MOCK TEST ON GEOGRAPHY OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES PYQS JUNE 2021 NTA UGC NET

Q.1. Which of the following statements are correct about the benefits of international trade? (NTA UGC NET DEC 2020 JUNE 2021)

(A) It has allowed an enormous variety of resources to enter into trade basket

(B) It facilitates the distribution of a wide range of manufactured goods, produced in different parts of the world to global market

(C) International trade decreases the overall costs of production

(D) It has helped the developing countries more than developed countries

(E) It has helped the consumers to buy more goods from whatever wages they their living standards improved

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) (A), (B), (E) only

(2) (C), (D), (E) only

(3) (A), (B), (C) only

(4) (A), (C), (E) only

Q.2. Which of the following is a renewable resource? (NTA UGC NET DEC 2020 JUNE 2021)

(1) Metal ores

(2) Natural gas

(3) Fuel Cells

(4) Fishes

Q.3. Using the locational triangle, the concept of the least transport cost location was introduced by (NTA UGC NET DEC 2020 JUNE 2021)

(1) Walter Isard

(2) M.K. Bandman

(3) D.M. Smith

(4) Alfred Weber

Q.4. The most important factor responsible for localization of high-tech firms in Silicon Valley of California in (NTA UGC NET DEC 2020 JUNE 2021)

(1) Cheap Labour

(2) Access to the market

(3) Agglomeration Economy

(4) High speed transportation

Q.5. Which one of the following is incorrect about agro-industrialization-? (NTA UGC NET DEC 2020 JUNE 2021)

(1) Needs large agricultural farms

(2) Low labour input per unit of production

(3) Highly qualified managers

(4) Less use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides

Q.6. Match List I with List II (NTA UGC NET DEC 2020 JUNE 2021)

List I (Whitlesey's Agricultural region)

(A) Commercial dairy farming

(B) Commercial grain farming

(C) Nomadic herding

(D) Commercial plantation

List II (Name of country)

(I) Mongolia

(II) Sri lanka

(III) New Zealand

(IV) Argentina

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

            (A)       (B)       (C)       (D)

(1)        I           II         III        IV

(2)        II         III        IV        I

(3)        III        IV        I           II

(4)        IV        III        II         I

Q.7. The agricultural activities from the city centre to the periphery propounded by Von Thunen: Arrange it (NTA UGC NET DEC 2020 JUNE 2021)

(A) Grain farming

(B) Market Gardening

(C) Three fold system

(D) Firewood and lumbering product

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) (D), (B), (A), (C)

(2) (A), (B), (C), (D)

(3) (C), (D), (A), (B)

(4) (B), (D), (A), (C)

Q.8. Which of the following food stuff consume highest amount of water? (NTA UGC NET DEC 2020 JUNE 2021)

(1) Rice

(3) Beef

(3) Chocolate

(4) Banana

Q.9. Who among the following scholars applied the formula  where PI= Agricultural productivity index: Y=Total production of selected crops in unit area: Y_n = Total production of the same selected crops in the country: T = Total cropped area of the unit, T_n= Total cropped area in the country for measuring agricultural productivity level (NTA UGC NET DEC 2020 JUNE 2021)

(1) Bhatia

(2) Enyedi

(3) Weaver

(4) Shafi

Q.10. When a manufacturing firm locates very close to its raw material suppliers or to supplying finished products, it is termed as (NTA UGC NET DEC 2020 JUNE 2021)

(1) Urbanisation economies

(2) Internal economies

(3) Marketing economies

(4) Localisation economies