Among the following environmental pollutants, which one leads to the occurrence of acid rain?

Consider the following statements :

1. The granite and gneisses give rise to red soil through weathering.

2. The laterite soil contains the hydrated oxides of iron and aluminium.

3. Both the red and laterite soils are poor in nitrogen, but rich in potash and phosphorus.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

An area which has not been glaciated may show

Consider the following statements :

1. In an overtuned fold, the axial plane is inclined and both limbs dip in the same direction.
2. A recumbent fold is one in which the axial plane is essentially horizontal. Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

The tropical cyclones do not occur close to the equator because of

Among the following types of ecosystems, the annual average of net plant production is highest in

Which one of the following rivers has a cuspate delta ?

Which one of the following statements is not correct ?

The progressive wave theory regarding the origin of tides was put forth by

With reference to earthquakes, which one of the following statements is not correct?

Consider the following statements :

1. Youthful topography is characterized by comparatively a few streams, but usually with low gradients.

2. In mature topography, the main streams have their valleys cut to base level and are at grade.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Spits develop due to

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Consider the following statements :

1. General characteristics of westerlies are largely modified by cyclones and anticyclones.
2. Westerlies are the most dominant wind systems in middle latitudes.
3. Westerlies become more vigorous in the southern hemisphere. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements :

1. Chernogem soils originate under tall grass prairie vegetation.
2. Laterites form under hot and humid climatic conditions. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

What are Geosynclines?

Pelagic deposits consist of:

Consider the following statements :

1. Chaparral biomes develop under conditions of high moisture with less pronounced differences in the temperature between summer and winter.
2. Moist temperate coniferous forest biomes occur along the west coast of North America from central California to Alaska. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements :

1. The decrease of temperature with increasing latitude is more pronounced in north Atlantic ocean than the south Atlantic ocean.

2. The vertical distribution of temperature in enclosed seas of higher latitudes registers inversion of temperature.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements :

1. Montreal Protocol in the year 1987 called for the complete cut in the use of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the year 2000.
2. India was a signatory to the Montreal protocol in the year 1987. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. The boundary of a National Park is circumscribed by legislation whereas that of a Biosphere Reserve is not circumscribed by legislation.

2. In a National Park, particular attention is paid to the conservation of genepools, whereas it is not so in a wildlife sanctuary.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

With reference to Koppen's classification of climatic types, consider the following statements :

1. The minor/sub type indicated through small letter ? means rains all the year round.

2. The minor/sub type indicated through small letter ? means dry summer.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements :

1. Florida current passes through the Yucatan channel before entering Gulf of Mexico.
2. Florida current possesses the characteristics of the equatorial water mass. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Collision-coalescence process of precipitation is applicable to

What is a seismic zone extending at an angle of about 45° from the base of an ocean trench, down through lithosphere to the asthenosphere known as ?

Which one of the following primitive people use Krall for their shelter?

Consider the following tribes :

1. Masai
2. Kirghiz
3. Boro Which of the above are nomadic herders ?

Which one of the following ethnic groups does not belong to Mongoloids?

Regarding the Zone Strata Theory of Taylor, which one of the following statements is not correct ?

Consider the following statements :

1. Khasi society is patrillinear.

2. Pastoralism is the main occupation of the Tharus.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

In the given map, which one of the following types of soil is indicated by the marked area ?

Consider the following tribes:

1. Abujhmaria

2. Bhotia

3. Gaddi

For which of the above tribes is the economic activity mainly pastoral herding ?

What does Caribou provide?

Where is the Dogger Bank which is a major fishing area, located ?

Which one of the following is the speech area of Austric Linguistic Family ?

'Syntaxial Bend' is a feature of which one of the following ?

Where does the ethnic group called Dayak live ?

Ratzel's second volume of Anthropogeographie emphasized on

In the given map, four republics of Russian Federation are marked as 1,2,3 and 4. Which one of them is Chechnia ?

In the given map, four areas of sea/gulf bordering Australia viz.,

A. Arafura Sea

B. Coral sea

C. Gulf of Carpentaria

D. Timor sea are marked with numbers

Match them and select the correct answer using the code given below

In the map given here, four Emirates/Cities viz.,

A. Sharjah

B. Dubai

C. Abu Dhabi

D. Doha

Are marked with numbers. Using the code given below, match them correctly and select the correct answer :

Dead Sea is situated in which one of the following?

Consider the following :

1. Strong winds

2. Long winter nights

3. Cloudy sky

4. Cold dry air

Which of the above are the ideal conditions for the formation of temperature inversions ?

Who propounded the concentric circle theory of city morphology ?

Which of the following explains the Late Expanding Phase of Demographic Theory ?

Consider the following statements : Immigrants wherever settled

1. are culturally different from their receivers.
2. are visible minorities.
3. largely fulfill certain functions.
4. are granted full legal rights only in stages. Which of the statements given above are correct ?

Among the following states, which one is the largest producer of rubber?

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Consider the following places :

1. San Francisco
2. Adelaide
3. Cape Town
4. Sydney Which of the above have Mediterranean climate?

Which one of the following is the correct statement ?

Kalahari is a desert because it

Consider the following :

1. Broad evergreen leaves
2. Shining, waxy leaf surface
3. Epiphytes Which of the above is/are the salient characteristics of natural vegetation of Selvas ?

Which one of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched ?

Which one of the following is NOT a part of the Polynesia region ?

In the USA, where is the Silicon Valley located ?

In which one among the following countries is the per capita arable land highest ?

Consider the following pairs :

Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched ?

In which of the following countries is the urban population as per cent of its total population the highest?

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Consider the following statements :

1. Australia has the world's largest artesian basin.

2. Australia produces nearly one-third of the wool production of the world.

3. Broken Hill has good reserves of Diamond deposits.

Which of the statements given above are correct ?

Which one of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched ?

Among the following Asian countries, whose share in the world exports is the highest?

Consider the following statements :

1. China spans five time zones but runs on a single national time using the standard meridian of Beijing.
2. Russia uses eight standard time zones. Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

Where are mulberry trees grown mainly for silk production in China?

Consider the following statements :

1. Most of the coal reserves in China occur in the southern parts bordering Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar.
2. The largest share of coal in United States of America is mined in the western half of the country. Which of the statements given above is/are correct

Consider the following :

1. Andes mountains
2. New Zealand
3. Philippines
4. Taiwan Which of the above is/are part(s) of the Ring of fire ?

As per the World Development Indicators of World Bank, in which of the following South Asian countries is the average annual growth rate of population during 2005-2015 expected to be the highest?

When does excarpment develop ?

Which one of the following terms best defines South Asia as a region ?

Among the following states of India, which one has the largest forested area ?

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ? Types of waterfall : Names of waterfalls

Which one of the following statements is not correctly matched ?

Which one of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched ? Hydel Power Plant : State

Consider the following statements :

1. The light sandy red and yellow soils in Balaghat, Durg and Raipur districts are of alluvial origin.

2. In Tamil Nadu, the red soils occupy over two-thirds of its total area.

3. The red soils of Burdwan, Birbhum and Bankura are derived and transported from Chotanagpur plateau.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

The National River Conservation Directorate functions under which Union Ministry ?

When a person traverses from Mangalore (West) to Chennai (East), which one of the following sequences (from West to East) of forest types does he observe ?

Consider the following pairs :

Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched ?

If one traverses from West to East in India, which one of the following is the correct sequence of coal field deposits (from West to East) does he observe ?

Consider the following statements :1. In India, Tertiary deposits of coal occur in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland.2. In India, lignite does not occur anywhere except in Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan.3. In India, metallurgical coal is restricted to jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh only.Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which of the following options characterise temperate cyclones?

The following have been proposed as the climatic regions of India by Koppen:

1. Aw
2. Cwg
3. As
4. E Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the climatic regions given above as they occur from south to north India ?

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Which among the following is/are the major factor/factors responsible for the monsoon type of climate in India ?

1. Location
2. Thermal contrast
3. Upper air circulation
4. Inter-tropical convergence zone Select the correct answer using the code given below:

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Which one of the following patterns of settlements is most likely to develop along the convergence of several transport routes ?

Other than kerala, which one of the following states has already achieved the replacement level of fertility ?

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Consider the following statements about the QuickBird satellite :

1. It operates at an altitude of 950 km.
2. Its sensors collect both multispectral and panchromatic images concurrently. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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On an aerial photograph, symbol '+' denotes which one of the following ?

With reference to contours used for mapping the terrain, consider the following statements :

1. Contours are horizontal to the dip of the land and perpendicular to the direction in which the surface water runs.
2. Steeper the slope, farther the contour.
3. Contours bend up-stream while crossing a river.
4. Contours do not show up minor relief features. which of the statements given above are correct ?

While traveling from north to south along the east coast of China, which one of the following is the correct sequence of the given Chinese cities ?

For the purpose of identification of backward areas in India, which one of the following is NOT a measure of identification ?

In the given map, four cities viz.,

A. Bordeaux

B. Lyons

C. Marseilles

D. Paris

Are marked with numbers. Match them and select the correct answer using the code given

Consider the following statements in respect of formation of landforms in India :

1. Structurally, the Meghalaya Plateau is an extended part of the Deccan Plateau.
2. The Valley of Kashmir was formed in a synclinorium. Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

Who of the following was the first scientific geographer who ascertained the length of equator on sound principles ?

Consider the following statements :

1. Columbus estimated that Asia must lie very close to Europe on the west on the basis of the work of Ptolemy.
2. Strabo gave a correct explanation of the floods of the Nile, attributing them to the heavy rains in Ethiopia. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Who among the following was the first to distinguish between general geography and special geography and to show the mutual dependence of these approaches ?

Who among the following rejected the teleological idea of final causes and insisted that explanations must be sought in what is chronologically antecedent, and in this view, opposed Linnaeus and Leibniz but supported and amplified the ideas of Hume and Goethe ?

Consider the following statements :

1. Humboldt gave the first scientific description of the relation of altitude, air temperature, vegetation and agriculture in tropical mountains.
2. Ritter developed the concept that continental climates are colder in winter and warmer in summer than the climates at places near the oceans at the same latitude. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements :

1. Ritter saw in all his geographical studies the evidence of God's plan.

2. All the volumes of the Die Erdkunde completed by Ritter covered only Africa and a part of Asia.

3. Like Humboldt, Ritter's great work was largely put together on the basis of his own observations.

Which of the statements given above are correct ?

Consider the following statement :

1. Ellen Semple accepted the Ritzel's ideas about the state as an organism and introduced them to America.
2. Ellen Semple published her first professional article dealing with the role of the Appalachians as a barrier in American history. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements : Behaviourism refers to

1. Spatial behaviour of people.
2. Spatial perception.
3. spatial experience and imagination.
4. mental maps. Which of the statements given above are correct ?

Consider the following statements :

1. Humanistic geography depended on the growing need of social relevance of the subject.
2. Humanistic geography developed due to reaction to excessive quantification and model building in geography.
3. Humanistic geography drew much from the radical trend in geography. Which of the statements given above are correct ?

Consider the following statements :

1. Radicalism in geography is critical of geography as a spatial science.
2. Radicalism aimed at a general restructuring of capitalist society.
3. Radicalism in geography relied heavily on empiricist methods. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

The number of a topographic map is 47A/16/NW. Its scale must be :

Which one of the following is a special case of Bonne's projection ?

Which one of the following projections is suitable for large maps of small area fitting on all sides ?

Which one of the following is more useful to a sailor ?

If the focal length (f) of a camera lens is 20 cm and the height of the plane (h) is 1 metres above ground, what will be the scale of the air-photographs ?

Which one of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched ? Software : Organization

Under which of the following conditions would you NOT consider a given pair of aerial photographs as a stereopair?

1. No overlap
2. 25% overlap
3. 60% overlap
4. 100% overlap Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Geographical Information System (GIS) are designed to manipulate spatial objects. Which one of the following is not a spatial object ?

Assertion (A) : The Himalayan rivers are older than the mountain ranges they cross.

Reason (R) : The Himalayan rivers cut their channels deeply and incisively.

Assertion (A) : In India, the net sown area increased by about 19% from the year 1950-51 to 1999-2000. Reason (R) : During the same period, there had been a concurrent decrease in the area under forest.

Assertion (A) : Cyclones over Bay of Bengal are characterized by clockwise circulation.

Reason (R) : Their circulation is governed by pressure gradient and coriolis force.

Assertion (A) : Cirrus clouds primarily contain ice particles.

Reason (R) : Cirrus clouds occur at very light altitudes.

Assertion (A) : The per cent of population whose income is less than one US dollar/day is less in Pakistan than that in India. Reason (R) : The adult literacy rate (percentage of age 15 years and above with literacy) is more than in Pakistan than in India.