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UGC NET July 2016 Geography Paper III — Solved Previous Year Questions

74 previous-year questions from UGC NET July 2016 Geography Paper III (UGC NET) — each with the correct answer and a clear explanation. Use it as an answer key, or practise the full paper below.

1. A drainage pattern which is not related to the structure of the region is known as · Ans: D
2. Crickmay, while disagreeing with Davis, supplemented the peneplain with the term · Ans: B
3. Which one of the following is strongly presumptive of a fault-line scarp? · Ans: D
4. 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
5. 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
6. Match List-I (Author) with List-II (Title of the book) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
7. Which one of the following arrangements of the Pleistocene ice ages is in the correct chronological order? · Ans: B
8. 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
9. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? · Ans: D
10. Which one of the following statements about the polar jet stream is not true? · Ans: C
11. Supercooled water is water which is · Ans: C
12. A place located at a higher altitude generally experiences which of the following, compared with a low-elevation place in an adjoining valley? · Ans: D
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: C
14. The actual amount of water vapour in a given quantity of air is greatest for which of the following temperature and relative-humidity combinations? · Ans: A
15. What happens when the Chinook wind is drawn down the leeward slopes of a mountain range? · Ans: C
16. Match List-I (Humidity term) with List-II (Definition) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
17. The sea attained its present level during which geological period? · Ans: A
18. The pyramid of biomass is inverted in the case of which one of the following? · Ans: D
19. Which one of the following percentages of the world's biodiversity does India contribute? · Ans: D
20. Which one of the following sea-water temperatures is favourable for the formation of coral reefs? · Ans: A
21. Which one of the following countries has the world's longest coastline? · Ans: D
22. The term 'microtidal' has been adopted to refer to a spring tidal range of · Ans: D
23. The endemic species of India are mainly found in · Ans: C
24. Match List-I (Author) with List-II (Book) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
25. Who was the author of the book 'The Nature of Geography'? · Ans: D
26. Arrange the following scholars in the correct chronological order and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (I) Aristotle (II) Eratosthenes (III) Plato (IV) Strabo · Ans: D
27. Match List-I (Author) with List-II (Book) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: A
28. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? · Ans: C
29. Which one of the following authors stated 'there are no necessities but everywhere possibilities, and man as master of these possibilities is the judge of their use'? · Ans: C
30. Who defined geography as human ecology? · Ans: D
31. Match List-I (Geographer) with List-II (Contribution) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
32. Match List-I (States) with List-II (Literacy Rates as per Census of India, 2011) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
33. Match List-I (State/UTs) with List-II (Decadal Growth Rate of Population as per Census of India, 2011) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
34. Match List-I (Type of Village) with List-II (Definition) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
35. 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
36. Which one of the following principles explains the importance of transport costs, as it maximises the number of central places on straight-line routes? · Ans: A
37. Which one of the following criteria is used by the Census of India 2011 to define a town? · Ans: B
38. In which year did M. Jefferson examine the size relationship between the primate city and the next largest cities in a study entitled 'The Law of the Primate City'? · Ans: D
39. Match List-I (Mineral Ore) with List-II (Mineral) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
40. 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
41. Match List-I (Agricultural systems after Whittlesey) with List-II (Country) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
42. 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
43. Which one of the following authors identified three basic factors affecting interaction between regions: complementarity, intervening opportunity and transferability? · Ans: D
44. A dolichocephalic human race has a cephalic index value of · Ans: A
45. Throughout the nineteenth century, Russia was interested in acquiring Turkey mainly because Russia wanted to · Ans: B
46. Which one of the following statements is not true about Humanism in geography? · Ans: C
47. Carta Marina is · Ans: C
48. The book 'Polar Geopolitics' is written by whom of the following? · Ans: A
49. The statement 'social processes explain the spatial organization' pertains to · Ans: B
50. Match List-I (Scholar) with List-II (Contribution) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
51. 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
52. Which one of the following Five Year Plans of India adopted the Harrod-Domar growth model? · Ans: D
53. Which one of the following contributors made refinements to W. Christaller's central place theory by including the concept of 'city rich' sectors and 'city poor' sectors? · Ans: D
54. Which one of the following indicators is not concerned with the Human Development Index (H.D.I.)? · Ans: B
55. 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
56. Match List-I (Type of Region) with List-II (Definition) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
57. Match List-I (Type of Town) with List-II (Cities) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
58. 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
59. The famous Makrana marble mines are located in which one of the following Indian States? · Ans: B
60. The Environment (Protection) Act in India was passed when the government was headed by · Ans: D
61. Which one of the following sequences of physical features is correct, moving from the plains towards the mountains? · Ans: D
62. Match List-I (Indian Tribe) with List-II (State) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
63. Match List-I (Hill Name) with List-II (State) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: C
64. Match List-I (River) with List-II (Urban Settlement) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
65. Match List-I (Satellite Sensor) with List-II (Panchromatic IFOV) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: B
66. The monthly rainfall of a place for June 2010 was 10 to 20 cm on 6 days, 20 to 30 cm on 20 days and 30 to 40 cm on 4 days. Which one of the following is… · Ans: C
67. Which one of the following diagrams can be used to represent non-spatial attribute data? · Ans: B
68. Which one of the following correlation coefficients is mismatched with its value? · Ans: B
69. 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
70. 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
71. Match List-I (Type of Scale) with List-II (Example) and select the correct answer from the codes given below: · Ans: D
72. Which one of the following codes correctly depicts landscape models? (I) DEM (II) DRG (III) DLG (IV) DTM · Ans: C
73. Which one of the following codes is correct to show the optimal location to profitability in different spatial cost and revenue situations in diagram given below? · Ans: C
74. How many number of intersecting links between six nodes are shown in the given figure? · Ans: D

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