centred geography? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
78. In the four stages of the demographic transition theory, the stage in which the birth rate continues to be high but the death rate declines rapidly is: · Ans: C
79. Which one of the following is not a process of cultural change? · Ans: D
80. Which of the following are methods of load movement in sediment transportation in the ocean? Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
81. Consider the following statements about currents in the Indian Ocean and choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: B
82. Geography in 17 volumes was authored by: · Ans: C
83. Read the statements carefully and find out the incorrect one associated with GIS. · Ans: C
84. Identify the cryogenic indicators of palaeoclimates. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: B
85. Identify the terrestrial disasters. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
86. Match List-I (Whittlesey's agricultural region) with List-II (Name of country) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
87. Indian states arranged on the basis of road length in 2017 are given below. Choose the correct order from the options given below: · Ans: A
88. A frequency table gives the number of weather stations in each temperature class in degrees Celsius as follows: 0 to 10 has 1 station, 10 to 20 has 2, 20 to 30 has 3, 30 to 40 has… · Ans: D
89. A frequency table gives the number of weather stations in each temperature class in degrees Celsius as follows: 0 to 10 has 1 station, 10 to 20 has 2, 20 to 30 has 3, 30 to 40 has… · Ans: A
90. A frequency table gives the number of weather stations in each temperature class in degrees Celsius as follows: 0 to 10 has 1 station, 10 to 20 has 2, 20 to 30 has 3, 30 to 40 has… · Ans: D
91. A frequency table gives the number of weather stations in each temperature class in degrees Celsius as follows: 0 to 10 has 1 station, 10 to 20 has 2, 20 to 30 has 3, 30 to 40 has… · Ans: C
92. A frequency table gives the number of weather stations in each temperature class in degrees Celsius as follows: 0 to 10 has 1 station, 10 to 20 has 2, 20 to 30 has 3, 30 to 40 has… · Ans: B
93. The usefulness of geography as a universal science was demonstrated by: · Ans: C
94. The concepts of determinism and possibilism emerged from the integrated study of the man and nature relationship carried out by geographers of which two traditions? · Ans: D
95. Who were the first to use the word geography? · Ans: C
96. Which of the following is a recent development in geographic studies? · Ans: D
97. Which major development in geographic studies during the recent period changed the direction of its growth? · Ans: C
98. What will be the median of the distribution represented in the given graph? · Ans: B

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