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31.

Who stated that the slope profiles are convex, plane or concave according to the circumstances of the uplifting action ?

  • Penck

  • Davis 

  • Johnson

  • Wood


32.

The premise that the present day processes have been operating throughout geological time is the principle of :

  • Isostasy

  • Diastrophism

  • Uniformitarianism

  • Catastrophism


33.

LIST I

(Scholar)

LIST II

(Theory)

(a) Hall and Dana (1) Sea Floor Spreading 
(b) Hutton (2) Thermal Contraction Theory
(c) Harry Hess (3) Theory of Geosyncline
(d) Jeffrey (4) Doctrine of Uniformitarianism
  • a-1 , b-2 , c-4 , d-3

  • a-2 , b-1 , c-3 , d-4

  • a-4 , b-2 , c-1 , d-3

  • a-3 , b-4 , c-1 , d-2


34.

ASSERTION (A) : There is a close relationship between volcanic activities and plate margins.

REASON (R) : A vast majority of the world's volcanoes are associated with the convergent plate margins.

  • Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

  • Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

  • (A) is true , but (R) is false.

  • (A) is false , but (R) is true.


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35.
LIST I LIST II
(a) Glacial (1) Alluvial fan
(b) Marine (2) Yardangs
(c) Fluvial  (3) Arete
(d) Aeolian (4) Tombolo
  • a-2 , b-1 , c-3 , d-4

  • a-4 , b-2 , c-1 , d-4

  • a-3 , b-4 , c-2 , d-1

  • a-3 , b-4 , c-1 , d-2


36.

LIST I 

(Author)

LIST II

(Book)

(a) J.A.Steers (1) Morphological Analysis of Landforms
(b) S.W.Wooldridge (2) Principles of Geomorphology
(c) Walter Penck (3) Unstable Earth
(d) Thornbury (4) Spirit and Purpose of Geography
  • a-2 , b-3 , c-4 , d-1

  • a-1 , b-4 , c-2 , d-3 

  • a-4 , b-2 , c-1 , d-3

  • a-3 , b-4 , c-1 , d-2


37.

 

LIST I 

(Plate Name)

LIST II

(Direction of Movement)

(a) Indo-Australian plate (1) East
(b) Cocos plate (2) West
(c) Pacific plate (3) North
(d) Nazca plate (4) North-West
  • a-3 , b-4 , c-1 , d-2

  • a-3 , b-4 , c-2 , d-1

  • a-3 , b-2 , c-1 , d-4

  • a-1 , b-2 , c-3 ,d-4


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38.

Which one of the following periods when the sea level around world , was as much as 130 meters lower than today ?

  • Holocene

  • Pleistocene

  • Miocene

  • Cambrian


B.

Pleistocene


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39.

Which one of the following mountains is formed due to convergence of one oceanic and one continental plate ?

  • Urals

  • Alps

  • Andes

  • Appalachians


40.

Which one of the following processes is responsible for the weathering of rocks in a Karst region ?

  • Hydrolysis

  • Carbonation

  • Oxidation

  • Scree formation


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