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1. An alternate expansion and contraction
develop a series of joints both parallel and
perpendicular to exposed surface and rock
tends to break. This process may be
appropriately termed as
A ) Exfoliation
B ) Shattering
C ) Block disintegration
D ) Granular Disintegration
The principle of Uniformitarinism
orooounded bv
A ) W. M. Davis
B ) Hutton
C ) Penk
D ) W. D. Thornburry
are not depositional features.
A ) Beaches
B ) Cliffs
C ) Bars
D ) Spits
4. The Narmada and the Tapi Rivers form
type of delta.
A ) Bird's Foot
B ) Arcute
C ) Estuarine
D ) Cuspate
5. The length of the Equator is about 40,000 kms.
and the velocity of rotation is about 1,700 kms'
per hour. What would be the velocity
(kms./hour) of rotation at the poles?
A ) 0 (Zero)
B) 850
c ) 1,70o
D ) 3,400
is a subsurface warm
current flowing between 30 and 360 South
Latitudes, at a distance of about 180 kms. from
the Peruvian Coast.
A ) Kuroshio Current
B ) Alaska Current
C ) BrazilCurrent
D ) El-Nino or Counter Current
7. The transitional zone between two ecosystems
is called,
A ) Biome
B ) Ecotone
C ) Biolope
D ) Sere
2.
The main
increase
IS
of
cause
in
of 'Green House Effect'
the percentage
3. A ) Nitrogen in the air.
B ) Carbon dioxide in the air.
C ) Phosphoric acid in the air.
D ) Nitric acid in the air.
The term 'ecosystem' was first used by
A) E. P. Odum
B ) A. G. Tanslay
C ) Ernst Haeckel
D ) F. R. Fosberg
10. The study of the migration in a particular region
reveals the
A ) density patter
B ) mobility pattern
C ) morbidity pattern
D ) population change
GEGRAPHY-39 lP.r.olwas/were not associated
with the grov'rth of rural settlements.
A ) Blovet
B ) Royburman
C) Ramchandran & Srivastava
D ) G. K. Zipf
12. Flood prone areas generally
settlements.
have
A ) Wet Point
B ) Dry Point
C ) Strong Point
D ) Weak Point
13. lndia registered
at the
a negative population grovuth
Census.
A) 1911
B ) 1921
c ) 1931
D ) 1951
has reached the stage of
population transition where both the birth and
death rates have declined.
A ) lran
B ) Mexico
C ) Philippines
D) Sweden
15.Winter rainfall in north-west lndia is caused by
the
A)
B)
c)
D)
16. The Himalayan pass, Nathu La, lies on the
trade route.
A ) lndo-Nepal
B ) lndo-Bhutan
C ) lndo-Tibetan
D ) lndo-Myanmar
11.
14.
Retreating Monsoon
South-West Monsoon
Western Disturbances
Convectional Overturning
GEOGRAPHY-39
17.Teak and Sal are characteristic species
type of vegetation.
A ) Tropical Dry Deciduous
B ) Tropical Moist Deciduous
C ) Tropical Moist Evergreen
D ) Wet Temperate
18. Rishra town is associated
industry.
with
A ) Cotton textile
B ) Jute textile
C ) Woollen textile
D ) Sugar
19. Mineral fuels are found in
type of rocks.
A ) Sedimentary
B ) lgneous
C ) Metamorphic
D ) lntrusive lgneous
20. Heat Budget
maintained by
A ) reflection of incoming solar radiation
B ) absorption by the Earth
C ) refraction by the dust particles
D ) insolation in short waves and terrestrial
radiation
winds occur where cold,
heavy air flows down the slopes of the inland
mountains and the ice plateaus.
A ) Anabatic
B ) Dense
C ) Katabatic
D ) Unslope
22. Spring tides occur twice a month at
A ) New moon and full moon
B ) First and new moon
C ) Full moon and the last quarter
D ) First and third quarter of moon
of
on the surface of the Earth is
i
21.23. When warm and cold currents
is/are formed.
meet,
A ) Clouds
B ) Rain
C) Fog
D ) Frost
24. chiefly constitute
atmosphere.
A ) Oxygen and hydrogen
B ) Oxygen and nitrogen
C ) Oxygen and carbon dioxide
D ) Oxygen and helium
25. Trade winds are so named because they
A ) Encourage trade
B ) Blow persistently over a trodden path,
especially over the ocean
C ) Follow on trading routes in the days of the
sailing ships
D ) Blow from the coasts of the trading nations
26. is not included in West Asia.
A ) Afghanistan
B ) lsrael
C ) lraq
D ) Egypt
27.The gorges of lndus, Sutlej and Alaknanda
indicate
A ) Rivers are older than the mountains
B ) Rivers are flowing through soft rock strata
C ) lncrease in height of the Tibetan Plateau
D ) Coming of rivers due to Earth movements
28. A multipurpose valley project
A ) Helps in checking floods
B ) Helps in conservation of water and soil
C ) Helps in irrigation and development of
hydroelectricity
D ) Serves allthe above purposes
the
GEGRAPHY.39 lP.r.oI
29. The most important commercial forests in lndia
are the
A ) Tropical green forests
B ) Tropical deciduous forests
C ) Coniferous forests
D ) Tropical arid forests
30. Laterite soil in lndia is found in the
A ) Western Ghats
B ) Ganga Valley
C ) Malwa Plateau
D ) Punjab Plains
form of settlement develops
along either side of roads, rivers or canals.
A ) Circular
B ) Cross-shaped
C ) Linear
D ) Square
31.
32. Jobs that involve
innovations are
activities.
A ) Primary
B ) Secondary
C ) Quinary
D ) Quaternary
high degrees and level of
known as
33. When the weight of the raw material is greater
than the finished product, the Material lndex
would be
A ) Less than one
B ) More than one
C ) Equal to one
D ) No specific trendtype of climate is most
suitable for growing Cocoa.
A ) Equatorial
B ) Mediterranean
C ) Monsoon
D ) Moist Temperate
35. Von Thunen's Agricultural Location Model
contains number of rings.
A) five
B) six
C ) seven
D ) eight
36. The industrialised
the World are
and developed countries of
largely confined to the
A ) North tropic of Cancer
B ) South Tropic of Capricorn
C ) Between Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn
D ) North of Equator
37. ln an aerial photograph what would be the RF
if the focal length = one feet; altitude above sea
level = 11,000 ft.; and elevation of ground =
1,000 feet
A) 1:1,10,000
B) 1:11,000
C) 1:10,000
D) 1: 1,000
is the most suitable method
to depict intensity of cropping in different units
of a region.
A ) Choropleth
B) Dot
C ) lsopleth
D ) Chorochromatic
39. The line of regression of y on x and the line of
regression of x on y
A ) always intersect
B ) sometimes do not intersect
C ) sometimes intersect
D ) intersect at origin only
GEOGRAPHY-39
34.
38.
40. t-Test is not used for testing the
A ) significance of mean of small sample
B ) significance of means of two small
independent samples
C ) significance of correlation coefficient in
smallsample
D ) goodness offit
41.The RF of the Toposheet Number 72 Fl11
would be
A) 1:10,00,000
B) '1 :2,50,000
C) 1 :1,00,000
D) 1:50,000
42. Though Logical Positivism became widely
accepted as a working principle in Human
Geography only in the 1950s, the seeds of
'Positivist Science' were established by
in 1925 through his essay
entitled "'Morphology of Landscape'.
A ) August Comte
B ) Carl Sauer
C ) Alfred Hettner
D ) Vidalde la Blache
is considered the originator
of dualism between physical and human
geography.
A ) Carl Ritter
B ) Elisee Reclus
C ) George Gerland
D ) Oscar Peschel
developed a methodology for
the study of human communities through
focused attention on "Place-Work-Folk".
A ) Carl Sauer
B ) Jean Brunhes
C ) Mark Jefferson
D ) Patrick Geddes
43.
44.45. Humboldt studied the rocks of the Andes
Mountains and disproved the earlier theory of
sedimentary origin of all rocks proposed by
A ) Buache
B ) Bonpland
C ) Davis
D ) Werner
46. The people in the plains of North lndia from
Sind to Assam acquired different branches of
family of languages.
A ) Austric
B ) Dravidian
C ) lndo-European
D ) Sino-Tibetan
47. Majority of the central lndian tribes belong to
racialstock.
A ) Mediterranean
B ) Mongoloid
C ) Nordic
D ) Proto-Australoid
is a polytheistic religion.
A ) Christianity
B ) Hinduism
C ) Muslim
D ) Zoroastrianism
49. Metal using cultures belong to
period.
A ) Palaeolithic
B ) Mesolithic
C ) Neolithic
D ) Chalcolithic

50. The disciplines of Social Geography and
are concerned with the
dimension of human relationship in Nature.
A ) Anthropology
B ) Archaeology
C ) Linguistics
D ) SociologyRouoh work