Physical Geography (UGC/NET)

Physical Geography

11 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who said that the landscape is a function of structure, process and time?

  1. W. M. Davis
  2. Ratzel
  3. Kant
  4. Humboldt
  5. Herodotus
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The concept of ‘present is the key to the past’ was given by

  1. James Hutton
  2. Herodotus
  3. Eratosthenes
  4. Ptolemy
  5. W. M. Davis
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Delta is the depositional feature at the mouth of a river. Who gave the term delta?

  1. Hecateus
  2. Herodotus
  3. Aristotle
  4. Ptolemy
  5. W. M. Davis
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which of the following folds, both the limbs become parallel as well as horizontal?

  1. Monoclinal fold
  2. Isoclinal fold
  3. Recumbent fold
  4. Overturned fold
  5. Open fold
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who gave the concept of ‘seafloor spreading’?

  1. A. G. Wegener
  2. Vidal de la Blache
  3. Hary Hess
  4. W. M. Davis
  5. Ptolemy
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following faults is formed due to the movement of both the fractured rock blocks towards each other?

  1. Normal fault
  2. Reverse fault
  3. Lateral fault
  4. Step fault
  5. Strike-slip fault
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following earthquake waves covers the longest distance?

  1. Primary waves
  2. Secondary waves
  3. Love waves
  4. Rayleigh waves
  5. Stoneley waves
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is also called ozonosphere?

  1. Troposphere
  2. Stratosphere
  3. Mesosphere
  4. Thermosphere
  5. Exosphere
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a metamorphic rock?

  1. Basalt
  2. Granite
  3. Limestone
  4. Gneiss
  5. Shale
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a warm and dry wind which blows in the USA?

  1. Chinook
  2. Harmattan
  3. Sirocco
  4. Mistral
  5. Bora
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a warm current?

  1. Canary current
  2. Labrador current
  3. Brazil current
  4. Falkland current
  5. Benguela current