Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
A Hindu temple located in Texas is most likely the result of which kind of diffusion?
A)
Expansion
B)
Hierarchical
C)
Contagious
D)
Relocation
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Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
Christaller’s central place theory explains that settlements will form in a triangular/hexagonal lattice, with the geometric shapes forming
A)
Thresholds
B)
Hierarchies of cities
C)
Transport routes
D)
Market areas
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Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
McMahon Line is an international boundary between
A)
India and Pakistan
B)
India and Myanmar
C)
India and China
D)
India and Bangladesh
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Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
The largest and most wide-spread language family is
A)
Indo-European
B)
Sino-Tibetan
C)
Afro-Asiatic
D)
Austronesian
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Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
A buffer state is a politically neutral state that lies between two more powerful states and acts
A)
as a taxing authority for both states
B)
to balance power between the two states
C)
to minimize the religious authority
D)
to enhance both states’ political power
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Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
A state which places most power in the hands of a central government is a
A)
Federal state
B)
Nation-state
C)
Fragmented state
D)
Unitary state
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Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
Market-gardening activities occur in which zone of von Thunen’s model of agricultural land use?
A)
First zone
B)
Second zone
C)
Third zone
D)
Fourth zone
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Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
Alfred Weber’s least cost theory takes into account all of the following EXCEPT
A)
locating markets close to source materials
B)
transportation costs
C)
weight of raw materials
D)
consumer demand for the finished product
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Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
The concept of genre de vie is associated with
A)
Friedrich Ratzel
B)
Vidal de la Blache
C)
Jean Brunhes
D)
E. C. Semple
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Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
A well-known book on environmental determinism titled the ‘lnfuences of Geographic Environment’ was written by
A)
E. Huntington
B)
E.C. Semple
C)
F. Ratzel
D)
W.M. Davis
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Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
Which one of the following individuals is engaged in a secondary economic activity?
A)
A computer programmer
B)
A city clerk
C)
The CEO of Suzuki Motors
D)
A production worker
The selected option matches the standard concept or established geography definition.
Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
Which of the following political state shapes would likely be the most efficient for transportation and communication?
A)
Compact
B)
Prorupt
C)
Elongated
D)
Fragmented
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Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
Quantitative revolution in geography is NOT related to
A)
a turn from idiographic to nomothetic science
B)
emphasis on formulation of laws and theories in geography
C)
advocate on use of statistics and mathematical languages
D)
description and interpretation of areal differentiation
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Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
‘Mental map’ is associated with
A)
Radical geography
B)
Post-modern geography
C)
Behavioural geography
D)
Humanistic geography
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Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
Benelux countries include
A)
Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg
B)
Britain, Norway and Liechtenstein
C)
Belgium, Norway and Liechtenstein
D)
Britain, Netherlands and Luxembourg
The selected option matches the standard concept or established geography definition.
Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
According to Rostow’s stages of development, which of the following is true?
A)
All countries will eventually pass through each of the five stages of development.
B)
The colonial legacy will impede a country’s economic growth.
C)
Countries might not pass through each of the stages in a linear manner.
D)
The second stage is termed ‘Take-off stage’.
The selected option matches the standard concept or established geography definition.
Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
In which of the following regions has the oldest well-documented urban settlement found?
A)
Huang He Valley
B)
Nile Valley
C)
Indus Valley
D)
Mesopotamia
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Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
Who described the city of Los Angeles as a “polycentric, polycultural, and polyglot metropolis”?
A)
Michael Dear
B)
Yi-Fu Tuan
C)
Doreen Massey
D)
Gilian Rose
The selected option matches the standard concept or established geography definition.
Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
A nation-state is most often defined by its twin attributes of sovereignty and
A)
religious tolerance
B)
social democracy
C)
ethnic homogeneity
D)
economic prosperity
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Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
Baby booms are generally associated with
A)
periods of economic hardship
B)
increased education of women
C)
periods of economic prosperity
D)
increased number of women in the workforce
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Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
Which of the following is NOT one of Ravenstein’s migration laws?
A)
Most migration is rural to urban.
B)
Migrants traveling long distances will likely settle in a big city.
C)
People in rural areas are more migratory than city dwellers.
D)
Most international migrants are young women.
The selected option matches the standard concept or established geography definition.
Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
The first stage of the demographic transition model says
A)
High birth rate and low death rate
B)
Migration increases from rural to urban areas
C)
High birth and death rates
D)
High life ecpectancy
The selected option matches the standard concept or established geography definition.
Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
Which of the following is true regarding the growing season?
A)
The Northern Hemisphere has a longer growing season than the Southern Hemisphere.
B)
The Southern Hemisphere has a longer growing season than the Northern Hemisphere.
C)
Polar regions have longer season than equatorial region.
D)
Equatorial regions have longer season than Polar regions.
The selected option matches the standard concept or established geography definition.
Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
Which one of the following describes a system of agriculture where a single crop is grown on a large area?
A)
Shifting Agriculture
B)
Plantation Agriculture
C)
Horticulture
D)
Intensive Agriculture
The selected option matches the standard concept or established geography definition.
Assistant Professor / Lecturer • Technical Paper-II
_____________ adopts qualitative methodologies that relied upon the ability of people to articulate the feelings and meanings that they associated with particular places is
A)
Humanistic geography
B)
Radical geography
C)
Behavioural geography
D)
Feminist geography
The selected option matches the standard concept or established geography definition.
