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UGC NET December 2023 Geography Paper II — Solved Previous Year Questions

98 previous-year questions from UGC NET December 2023 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. Kelp forests are which one of the following types of ecosystems? · Ans: C
2. Who among the following was the first to point out the difference in the amount of heat received from the Sun in the equatorial regions as compared with that in the higher latitudes? · Ans: B
3. The Black Forest mountain belongs to which one of the following orogenies? · Ans: B
4. Which one of the following is practiced in the North American Plains? · Ans: B
5. Identify the statement which is NOT correct with reference to diseases. · Ans: A
6. Match List-I (Copper Mines) with List-II (State) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: A
7. Which of the following chemical zones of the atmosphere is located in the outermost sphere from the earth's surface? · Ans: D
8. Match List-I (Approach) with List-II (Focus) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
9. Who among the following divided the world ecosystems on the basis of use of harvest method and net primary production? · Ans: B
10. If the line of regression is a good estimator of the data, the R squared value will be near which one of the following? · Ans: D
11. Match List-I (Scholar) with List-II (Book) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
12. Which one of the following was the first formal book on Geography? · Ans: D
13. 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: B
14. Identify the correct sequence of organisms in the following food chain: Barnacle Larva, Diatoms, Herring and Arrow Worm. · Ans: B
15. Which of the following photographs is used in the analysis of plant and crop diseases, soil and water pollution? · Ans: D
16. Who among the following suggested that since man could not be put to scientific analysis, the study of man should be taken outside the purview of geography? · Ans: D
17. Match List-I (Scale) with List-II (Application) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
18. Which of the following statements are NOT true about the Chi Square Test? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
19. In which of the following types of maps is the growth of a city, as its population and area increase through time, displayed? · Ans: A
20. Arrange the following states of India in descending order of male-female gap in literacy in 2011: Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Sikkim and Gujarat. · Ans: A
21. Identify the correct statements about the process of urbanization. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
22. Consider the following statements about land use changes in India and identify the correct statements. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
23. Identify the correct statements about the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019 report of the FAO. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
24. Identify the correct statements about iron and steel plants of India. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: B
25. Given below are two statements regarding katabatic winds. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
26. Identify the correct statements about ocean currents. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
27. The zone and strata theory of racial classification was propounded by · Ans: C
28. Match List-I (Ethnic Group) with List-II (Country) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
29. The headquarters of the UNFCCC is located at which one of the following places? · Ans: A
30. In which country did 36.1 percent of females in the age group of 15 to 49 have HIV or AIDS, as per the 2022 World Population Data of the UN? · Ans: C
31. Which of the following is NOT correct evidence for global warming? · Ans: B
32. Which one of the following shows an inverted pyramid of biomass? · Ans: D
33. Which one of the following refers to a collaboration between a government, private firms and universities, which may form the basis of the Science and Technology Park structure? · Ans: B
34. Identify the correct statements about Friedmann's core-periphery model. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
35. Arrange the following ICT companies in descending order of their market valuation in 2023: Tata Consultancy Services, HCL Technologies, Wipro Limited and Infosys. · Ans: C
36. Match List-I (Regional Block) with List-II (Headquarter) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
37. Which one of the following is NOT among the five criteria adopted by Whittlesey in the classification of world agriculture types? · Ans: D
38. Identify the correct statements about knowledge based industries. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
39. Who among the following modified Von Thunen's model of land use in 1925? · Ans: A
40. Which of the following sets of statements is correct about droughts in India? Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
41. Identify the correct statements about edge cities. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
42. In the Late Expanding Stage of demographic transition, which one of the following happens? · Ans: C
43. Match List-I (Population pyramid) with List-II (Country) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
44. Who among the following pointed out that a major underlying weakness of voting geography has been the failure to relate it to studies in political geography as a whole? · Ans: C
45. Which one of the following is NOT a glacio-fluvial landform? · Ans: A
46. Arrange the following geographical publications in chronological order: Alternative Geographies, Mapping Desires, General History of the Nature of the Heavens and Kosmos. · Ans: A
47. The Maski Band of Dharwar and Champion reefs bear significant reserves of which one of the following mineral resources? · Ans: D
48. Given below are two statements regarding trade. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
49. Calculate the bifurcation ratio of a river basin when the number of second order segments is 38 and the number of third order segments is 9. · Ans: C
50. Match List-I (Classified codes of air masses) with List-II (Source region properties) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
51. Identify the correct statements about the idiographic versus nomothetic dualism in geography. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
52. Match List-I (Pedogenic regimes) with List-II (Climate) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
53. Identify the correct statements about migration theories. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
54. Air transport plays an important role in most parts of Canada, Alaska, large parts of Russia and most parts of Australia because · Ans: D
55. Match List-I (Longitude) with List-II (Sea or Gulf) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
56. Which of the following sets of two cyclones rotate or spin in a counter-clockwise direction? · Ans: B
57. Arrange the following census years in descending order of decadal population growth rate in India: 1961 Census, 1971 Census, 1991 Census and 2011 Census. · Ans: A
58. 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
59. Identify the correct statements about Myrdal's cumulative causation theory. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
60. Which one of the following is the weight of water vapour per unit weight of air? · Ans: B
61. Which one of the following is based on the role of a city as a centre of financial power and high technology infrastructure? · Ans: B
62. Given below are two statements regarding constitutional provisions for the protection of the environment in India. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
63. Consider the following statements related to feminism and identify the correct statements. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
64. Identify the WRONG statements about geopolitical concepts. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
65. Identify the correct statements about tides and ocean deposits. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: C
66. Arrange the following religions in descending order on the basis of number of adherents in the world: Hindus, Muslims, Christians and Buddhists. · Ans: D
67. Identify the correct statements about forest resources of India. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: A
68. Identify the correct statements about the climatic conditions of India. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
69. Which one of the following is located in the Indian Ocean? · Ans: A
70. Consider the following statements with regard to the soil profile. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
71. Identify the correct statements about world population in 2022. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: B
72. The outer core is differentiated from the inner core on the basis of variations in the velocity of which one of the following waves? · Ans: D
73. The international boundary of USA and Canada does NOT pass through which one of the following lakes? · Ans: B
74. Arrange the following objects in ascending order of reflectance in the optical thermal infrared region from 8.00 to 9.20 micrometers: Grass, Concrete, Sandy loam soil and Clear water. · Ans: D
75. Which one of the following represents a degree of metamorphism between slate and schist? · Ans: A
76. Identify the WRONG statements with reference to natural disasters in India. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: B
77. Arrange the following adopters of innovations in descending order on the basis of their percentage share of all adopters: Innovators, Late majority, Laggards and Early adopters. · Ans: D
78. Stoddart suggested four main themes from Darwin's work that contributed to contemporary geographical thought. Which of these themes leads towards both scientific determinism and possibilism in contemporary geographical concepts? · Ans: C
79. The study of an ecocline representing the changing conditions across an ecosystem boundary is known as · Ans: C
80. In 2011, among the Scheduled Indian languages, which one was at rank 4 in terms of total number of speakers? · Ans: D
81. In the multiple nuclei model, which one of the following zones is not continuous with the city and develops at the outer margin in isolation? · Ans: D
82. Arrange the following industrial location theories in chronological order: Alfred Weber's theory, Allen Pred's theory, Edgar Hoover's theory and Walter Isard's theory. · Ans: B
83. Which one of the following sets of two passes are located in Sikkim? · Ans: B
84. 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: C
85. Which one of the following is NOT a tributary of the river Krishna? · Ans: A
86. Identify the correct statements about primary production in ecosystems. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
87. Consider the following statements related to insolation. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: D
88. Identify the correct statements about UN-REDD+. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: · Ans: B
89. As per the plate tectonics passage, the San Andreas fault is an example of which one of the following? · Ans: B
90. As per the plate tectonics passage, the movement of plates is gradually increasing the distance between which one of the following pairs? · Ans: A
91. As per the plate tectonics passage, which one of the following is NOT an evidence in support of sea floor spreading? · Ans: C
92. As per the plate tectonics passage, the Andes mountains are located at the convergent zone of which one of the following? · Ans: D
93. As per the plate tectonics passage, which one of the following is located on a divergent plate boundary? · Ans: D
94. As per the remote sensing passage, which one of the following is NOT part of the data acquisition process? · Ans: B
95. As per the remote sensing passage, which one of the following belongs to the Earth Observation System component of the Indian satellites? · Ans: D
96. As per the remote sensing passage, the red band is an example of which one of the following? · Ans: A
97. As per the remote sensing passage, the atmospheric path length is shortest in the case of which one of the following? · Ans: C
98. As per the remote sensing passage, which one of the following is NOT an airborne platform? · Ans: D

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