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UGC NET December 2022 Geography Paper II Shift I — Solved Previous Year Questions

95 previous-year questions from UGC NET December 2022 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. Which one of the following geomorphic phenomena moves fastest? · Ans: C
2. How many minimum seismic stations data is required to map the epicentre of an earthquake? · Ans: C
3. Who stated that valley side slope gives a clue to the relative importance of exogenic and endogenic processes? · Ans: B
4. Which one of the following is not directly related to the magnitude of an earthquake? · Ans: B
5. Which atmospheric gas is the primary ingredient of photochemical smog? · Ans: B
6. Which is the correct sequence of the height of the tropopause (in km) over polar areas, over middle latitudes and over the equator? · Ans: A
7. From the Earth's heat budget, out of total incoming radiation, what percent is reflected back to space? · Ans: C
8. Which type of lightning has the potential to cause more damage to life and property? · Ans: B
9. Which one of the following approaches advocates that the most effective philosophical ground for protecting the natural environment is to think in terms of protecting natural beauty? · Ans: D
10. Which one of the following has the maximum biomass in a terrestrial ecosystem? · Ans: D
11. Manufacture of biomass by organisms that eat plants is termed as: · Ans: C
12. In disaster reduction and management, which one of the following is part of the post-disaster stage? · Ans: D
13. Which one of the following measures represents perhaps the most sensitive barometer of the fitness of the social environment for human life? · Ans: D
14. Which one of the following geographers famously stated that population is the point of reference from which all the other elements are observed and derive significance and meaning? · Ans: B
15. Which of the following does not represent a function of the town? · Ans: C
16. Identify the world's leading country in the exports and imports of commercial services in 2021 as per the World Trade Organisation report. · Ans: A
17. Which of the following is not one of the broad five socio-economic themes in the Aspirational Districts Programme? · Ans: D
18. Which one of the following highlighted that an area is poor because it is poor? · Ans: A
19. In which country are magnetite ores mined at Kiruna and Gallivare? · Ans: A
20. In 2021, which country was the leading steel producer and exporter of the world? · Ans: B
21. Technopolises Silicon Forest and Silicon Valley are located near which cities, respectively? · Ans: C
22. In which city did the 27th meeting of the Conference of Parties (CoP-27) of the UNFCCC take place? · Ans: B
23. Considering food security, arrange the following sub-regions of Africa in descending order according to the percentage of Prevalence of Undernourishment in 2018. · Ans: B
24. Which of the following books are written by Alfred Thayer Mahan? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
25. Which of the following countries is not considered a nation-state? · Ans: A
26. Identify the scholar who laid the foundation of the dichotomy of systematic versus regional geography. · Ans: B
27. Who was the author of the 17 volumes of Geographical Treatises? · Ans: C
28. The scientific observations about the size, shape and circumference of the earth were made by Eratosthenes and Hipparchus at which of the following places? · Ans: D
29. Which of the following is not a humanistic geographer? · Ans: D
30. The actual labour productivity of farms was compared with what could have been achieved under optimizing decision-making by farmers acting as rational economic persons. Which of the following geographers conducted this study? · Ans: D
31. The productivity of rice in Punjab depends on the availability of irrigation. Which type of relationship of a system can be explained by the above statement? · Ans: A
32. Which one of the following sets of book and author is wrongly matched? · Ans: B
33. Which of the following information is used in an altimetric frequency graph? · Ans: A
34. Which type of maps are called cartograms? · Ans: C
35. Which of the following Indian language groups matches correctly with its speech area? · Ans: A
36. Which one of the following pairs of gap or pass and connected city is wrongly matched? · Ans: D
37. Which one of the following sets of multipurpose project and associated river is wrongly matched? · Ans: A
38. Which of the following regions lies in the lowest seismic sensitive zone in India? · Ans: A
39. Which of the following sets is wrongly matched? · Ans: B
40. In which of the following atmospheric layers does temperature decrease as altitude increases? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: B
41. Which of the following is or are aquatic ecosystems? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
42. Which of the following are examples of chemical weathering? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
43. Which of the following statements are true about aerosols in the atmosphere? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
44. Which of the following statements are not true about spatial analysis? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
45. Which of the following statements are correct regarding the 1992 Earth Summit? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
46. Which of the following factors may be attributed to urban decline? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
47. Which of the following statements are not correct about forests and forest products? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
48. According to Ullman, the necessary elements of spatial interaction include which of the following? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
49. Which of the following represent the main attributes of jati? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
50. Which of the following criteria is used to study a state by political geographers? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
51. Which of the following statements are correct about the impact of Darwin on geographical thought? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
52. Which of the following statements are correct about the models of Davis and Penck? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
53. Consider the following statements related to resources and infrastructural development in India. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
54. Which of the following correctly represent the main foci of geographical interest in electoral studies? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
55. Which of the following statements are not correct? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
56. Which of the following statements are not correct regarding the concept of growth pole? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
57. Which of the following countries founded the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in 1960? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
58. Which of the following statements are not correct about spatial interaction? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
59. Which of the following statements are correct with reference to Weber's industrial location theory? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
60. Consider the following statements regarding transportation and irrigation in India. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
61. Match List-I (Local wind) with List-II (Type) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
62. Match List-I (Date) with List-II (Celebrated as) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
63. Match List-I (Consumers or decomposers) with List-II (Example) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
64. Match List-I (Work) with List-II (Scholar) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
65. Match List-I (Concept) with List-II (Scholar) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
66. Match List-I (Theory about the origin of tides) with List-II (Scholar) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
67. Match List-I (Tributary) with List-II (River) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
68. Match List-I (Major language) with List-II (Sub-language) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
69. Match List-I (Wind) with List-II (Description) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
70. Match List-I (Statement) with List-II (Expert) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: A
71. Arrange the following principles, concepts or theories of geomorphology in chronological order from old to recent in terms of their inception. · Ans: C
72. Identify the correct sequence of the food chain in a marsh community. · Ans: C
73. Identify the correct sequence of the concentric zones of different land uses from the city centre in Von Thunen's model. · Ans: C
74. Arrange the following countries in descending order of their Human Development Index ranking of 2021. · Ans: D
75. Arrange the following regions in descending order in terms of the proportion of non-religious population in the world. · Ans: B
76. Arrange the following publications in chronological order. · Ans: A
77. Which is the correct sequence of radiation from longest to shortest wavelength? · Ans: B
78. Identify the sequence of clouds in the sky from first to last as a warm front approaches an observer in the middle latitudes. · Ans: A
79. Identify the correct sequence of the major salts in ocean waters, by percentage, in descending order. · Ans: B
80. Arrange the longitudinal fault lines of the Himalayas from south to north. · Ans: B
81. Given below are two statements about ocean salinity. In light of the statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
82. 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
83. Given below are two statements about structuralism. In light of the statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
84. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the most appropriate answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
85. 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
86. In the study of landslide risk, the run out of a landslide determines the rate, travel distance and volume of debris. What is meant by the hazard footprint of a landslide? · Ans: C
87. In the study of landslide risk, the consequences of a landslide mainly depend upon which of the following? · Ans: A
88. In the study of landslide risk, which process exerts a significant and dynamic influence on slope stability? · Ans: D
89. In the study of landslide risk, which of the following are the triggering factors for the occurrence of landslides? · Ans: B
90. In the study of landslide risk, geomorphic risk is defined as which of the following? · Ans: C
91. Thomas Malthus argued that the power of population is far greater than the power of the earth to produce subsistence. According to Malthus, what is the relationship between population growth and the earth's resources? · Ans: A
92. Thomas Malthus held that population would outrun food supply unless checked by famine, disease or war. Which one of the following options best describes the Malthusian perspective on population growth and resources? · Ans: C
93. In Malthus's account of England's history, the Great Plague occurred in which period? · Ans: C
94. In Malthus's account of England's history, what factor or factors were responsible for the deaths of people during the Black Death and the Great Plague? · Ans: D
95. In Malthus's account, improvement in the treatment and control of diseases in England and Europe helped to substantially reduce mortality in which age group of the population? · Ans: B

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