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UGC NET December 2021 June 2022 Geography Paper II — Solved Previous Year Questions

97 previous-year questions from UGC NET December 2021 June 2022 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 of the following statements are correct about the raster data model in GIS? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
2. Which of the following statements are correct regarding denudation and weathering? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: B
3. 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: C
4. Match List-I (Wind type) with List-II (Wind characteristics) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
5. The report entitled 'Our Common Future' was submitted in 1987 by · Ans: D
6. Match List-I (Minerals or power resources) with List-II (Name of mines) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: A
7. In the expansion of the tourism industry, arrange the following events in the correct chronological order. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
8. Match List-I (Place of earthquake) with List-II (Tectonic environment) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
9. Which ministry of the Government of India looks after census operations in India? · Ans: C
10. Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
11. Which of the following are methods of linear contrast image enhancement? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
12. Which one of the following faults has a greater risk of landslides? · Ans: C
13. In the Gibbs and Martin index of crop diversification, the symbol x refers to · Ans: B
14. Which of the following are defining features of positivism? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
15. Which of the following statements are true? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
16. Which two of the following alphabetical symbols represent the wet tropics climate according to Koppen's climatic classification? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: B
17. The dating and study of annual rings of trees is called · Ans: D
18. Five Indian metros are arranged in descending order of total population. Which one of the following sequences is correct? · Ans: A
19. An ecological succession which begins on a place rich in inorganic contents but poor in organic contents is called · Ans: D
20. A scholar of which origin coined the term permafrost to explain the frozen characteristics of the Siberian soils? · Ans: D
21. According to the Census of India 2011, which sequence gives the top three states in descending order by the size of the Scheduled Tribe population? · Ans: B
22. Which one of the following statements about global population distribution is not correct? · Ans: B
23. Match List-I (Transport network measure) with List-II (Definition) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
24. As per the Census of India 2011, which sequence arranges these Union Territories in descending order of recorded literacy rate? · Ans: A
25. Match List-I (Scholar) with List-II (Concept or term) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
26. Ammonification is an important process in which one of the following cycles? · Ans: C
27. The World Commission on Environment and Development set up by the UN General Assembly in 1983 is also known as · Ans: B
28. Match List-I (Thematic map) with List-II (Data type and example) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
29. 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
30. Which one of the following statistical techniques is used to analyse the interdependence of variables? · Ans: D
31. Which of the following are characteristics of stratovolcanoes? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
32. In 2020-21, India exported poultry products to which of the following countries? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
33. Which sequence arranges the following trace gases in descending order of their concentration in the atmosphere? · Ans: A
34. Niche market tour operators have increased to satisfy specialist holidays, which include which of the following? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
35. 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
36. The Cambay Graben is associated with which one of the following earthquakes? · Ans: A
37. Which one of the following local winds of India is not correctly matched? · Ans: D
38. A regressive population age structure is likely to be encountered in a country which · Ans: A
39. Which of the following statements are correct? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
40. Which of the following are not causes of floods in the Brahmaputra river system? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
41. Which of the following pairs of scholar and contribution are correctly matched? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
42. Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
43. Two of the following ocean currents are responsible for reducing the temperature of the bordering coastal zones. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
44. Which agency is associated with IKONOS remote sensing data? · Ans: A
45. Which sequence arranges the following continents in descending order of current population density? · Ans: A
46. Match List-I (Iron and steel plant) with List-II (Source of iron ore) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
47. Match List-I (Name of soil) with List-II (Area) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: A
48. Identify the types of the origin of the universe as discussed in the cosmology of the Vedas. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
49. Knock knee syndrome, the outward bending of legs from the knees, is mainly caused due to · Ans: A
50. Match List-I (Name of the scholar) with List-II (Principle, law or model) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
51. Which of the following statements about the Heartland theory is true? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
52. Which sequence arranges the following left bank tributaries of the Ganga from west to east? · Ans: A
53. Identify two Swedish scholars who contributed to the field of climatology. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
54. Which one of the following is not a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group? · Ans: A
55. Which of the following oil fields of India are correctly matched? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: B
56. In India the National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring programme was initiated by · Ans: B
57. Which perspective in geography is associated with Ferdinand de Saussure? · Ans: D
58. Which of the following is associated with the international agreement on substances that deplete the ozone layer? · Ans: D
59. Which of the following map and scale pairs are correctly matched? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
60. How does Gunnar Myrdal describe the generation of regional inequalities at the national and international levels in his theory of circular cumulative causation? · Ans: C
61. Which term is used by W. Penck to denote the waning development of landforms? · Ans: D
62. In which one of the following fronts is warm air completely displaced from the ground surface? · Ans: A
63. Who among the following authors proposed the Tourism Area Life Cycle model, illustrating how tourism develops and changes over time in a region? · Ans: B
64. Identify the correct statement from the following. · Ans: B
65. Match List-I (Scholar) with List-II (Theory) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
66. Arrange the stages of the Wilson cycle in their proper sequence. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: B
67. As per nearest neighbourhood analysis, an index value of 2.15 suggests that the settlements are · Ans: D
68. Which one of the following is the boundary line between India and Pakistan? · Ans: C
69. Which one of the following models of the internal structure of the city emphasizes the importance of transport routes? · Ans: B
70. Match List-I (Scale system) with List-II (Data type measured) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: A
71. Which of the following countries have adopted a pro natal population policy? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
72. How is a cultural hearth defined? · Ans: B
73. Arrange the following in the correct sequence of the detritus food chain described by Odum based on mangrove leaves. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
74. Which one of the following terms is not related to the continental drift theory? · Ans: C
75. Which of the following statements are true? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
76. Who has authored the famous book Muqaddimah? · Ans: D
77. What is the debt service ratio? · Ans: A
78. The elements site, situation and association fall in which order of aerial image interpretation? · Ans: D
79. Which one of the following stages in the demographic transition model describes a situation of a high and stable birth rate along with a high and fluctuating death rate? · Ans: C
80. Which one of the following confluences is not correctly matched? · Ans: C
81. Who is the first person to coin the term geopolitics? · Ans: B
82. Which three component indicators are used by M. D. Morris to calculate the Physical Quality of Life Index? · Ans: A
83. The geometrical shape formed by a group of buildings is termed as · Ans: B
84. Which of the following are cumulative atmospheric disasters? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
85. A point data is · Ans: A
86. Which of the following statements are incorrect about Weber's theory of industrial location? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
87. According to the passage on transportation, given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
88. According to the passage on transportation, what is understood by the term friction of space? · Ans: A
89. According to the passage on transportation, what is transportability? · Ans: A
90. According to the passage on transportation, the world witnessed a significant acceleration in the movement of people, goods and information after the second half of the twentieth century. Which of the following are the reasons for this? Choose… · Ans: B
91. According to the passage on transportation, societies have become increasingly dependent on their transport systems for which of the following reasons? · Ans: D
92. According to the passage on the history of geography, the earliest investigation of geographic questions starts with · Ans: D
93. According to the passage on the history of geography, the inductive approach is related with · Ans: B
94. According to the passage on the history of geography, which one of the following is not a feature of the Age of Exploration? · Ans: C
95. According to the passage on the history of geography, who belongs to the mathematical tradition of locating places? · Ans: D
96. According to the passage on the history of geography, who promoted the logic of the general to particular procedure? · Ans: D
97. The map given below shows the passes of the Kashmir Himalayas marked with numbers. Which one of the following gives the correct sequence of the labelled passes in ascending order of their numbers? · Ans: A

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