MOCK TEST ON GEOGRAPHY OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES PYQS JULY & DEC 2018 NTA UGC NET

Q.1. Match the List-I with List - II and select the correct answer from the code given below: (UGC NET JULY 2018)

List-I (Countires)          

(a) Liberia

(b) Guinea

(c) Togo

(d) Niger

List-II (Mineral Reserve)

(i) Argentina

(ii) Sri Lanka

(iii) New Zealand

(iv) Mangolia

Code:

     (a)  (b)  (c)  (d)

(1) iv    iii     ii    i

(2)  i     iv     iii   ii

(3) ii      i      iv   iii

(4) iii    ii       i    iv

Q.2. Match the List-I with List - II and select the correct answer from the code given below: (UGC NET JULY 2018)

List-I (Sectors of the Economy)      

(a) Primary

(b) Secondary

(c) Tertiary

(d) Quaternary

List-II (Activities)

(i) Research endavours

(ii) Train services

(iii) Pearl culture

(iv) Spinning cotton year

Code:

     (a)  (b)  (c)  (d)

(1) i      ii     iii    iv

(2) iii     iv     ii    i

(3) ii      i      iv   iii

(4) iv    iii     i      ii

Q.3. Which one of the following countries holds the first rank in commercial dairy farming? (UGC NET JULY 2018)

(1) USA

(2) India

(3) China

(4) Pakistan

Q.4. Match the List-I with List - II and select the correct answer from the code given below: (UGC NET JULY 2018)

List-I (Economy)                                           

(a) Subsistence Economy

(b) Commercial Economy

(c) Intensive Subsistence Economy

(d) Extensive Subsistence Economy

List-II (Features)

(i) Market competition as primary force shaping the production patterns

(ii) Self-sufficiency, low production an low population density

(iii) Self-sufficiency, high production and high population density

(iv) Little exchange of goods and only limited need for markets

Code:

     (a)  (b)  (c)  (d)

(1) ii    iii     i      iv

(2) iv    i      iii     ii

(3) iii    ii     iv     i

(4)   i   iv      iii    ii

Q.5. Match the List-I with List - II and select the correct answer from the code given below: (UGC NET JULY 2018)

List-I (Whitlessey’ Agricultural Religions)       

(a) Commercial Dairy Farming

(b) Commercial Grain Farming

(c) Nomadic Herding

(d) Commercial Plantations

List-II (Name of Countries)

(i)  Argentina

(ii) Sri Lanka

(iii) New Zealand

(iv) Mangolia

Code:

     (a)  (b)  (c)  (d)

(1) iii     i     iv     ii

(2)  i    ii      iii     iv

(3) iv   iii      ii      i

(4)  ii   iv       i     iii

Q.6. The formula  where PI= Agricultural Productivity Index; Y= Total production of selected crops in unit area; Yn= Total production of same selected crops at national level; T= Total cropped area of the unit; Tn = Total cropped area at national scale. (UGC NET JULY 2018)

(1) Bhatia

(2) Enyedi

(3) Weaver

(4) Shafi

Q.7. Among the following scholars, who introduced the concept of ‘Least-Transport-Cost Location’ using the frame of ‘Location triangle’? (UGC NET JULY 2018)

(1) W. Isard

(2) M.K Bandman

(3) D.M. Smith

(4) A. Weber

Q.8. Which one of the following conditions Alfred Weber introduced in his concept of ‘Locational Triangle’? (UGC NET JULY 2018)

(1) Both ‘R1’ and ‘R2’ are found universally

(2) ‘R1’ is fixed but ‘R2’ is found everywhere and both are pure

(3) Both ‘R1’ and R2 are fixed and pure

(4) Both ‘R1’ and ‘R2’ are fixed and gross

    (Where: ‘R1’ and ‘R2’ are two raw materials)

Q.9. Which of the following can be categorized as a primary activity? (UGC NET DEC 2018)

(1) Coal mining

(2) Teaching

(3) Handicraft

(4) Car manufacturing

Q.10. Which one of the following categories of urban land use as per given graph has the highest gradient of its economic rent at 2 km distance? (UGC NET DEC 2018)

(1) Green land

(2) Residential

(3) Industrial

(4) Commercial

Q.11. Which one of the following authors initiated concept of 'Isodapanes in space-economy'? (UGC NET DEC 2018)

(1) A. Losch

(2) A. Weber

(3) E. Hoover

(4) T. Planer

Q.12. Which one of the following indices is used to indicate if the optimal location was closer to either raw material source or the market? (UGC NET DEC 2018)

(1) Material Index

(2) Labour Cost Index

(3) Relative Spread Index

(4) Weighted Index

Q.13. Which one of the following is correct for the cost-input graph of industrial production system, where point of profit maximising output is (UGC NET DEC 2018)

(1) Marginal cost is not equal to marginal revenue

(2) Average cost equals average revenue

(3) Marginal cost equals marginal revenue

(4) Total cost equals total revenue

Q.14. Which one of the following statements correctly explains the difference between Gravity model and Potential model? (UGC NET DEC 2018)

(1) Gravity model deals with only two places at a time, while Potential model accounts for interactions between many places

(2) Gravity model makes no provision for size of places, while Potential model considers size of places.

(3) Both Gravity model and Potential model are the same.

(4) Gravity model does not take distances into account, while Potential model takes distances into account.

Q.15. Which one of the following factors of a boundary determination between the areas of two competing firms is correct, if the gradients of delivered price and freight rate of firms production is same? (UGC NET DEC 2018)

(1) Closer distance from the location of firms

(2) Output of firm

(3) Price at plant/firm

(4) Raw material available