BRAIN TREE

GEOGRAPHY

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION – 2005

SUGGESTED ANSWER KEY

TEST BOOKLET – C

Questions start with

1. Which of the following faults has been shown in the figure given above ?

a) Reverse Fault b) Normal fault

c) Strike fault d) Step fault

Ans : b

2. Folds in which one limb inclines moderately……. The slope is almost vertical are known as

a) Isoclinal b) Monoclinal

c) Recumbent d) Asymmetrical

Ans : d

3. Sedimentary rocks are formed when sediments……. Process known as

a) Crystalisation b) Sedimentation

c) Solidification d) Lithification

Ans : d

4. Which one of the following periods…… Dinosaurs and the increase in flowering plants and reptiles ?

a) Jurasic b) Triassic

c) Cretaceous d) Permian

Ans : c

5. Which one of the following statements is correct ?

Plateaus are the product of

a) Mature stage of cycle of erosion

b) Youth stage of cycle of erosion

c) Old stage of cycle of erosion

d) Rejuvenation of the old mountain

Ans : d

6. Match List-I ( Major Biome ) List-II ( Physical Characteristic )

A. The northern most of the 1.Floristically poor

temperate formations ( i.e., a continuous belt

across North America and Northern Eurasia )

Ans : a

7. Match List-I ( Soil Forming Process ) List-II ( Related Characteristic )

A. Composition of true soil 1. Sticky soil formation

B. Origin of in-organic particle 2. Steeper slope

Ans : b

8. Match : List-I ( Ocean Current ) List-II ( Name of Ocean )

A. Agulhas current 1. North Atlantic

B. El Nino current 2. South Atlantic

Ans : b

9. Which one of the following ….. given salts in sea water decreasing order ?

a) Magnesium chloride – Sodium chloride – Magnesium sulphate –Calcium sulphate.

b) Magnesium sulphate – Magnesium chloride- Calcium sulphate – sodium chloride.

Ans : c

10. What are the causes for adiabatic temperature changes in the atmosphere ?

a) Convection changes in the atmosphere ?

b) Latent heat of condensation

c) Expansion and compression of the air

d) Partial absorption of solar radiation by the atmosphere

Ans : c

11. Consider : The Circum Pacific belt is highly prone to the occurrence of earthquakes because it is a zone of

1. Young folded mountain

2. Active volcanoes

3. Divergent plate boundaries

4. Convergent plate boundaries

Ans : c

12. Match : List- I ( Environmental Degradation ) List-II ( Constituent Causing Degradation )

A. Acid rain 1. Nitrogen

B. Automobile 2. Carbon

Ans : c

13. Match List-I ( Ocean Deposit of Organic Remain) List-II ( Origin of Organic Remain )

A. Neritic remains 1. Shells of planktonic molluscs

B. Pelagic remains 2. Microscopic plant shells

Ans : b

14. Which one of the following…. Order of the distance from the coast ?

a) Abyssal plain – continental shelf-continental slope – continental rise

b) Continental shelf-continental slope-abyssal plain-continental rise

Ans : c

15. Which one of the following…… perpendicular to the beds of the sedimentary rocks ?

a) Dyke b) Sills c) Lapilli d) Breccia

Ans : a

16. Consider :

1. New Zealand has very mild winters owing to its oceanic situation and only the extreme north has very cold winters.

2. In New Zealand, the situation of the mountain chain produces much sharper climatic contrasts between east and west than in a north – south direction.

Ans : b

17. Consider :

1. The Network of Indian Railways is spread over 80,000 Route Kilometres ( RKm).

2. More than 50% of RKm. Network of the Indian Railways is electrified.

Ans : a

18. Which one of the following…..not correct ?

a) Europeans emigrated into the densely populated tropical and subtropical coastlands.

b) The great exodus from Ireland in mid 1900 was mainly due to failure of potato crops.

Ans : d

19. Which one of the following….. correctly matched?

Theory Relating to Urban Structure Proponent

a) Concentric Theory Sinclair

b) Sector Theory Homer Hoyt

Ans : a

20. Travelling from the equator towards pole, what would be the correct sequence of vegetation types you would encounter ?

Ans : d

21. Travelling from the equator towards pole, what would be the …. vegetation types you would encounter ?

a) Tropical rain forest - tundra - savanna

Ans : b

22. Which one of the following ……. Correctly matched ?

Type of Agriculture Country

a) Viticulture France

b) Sericulture Poland

Ans : b

23. Assertion & Reason : The amount of salinity in the tropical zone is recorded higher in the eastern than the western coast of continents.

Ans : a

24. Assertion & reason : Intensification and diversification of agriculture in the Central Valley has made California the leading American state in agricultural ouput.

Ans : b

25. Assertion & reason : A river system can continue to cut down its valleys at approximately the same rate as uplift and so maintains its general pattern and direction.

Ans : b

26. Assertion & reason : A strip of land near the south-western shore of San Francisco Bay is referred to as Silicon Valley.

Ans : c

27. Assertion & Reason : On small scale conformal projections large areas may be imperfectly represented with respect to shape.

Ans : d

28. Assertion & Reason : Both Remote Sensing and GIS are involved in the analysis of phenomena of spatial significance.

Ans : c

29. Assertion & Reason : The outer core of the earth's interior is in molten state while the inner core is in solid state.

Ans : c

30. Assertion & Reason : In a resequent fault line scarp, the down throw side will form lower ground.

Ans : a

31. Consider the following……. Peninsular India :

1. It is largely composed of Archaean crystalline rocks.

2. Most of the mountains here are of relict type.

Ans : b

32. Which one of the following…….. statement ?

The Alpine vegetation in the eastern Himalayas is found up to greater altitudes than the Western Himalayas because

a) The eastern Himalayas are higher than the western Himalayas.

b) The eastern Himalayas are nearer to the equator and sea coast than the western Himalayas.

Ans : c

33. The irregularity in the amount of rainfall in different parts of the north Indian plains is mainly due to

a) Irregular intensity of low pressure in the north-western parts of India .

b) Variation in the location of the axis of low pressure trough

Ans : b

34. Consider :

1. Canyon is an extreme type of V-shaped valley with very steep sides and no valley floor.

2. Grand Canyan is associated with the Colorado River

Ans : b

35. Which one of the following……. India from oldest to the youngest ?

a) Deccan Lava – Gondwana sediment – Dharwarian sediment-Tertiary folding

b) Gondwana sediment- Deccan Lava – Tertiary folding- Dharwarian sediment.

Ans : d

36. Consider :

1. The coastal area between the Eastern Ghats and the Bay of Bengal is narrower than the coastal area between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea.

2. The Indus rises near Mansarovar in Tibet and finally falls in the Arabian Sea near Karachi.

Ans : b

37. Which one of the following….. characterised by the Mediterranean type of climate ?

a) South Africa

b) South Western Australia

c) South Western United States of America

d) North Western Europe

Ans : d

38. Consider the following countries :

1. Brazil

2. Indonesia

3. Iran

4. Pakistan

Ans : c

39. Which city has the maximum average annual rainfall among following European cities ?

a) Warsaw b) Bucharest

c) Athens d) Belgrade

Ans : a

40. Which country among the following has…. Electricity generation by nuclear plants ?

a) United States of America b) United Kingdom

c) France d) Germany

Ans : c

41. Consider the following……. United Arab Emirates

1. United Arab Emirates are surrounded in the northwest by Oman.

2. United Arab Emirates have highest percentage of the foreigners in its population in the world.

Ans : b

42. Which of the …..matched ?

1. West North Central Iowa

2. Middle Atlantic Maryland

Ans : d

43. Which one of the ….. producer of electricity by wind power in the world ?

a) Germany b) Australia

c) Norway d) Switzerland

Ans : a

44. Consider the following statements :

1. As per Census 2001, the sex ratio ( Females per 1000 males ) ….1981-1991 in India.

2. The population of India as recorded at each decennial census from 1901 has grown steadily except for a decrease during 1951-61.

Ans : d

45. As per Census 2001, which of the following pairs ……. matched ?

1. Daman and Diu : Lowest % of urban population

2. Pondicherry : Sex ratio in excess of 1000

Ans : c

46. Which one of the following African countries is not land – locked ?

a) Mali b) Zambia c) Chad d) Libya

Ans : d

47. Consider :

1. the population density of Japan is close to that of India.

2. Crude birth-rate of China is much lower than that of India.

Ans : a

48. Which one of the following …. is correct ?

When contours are placed very close to each other in a river valley, they represent a

a) Waterfall b) Rapid

c) Convex slope d) Concave slope

Ans : c

49. Who among the following scholars followed the teleological approach in the study of the earth ?

a) Alexnader Von Humboldt

b) Carl Ritter

c) Immanuel Kant

d) Bernard Varenius

Ans : b

50. Select the correct sequence of the SOI topographic map Index Numbers …….West of the sheet bearing number 48 I/2.

a) 48/I/1, 48 E/14, 48 I/6, 48 I/3

b) 48 I/6, 48 I/1, 48 E/14, 48 I/3

Ans : -

51. Match : List-I ( Diagram ) List-II ( Data )

A. Climograph 1. Annual rainfall for 40 years

B. Star diagram 2. Mean rainfall at a station for 12 months

Ans : b

52. Consider the following…….Tidal Hypothesis on origin of the earth

1. The solar system was formed from the primitive sun and another intruding star.

2. The intruding star was smaller in size than the primitive sun.

Ans : d

53. Match List-I ( Geological Period ) List-II ( distinctive Life / Incidence )

A. Late-Precambrian 1. Himalayan Orogeny

B. Carboniferous 2. Sponges

Ans : d

54. Which of the following…… metamorphic rocks generally resulting from regional metamorphism ?

1. Such rocks become wholly crystalline

2. Such rocks become partially crystalline

3. A streaking or parallel arrangement of their constituent crystals which lie with their longer axes pointing in the same direction.

Ans : d

55. Consider the following statements :

`Vulcanicity' refers to

1. all those processes in which molten rock material or magma rises into the crust.

2. The greater bulk of the volcanic rocks of the earth's surface were erupted from volcanoes.

3. The process of solidification of rock into crystalline or semicrystalline form from molten rock material after being poured out on the surface

Ans : c

56. Match List-I ( Characteristic of Weathering ) List-II ( Relationship of Various Aspects of Weathering )

A. Disintegration or rock without chemical 1. A universal feature in

Alternation. weathering.

B. Totting and decomposition of rocks 2. Red, yellow or brown

tints on chemical weathering.

Ans : b

57. Consider : An aerial photograph will be considered to be truly vertical if

1. The sky does not appear in the scene.

2. The camera axis is held perpendicular to horizon.

3. The area covered in the image is relatively small.

Ans : c

58. Consider the following landform characteristics :

1. Stream divides are sharp and ridgelike resulting in a minimum of inter stream uplands.

2. Extensive areas are at or near the base level of erosion.

Ans : c

59. Which one of he following provides the force needed to drive the atmospheric circulation ?

a) Higher biotic content of the tropical latitudes and lower biotic content of the polar latitudes.

b) The energy contrasts between high insolation tropical latitudes and the low insolation polar latitudes.

Ans : b

60. Which one of the following statements is correct ?

Collision – coalescence process of precipitation is applicable to

a) Clouds which extend beyond freezing level

b) All types of clouds

c) Cumulo-nimbus clouds

d) Those clouds which do not extend beyond the freezing level.

Ans : b

61. Which one of the following statements is correct ?

The innermost region of a hurricane is known as hurricane – eye where

a) temperature is abnormally low and pressure is the lowest

b) sky is clear and temperature is the lowest

c) temperature is abnormally high and pressure is the lowest

d) sky is under dense cloud cover and pressure is the lowest

Ans : c

62. Consider the following statements :

1. Contour ploughing promotes soil erosion and the formation of gullies.

2. Gully erosion is the removal of top soil and creation of many steep-sided cuttings in a hillside.

Ans : b

63. Match List-I ( Region of Dispersed Rural Settlement ) with List-II (Associated Factor )

A. Alps and Himlayas 1. Large areas to be reached

B. Delta of Ganga 2. Marshy conditions hinder movement

Ans : d

64. Which one of the following is not correct about the North-eastern United States of America ?

a) The region experienced expansion of manufacturing industry for which the population provided all grades of labour, entrepreneurial experience, vast amounts of money to invest and very large market close at hand.

b) Clothing manufacture is carried on in many locations, but is specially concentrated in the city of Cleveland, Ohio.

Ans : b

65. Match List-I ( Major Cities of Brazil ) List-II ( Mark on the Map )

A. Sao Paulo 1. X₁

B. Recife 2. X₂

C. Brasilia 3. X₃

D. Rio de Janeiro 4. X₄

Ans : b

66. Following four cities are located almost on 76^oE longitude

1. Indore 2. Solapur . 3. Ludhiana 4. Jaipur

Ans : b

67. Mohorovicic discontinuity separates

a) Upper mantle and lower crust

b) Mantle and asthenosphere

c) Inner solid core and outer liquid core

d) Core and mantle

Ans : a

68. Kuroshio is a warm ocean current which runs form

a) Philippines to Japan

b) Indonesia to Philippines

c) Japan to China

d) Sri Lanka to Indonesia

Ans : a

69. Which of the following properties are associated with the Conical map Projection ?

1. The distance between the meridians decreases towards the pole

2. The standard parallel is correct to the scale.

3. The distance between the parallels decreases towards the pole

4. The central meridian is a straight line

Ans : c

70. What is Gomia in Jharkhand known for ?

a) Coalfields

b) Manganese mining

c) Fertiliser plant

d) Explosive factory

Ans : d

71. Which one of the following terms is credited to Humboldt ?

a) Uranography

b) Biogeography

c) Geomorphology

d) Climatology

Ans : a

72. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?

a) Hecataeus : Ges-periodos

b) Anaximander : Gnomon

c) Eratosthenes : Pangaea

d) Hipparchus : Astrolabe

Ans : c

73. What is represented by the shaded portion in the map given above ?

a) Black soil

b) Desert soil

c) Grey and brown soil

d) Red and yellow soil

Ans : d

74. In the map given above, four region of natural vegetation are marked as 1,2,3, and 4. Which of these are tropical rain forests ?

a. 1,2,3

b. 1,3

c. 2,3,4

d. 2,4

Ans : b

75. Which one of the following …. not correct ?

a) Make-up of the soil according to proportions of sand, silt and clay is known as soil texture.

b) The way in which sand, silt, clay and humus bond together to form peds is known as soil structure.

Ans : b

76. What is the approximate average annual water availability of India ?

a) 150 billion cubic metre ( BCM )

b) 1250 billion cubic metre ( BCM )

c) 1650 billion cubic metre ( BCM )

d) 1850 billion cubic metre ( BCM)

Ans : d

77. Which of the following has / have salt marshes as an ideal place for its / their growth ?

1. Halophytes 2. Mesophytes 3. Xerophuytes

Ans : a

78. Which type of fold is formed at A in the figure given above ?

a) Isoclinal fold b) Plunge fold

c) Open fold d) Recumbent fold

Ans : d

79. What is the Representative Fraction (R.F.) if the given scale is 2” : 1 mile ?

a) 1 : 31680

b) 1 : 62360

c) 1 : 126720

d) 1 : 63360

Ans : a

80. Which one of the following cartographic techniques is suitable for measuring spatial association among the different attributes of the regional economy ?

a) Dot method b) Pie diagram

c) Bar diagram d) Choropleth method

Ans : b

81. Match List-I ( Projection ) List-II ( Property )

A. Bonne's Projection 1. Length of the equator is

2p R cos 45^o.

B. Gall's Stereographic Projection 2. Pole is a straight line

Ans : a

82. Consider the following statements :

1. National Highway No. 7 is the longest among India's National Highways.

2. Napur, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Chennai and Kanyakumari fall on the National Highway No. 7

Ans : a

83. X in the figure given above is a river. In digital database terms, it is an / a

a) Node and denotes a linear feature

b) Arc and denotes a linear feature

c) Polygon and denotes an areal feature

d) Arc and denotes point feature

Ans : b

84. Which one of the following is nto a GIS software ?

a) ARCVIEW

b) OSIRIS

c) ILWIS

d) IMAGE ANALYST

Ans : d

85. The terms longitude and latitude were first used by

a) Eratosthenes

b) Anaximander

c) Ptolemy

d) Homer

Ans : a

86. Which one of the following scholars of pre-modern period clearly established the relationship between regional geography and systematic geography?

a) Cluverius

b) Bushing

c) Buache

d) Varenius

Ans : d

87. Which one of the following concepts is associated with Vidal de la Blache ?

a) Landscape chorology

b) Mathematical geography

c) Terrestrial whole

d) Landschaft

Ans : a

88. Which one of the following is not a tributary of the Barak River ?

a) Jiri

b) Rukni

c) Dhaleswari

d) Pagladiya

Ans : -

89. What is shading, in the form of lines showing a hill or slope on a map, termed as ?

a) Spot height

b) Contour

c) Hachure

d) Farm lines

Ans : c

90. Match : List-I ( Classification of Valleys ) List-II ( Characteristic of Valleys )

A. Consequent Valley 1. Draining in a direction opposite to that of

the original consequent valleys.

B. Subsequent valley 2. Showing no apparent adjustment to

structural control.

Ans : a

91. Towards which direction does the magnetic north pole show a declination from the geographic north pole ?

a) East b) West c) North d) South

Ans : b

92. Match List-I ( Numerical Scale ) List-II ( Equivalent Map Distance for 1 km Ground Distance )

A. 1: 10,00,000 1. 40 mm

B. 1:50000 2. 04 mm

C. 1: 250000 3. 20 mm

D. 1:25000 4. 01 mm

Ans : b

93. Which of the following are associated with the origin of dispersed settlements in the U.K. and the U.S.A. ?

1. Desire of family privacy

2. Farmer's easy access to fields

3. Law and order in countryside

4. Uneven topography of farm lands

Ans : c

94. Match : List-I ( Climatic Type ) List-II ( Region )

A. Amw 1. Most parts of peninsular plateau

B. Aw 2. Interior parts of peninsula, western slopes of Aravallis

and parts of Haryana.

Ans : d

95. Match List-I (Coal Mining Area ) List-II ( Country )

A. Karaganda Basin 1. United Kingdom

B. Pechora Basin 2. Russia

C. Upper Silesia 3. Poland

4. Kazakhstan

Ans : b

96. Match : List-I ( Type of Agriculture ) List-II ( Area Associated with the Particular Type of Agriculture )

A. Shifting 1. American Prairies

B. Subsistence 2. Ganga Delta

Ans : c

97. Tribes belonging to which one of the following groups earn their livelihood through food – gathering and hunting ?

a) Hushman, Pigmay and Eskimo

b) Masai, Kirghiz, and Boro

c) Pigmy, Eskimo and Kirghiz

d) Boro, Bushman and Masai

Ans : a

98. Consider the following statements :

1. Natives of Andaman-Nicobar islands belong to Negrito races.

2. Tribals living in Central India belong to Mongolid races.

3. Tribals living in the North-East India belong to the Negroid races.

4. Indo-Aryans belong to the Nordic

Ans : c

99. Match List-I ( Concept ) List-II ( Proponent )

A. Determinism 1. O.H.K. Spate

B. Possibilism 2. F. Ratzel

C. Neo-Determinism 3. J. Brunhes

D. Probabilism 4. G. Taylor

Ans : a

100. Consider the following statements :

1. The environmental determinism dominated the writings of early Arab geographers.

2. Vidal de La Blache supplemented classical geographical determinism with “Social Darwinism”.

Ans : a

101. Which one of the following is the correct sequence in the evolution of geographical ideologies ?

a) Determinism – Quantitative Revolution –Possibilism – Radicalism

b) Determinism-possibilism-quantitative revolution - radicalism

c) Possibilism – determinism – radicalism – quantitative revolution

d) Radicalism – possibilism – determinism – quantitative revolution

Ans : b

102. Match List-I ( Book ) List-II ( Author )

A. Cosmos 1. Carl Ritter

B. End Kunde 2. Alexander Von Humboldt

Ans : b

103. Mangrove vegetation, in India, is mot extensively found in

a) Malabar Coast b) The Sunderbans

c) The Rannof Kachchh d) Coastal Orissa

Ans : b

104. Which one of the following…….. percentage of its area under forest cover ?

a) Andaman and Nicobar Islands

b) Arunachal Pradesh

c) Mizoram

d) Jammu and Kashmir

Ans : a

105. Which one of the following states…..high percentage of tank irrigation ?

a) Tamil Nadu

b) West Bengal

c) Kerala

d) Karnataka

Ans : a

106. Consider : Larger bodies of intrusive rocks called bathyliths are

1. Very commonly formed of granites though not invariably

2. Lens shaped masses of rock occupying the saddles of anticlines or the keels of synclines of mountains.

Ans : d

107. Which one of the following statements is correct ?

Monocline folds are normally associated with

a) Faulting

b) Distorted beds

c) Inverted beds

d) Inclined beds

Ans : d

108. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched ?

Symbol / for Term used

1. Delta

2. Plateau

3. Spring line

4. Waterfall

Ans : -

109. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?

Multipurpose Project State

1. Ukai Project Gujarat

2. Kukadi Project Maharashtra

3. Salal Project Jammu and Kashmir

Ans : a

110. Which one of the following is a land of geysers, hot springs, lava flows and snow-fields ?

a) Alaska b) Iceland c) Ireland d) Finland

Ans : b

111. Tropic of Capricon passes through which one of the following countries ?

a) Botswana b) Swaziland c) Zimbabwe d) Zambia

Ans : a

112. `Amphibious' wooden houses, floating on the canals, are found in

a) Bangkok b) Phnom Penh

c) Vientiane d) Yangoon

Ans : b

113. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?

a) Ribbon Falls California

b) Tugela Falls Natal, South Africa

c) Powerscourt Ireland

d) Sutherland Falls Norway

Ans : -

114. In Central Place Theory k=7 settlement denotes :

a) Market town

b) Market-cum-administrative town

c) Administrative town

d) Transport town

Ans : c

115. Consider the following statements :

1. The present Infant Mortality Rate in India is about 80 per 1000 live births.

2. The Tenth Plan envisages a reduction in Infant Mortality Rate to 45 per 1000 live births.

Ans : d

116. Match List-I ( Proponent ) List-II ( Criterion for Functional Classification )

A. Harris 1. Dominant functions

B. Aurousseau 2. Statistical criterion

Ans : c

117. Match List-I ( Process of Urbanisation ) List-II ( Stage of Urbanisation )

A. Beginning of urban settlement 1. Megalopolis

B. Town formation 2. Eopolis

C. Urban maturity 3. Polis

Ans : a

118. The most important feature of Mediterranean agriculture is

a) Rainfed agriculture

b) Mixed cropping

c) Viticulture

d) Dry field farming

Ans : c

119. Match List-I ( Settlement Pattern ) List-II ( Region )

A. Circular or Semi-circular 1. At the confluence of rivers.

B. Star like 2. In the vicinity of crater lakes or on the

levees of ox-bow lake.

Ans : b

120. The dominant rural settlement pattern along the coastal region of Kerala is known as

a) Clustered

b) Compact

c) Nucleated

d) Dispersed

Ans : c

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