NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam, Dec., 2021/June, 2022 Geography

Structuralism perspective in geography is associated with Ferdinand de Saussure. Saussure was born in a Swiss family. Firstly, he denies that there is any natural connection between words and things, implying that reality isn't independent of language and language cannot be reduced to 'name-giving system. Further, Saussure argues, language is a system of signs which has no meaning and place in isolation, but can only understood in relation to the difference with other words.

Montreal Protocol is associated with international agreement on 'substances that deplete the ozone layer. The montreal Protocol is a global aggrement to protect the Earth's ozone layer and was signed in 1987 and entered into force in 1989.
The Parties to the Protocol meet once a year to make decisions aimed at ensuring the successful implementation of the agreement. These include adjusting or amending the protocol, which has been done six times since its creation. The most recent amendment, the kigali amendment.

Following pairs match correctlylarge scale plan- 1: 100
Topological map - 1: 250,000 Cadestral map - 1: 3960

Gunnar Mrydal (1857) describe the generation of regional inequalities at the national and international levels in his theory of Circular Cumulative Causation as Backwash and spread effects. Circular Cumulative Causation theory was developed in year 1956. It is a multi-causal approach where the core variables and their linkages are delineated.

The term used by W. Penck to denote wanning development of landforms is Absteigende entwickelung. Penck is noted for criticizing key elements of the Davisian cycle of erosion, concluding that the process of uplift and denudation occurs simultaneously, at gradual and continuous rates. Penck's idea of parallel slope retreatled to revisions of Davis's cycle of erosion.

In occluded front, warm air is completely displaced from the ground surface. Occluded front is a type of weather front formed during cyclogenesis. The point where the warm front becomes the occluded front is the triple point, a new area of low-pressure that develops at this point is called a triple-point low.

Richard Butler, 1980 have proposed 'Tourism Area life cycle (TALC) 'model illustrating how tourism develops and changes over time in a region. It is a core theoretical underpinning for many tourism research and analyses.* Stages in Butler's tourism area life cycle model (TALC) as
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Option B is correct.
Geostrophic wind are those winds which are moving parallel to the isobars and blows only when the pressure gradient force is balanced by coriolis force.
While Option A is incorrect because wind deflects to its left in southern hemisphere under coriolis force and all other option are incorrect.

The Wilson cycle explains the process of the opening (beginning) and the closing (end of the ocean) The Wilson cycle named after the Canadian guephysicist J.TUZO WILSON, and it is divided into 6 stages