San Andreas Fault is a : from Geography UGC NET Year 2017 Free

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Geography UGC NET

Class

UGCNET Class 12

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 Multiple Choice QuestionsTrue Or False

1.

Which of the following statements is not true about a state ?

A.

It always has a social or cultural base.

B.

It has a territorial base.

C.

It claims internal sovereignty.

D.

It claims sovereignty in external relations.


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2.

Mohorovicic discontinuity marks the boundary between :

  • Continental shelf and Ocean crust

  • Asthenosphere

  • Crust and upper mantle

  • Core and mantle


3.

The process in which one plate slides beneath another is known as :

  • Advection

  • Subduction

  • Convergence

  • Convection


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4.

San Andreas Fault is a :

  • Transform fault

  • Converging fault

  • Spreading fault

  • Submergent fault


A.

Transform fault

San Andreas Fault ia continental transform fault that extends 1,200 km through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and North American Plate and its motion is at  horizontal right-lateral strike slip.

A transform fault is a fault whose motion is pre-dominantly horizontal.


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5.

Which one of the following is a fluvio-glacial deposit ?

  • Pediplain

  • Kame Terrace

  • Floodplain

  • Loess plain


6.

Which one of the following ranges of percentages of increase of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1750 is correct ?

  • 5-10%

  • 10-15%

  • 15-30%

  • More than 30%


7.

ASSERTION (A) : The shift of ITCZ is greater over sea than over land.

REason (R) : The land surface gets more heated than the water bodies.

  • 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.


8.

The UVI (Ultra Violet Index) was developed in : 

  • 1950s

  • 1990s

  • 2000s

  • 2010s


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9.

Who among the following scholars has given the Subsidence Theory relating to coral reefs ?

  • Dally

  • Davis

  • Dutton

  • Darwn 


10.

LIST I 

(Gases)

LIST II

(% of gases in atmosphere)

(a) N2 (1) 0.0934
(b) Ar (2) 0.039
(c) O2 (3) 78
(d) CO2 (4) 21
  • (a)-3 , (b)-1 , (c)-2 , (d)-4

  • (a)-1 , (b)-3 , (c)-2 , (d)-4

  • (a)-3 , (b)-1 , (c)-4 , (d)-2

  • (a)-2 , (b)-4 , (c)-1 , (d)-3


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