NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam, December, 2022 Geography

Total Questions: 100

21. Identify the main products of truck farming and factory farming, respectively.

Correct Answer: (c) Vegetables and Poultry
Solution:

Vegetables and Poultry are the main product of Truck farming and Factory farming respectively. The regions where farmers specialise in vegetable only the farming is known as Truck farming. Factory Farming refers to a method of breeding and raising farmed animals for food with the goal of maximizing production and minimise cost.

22. Which country specializes in growing tulip flowers?

Correct Answer: (a) Netherlands
Solution:

Netherland specializes in growing tulip flowers. Netherland is the largest producer of Tulip bulbs in the world providing 4.2 billion annually and exporting half. Every year seven million flower bulbs are planted in Keukenhof Garden in Netherlands. When the final winter chill disappears and springtime arrives the bulbs sprout to produce beautiful rows of red, oranges and yellows including 800 varieties of Tulip.

23. Consider the following pairs of localized diseases and area:

(A) Acute Eucephilitis syndrome - Western U.P.
(B) Lathyrus - Chhota Nagpur Plateau
(C) Fluorosis - Ganga Plain
(D) Goitre - Himalayan region
Choose the correct set of pairs:

Correct Answer: (c) B and D only
Solution:

Correct match is following-

24. Which one of the following parameter is not proposed by Kristof of distinguish frontiers and boundaries?

Correct Answer: (b) Frontiers are areal and boundaries are linear in character.
Solution:

Kristof distinguished Frontiers and Boundaries as following-
(i) Frontiers is outer oriented while boundary is inner oriented.
(ii) The frontier is manifestation of centrifugal forces on the other hand the range and vigour of centripetal force is indicated by boundary.
(iii) The frontier is integrating factor and boundary is a separating factor.

25. Which one of the following information is not collected as part of the National population Register (NPR), Census of India 2011?

Correct Answer: (d) Aadhaar Number
Solution:Aadhar number is not collected as part of the National Population Register, Census of India 2011. It includes date of birth, age, education, gender, present marital status, mother tongue, occupation etc.

26. Which one of the following holy places of Buddhism is located at the eastern longitude?

Correct Answer: (d) Rajgriha
Solution:

Rajgriha, famous buddhist centre located at the Easternmost longitude in given options. Sequence of Buddhist holy places from the west to east is
Shravasti → Sarnath→ Gaya→ Rajgriha

27. Which of the following district matches correctly with its major tribal group?

Correct Answer: (b) Tawang - Adi
Solution:

Option (b) is correctly matched.

28. Which of the following contains principles of trigonometry?

Correct Answer: (c) Suryasiddhanta
Solution:

Suryasiddhant written by Aryabhatta contains principles of Trigonomentry. Rihla was travel account of Ibn battuta. Geographia Generalis was written by Varenius and Anthropo-geography was written by Ratzel.

29. Which of the following is remembered for prediction of an eclipse of the Sun and cosmology based on water?

Correct Answer: (a) Thales
Solution:

Thales is remembered for prediction of an Eclipses of the sun and cosmology based on water. Also remembered as father of western philosophy he first predicted the sun's eclipse in 585 BCE which is an inportant contribution in field of astrology.
Homer wrote two epics Illiod and Odyssey. Aneximander intròduced 'Gnoman' tools to greeks. Hecateaus wrote" Ges periodes " in which he described geography in sequence. Hence he is known as "Father of Geography".

30. Which of the following is accuses of "Ileaving 'Ge' out of geography"?

Correct Answer: (c) Hartshorne
Solution:

Hartshorne is accuses of leaving 'ge' out of 'geography'. According to Hartshorne "Geography is a concern to provide an accurate orderly and regional description and interpretation of the variable character of the Earth surface.
Hartshorne is author of two famous books "The nature of geography" and "The perspective on the Nature of geography." Ritter and Humboldt were German geographer. Ritter published "Erdkunde" series of Books. Humboldt authored 'Cosmos" book. Guyot was American geographer and wrote book "The Earth of Man".