HSST JUNIOR GEOGRAPHY ONLINE EXAM DATE:20-03-2017

HSST JUNIOR GEOGRAPHY SR FOR SC/ST

ONLINE EXAM DATE:20-03-2017
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1.What is “Baku”famous for?

A.Petroleum

B.Iron smelting

C.Locomotion

D.Silk industry

Ans:A

2.The first bank to get online banking facility in India”

A.HDFC

B.SBI

C.ICICI

D.Canara bank

Ans:A

3.The book “Vision,values and velocity”wrote by:

A.Sam Pitroda

B.Bill Gates

C.Sakundala Devi

D.N.R.Narayan

Ans:A

4.The power of Judicial review in India is:

A.Given by the Parliament

B.Given by the President

C.Explicit

D.Implicit

Ans:D

5.The Mamamkam,festival of Kerala celebrated in:

A.Once in 10 years

B.Once in 12 years

C.Once in 5 years

D.Every year

Ans:B

6.The Kurichia revolt began on:

A.25^th March 1812

B.25^th March 1810

C.12^th March 1810

D.12^th March 1809

Ans:A

7.The first Malayalam Grammar book “Leelathilakam”prepared by:

A.Herman Gundert

B.Father Kariyattil Ouseph

C.Arnos Pathiri

D.Dr.Angelos Francis

Ans:D

8.The ‘World Ozone Day’observed on:

A.September 16

B.October 16

C.September 21

D.October 21

Ans:A

9.The National Judicial Academy of India situated in:

A.Nagpur

B.Mumbai

C.Delhi

D.Bhopal

Ans:D

10.The first Malayalam newspaper “Rajyasamacharam”published by:

A.Dr.Angelos Francis

B.G.Kesavan

C.Herman Gundert

D.K.Kelappan

Ans:C

11.The marumakkathayam Act passed in Kerala in the year:

A.1913

B.1923

C.1933

D.1943

Ans:C

12.Who founded the organization “Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangham”?

A.Vagbhadanatha

B.Ayyankali

C.Chattampi Swamikal

D.Ayyaguru

Ans:B

13.The first Nair Act in Travancore passed in the year:

A.1906

B.1908

C.1910

D.1912

Ans:D

14.The Sahodara Prasthanam started by:

A.V.T.Bhattathiripad

B.K.Kelappan

C.K.Ayyappan

D.Vagbhatananda

Ans:C

15.The Hindu Succession Act passed in the year:

A.1959

B.1958

C.1957

D.1956

Ans:D

16.The Sanskrit book”Bhakti Manjary”wrote by:

A.Gauri Lakshmi Bhai

B.Swati Tirunal

C.Kalidasa

D.V.T.Bhattathiripad

Ans:B

17.Indian Constitution adopted concurrent lists from the constitution of:

A.Canada

B.Australia

C.Ireland

D.U.S.A

Ans:B

18.Among the fundamental rights of Indian Constitution the Right to Property eliminated by the:

A.42^nd Amendment Act

B.43^rd Amendment Act

C.44^th Amendment Act

D.45^th Amendment Act

Ans:C

19.The financial emergency  declared by the President of India mentioned in the :

A.Article 352

B.Article 356

C.Article 360

D.Article 370

Ans:C

20.Part XVIII(18^th)of Indian Constitution contains:

A.Fundamental duties

B.Emergency provisions

C.Municipalities

D.Panchayats

Ans:B

21.Development of democratic citizenship is:

A.A goal of education

B.A learning outcome
C.A process competency

D.An Instructional objective

Ans:A

22.Which of the following  methods can enhance pupil-pupil interaction in a class?

A.Experiment

B.Lecture

C.Peer tutoring

D.Problem solving

Ans:C

23.Which of the following is the most important duty of a teacher?

A.To come regularly and attend students feeling

B.To create a classroom environment

C.To guide them to appear for examinations without anxiety

D.To motivate the learner to learn how to learn

Ans:D

24.Which one is an advantage of expository teaching?

A.Higher learner participation

B.Highly interactive

C.More content coverage

D.Suitable for small groups

Ans:C

25.Which of the following will be the most popular for assessing students attitude towards study tasks?

A.Internal tests

B.Scales

C.Observation

D.Sociometric techniques

Ans:B

26.A researcher studies the effect of anxiety on students achievement.Which category of variable is anxiety?

A.Control

B.Dependent

C.Independent

D.Intervening

Ans:C

27.If a researcher sends a questionnaire to every 5^th person from the sample frame,sampling technique is:

A.Cluster sampling

B.Judgemental sampling

C.Stratified sampling

D.Systematic sampling

Ans:D

28.Qualitative research is characterized by:

A.Context specifically

B.Deductive

C.Generalizability

D.Hypotheses testing

Ans:A

29.What is ISSN?

A.International Specific Series Number

B.International Standard  Serial Number

C.International Standard Subscriber Number

D.International Subscriber Standard Number

Ans:B

30.A research result that cannot be generalized is lacking in:

A.External criticism

B.External validity

C.Internal criticism

D.Internal validity

Ans:B

31.The person who enunciated the principle of Uniformitarianism

A.James Hutton

B.Penk

C.V.M.Davis

D.Huss

Ans:A

32.The largest division of the Geologic time scale:

A.Division

B.Eons

C.Periods

D.Epochs

Ans:B

33.The person associated with the concept of Isostasy:

A.Airy

B.Wegner

C.W.M.Davis

D.Hess

Ans:A

34.The process of temperature decrease due to the expansion of rising air is called as:

A.Adiabatic cooling

B.Inversion of temperature

C.Adiabatic heating

D.Latent heat of condensation

Ans:A

35.The percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere:

A.30%

B.25%

C.24%

D.21%

Ans:D

36.A line which connects points of equal wind speed:

A.Isobar

B.Isotach

C.Isohaline

D.Isopycnal

Ans:B

37.Which is the high cloud?

A.Cirrus

B.Altocumulus

C.Altostratus

D.Stratocumulus

Ans:A

38.The Humboldt Current is the ocean current of:

A.Indian Ocean

B.Atlantic Ocean

C.Arctic Ocean

D.Pacific Ocean

Ans:D

39.A sand or gravel bar that connect an island with another island or the mainland:

A.Haffs

B.Spits

C.Hook

D.Tombolo

Ans:D

40.The place or set of environmental condition in which a particular organism lives is called:

A.Mutation

B.Habitat

C.Epiphyte

D.Locality

Ans:B

41.The country which shares shortest border with India:

A.Bangladesh

B.China

C.Afghanistan

D.Nepal

Ans:C

42.A tributary of Krishna River:

A.Musi

B.Kolar

C.Sabari

D.Jonk

Ans:A

43.Which year is called ‘Demographic Divide’in india?

A.1924

B.1921

C.1923

D.1920

Ans:B

44.The headquarter of North Eastern Railway Zone:

A.New Delhi

B.Guwahati

C.Gorakhpur

D.Kolkata

Ans:C

45.The plant TISCO located:

A.Bihar

B.Jharkhand

C.Chattisgarh

D.West Bengal

Ans:B

46.The land share of Kerala in India:

A.1.25%

B.1.66%

C.1.18%

D.2%

Ans:C

47.The largest coffee producing state in India:

A.Tamil Nadu

B.Karnataka

C.Kerala

D.Assam

Ans:B

48.The Manchester of South India:

A.Chennai

B.Salem

C.Hyderabad

D.Coimbatore

Ans:D

49.The least populated district in Kerala according to 2011 Census

A.Wayanad

B.Idukki

C.Kasaragod

D.Alappuzha

Ans:D

50.The longest river in South India:

A.Mahanadi

B.Krishna

C.Godavari

D.Cauvery

Ans:C

51.The supporter of Pragmatism:

A.Plato

B.Raztel

C.John Dewey

D.Store Kierkegaard

Ans:C

52.The book ‘Almagest’was written by:

A.Ptolemy

B.Huntington

C.Semple

D.Frobel

Ans:A

53.The ‘T-in-O’map was constructed during the period of:

A.Modern period

B.Early Medieval period

C.Ancient period

D.Late Medieval period

Ans:B

54.The Heartland Theory is the contribution of:

A.Ratzel

B.Emmanuel Kant

C.M.Davis

D.Halford John Mackinder

Ans:D

55.The person who first attempted to calculate the circumference of the earth:

A.Eratosthenes

B.Strabo

C.Herodotus

D.Aristotle

Ans:A

56.The supporter Stop and Go Determinism:

A.Slache

B.Al-Masudi

C.Griffith Taylor

D.Jean Brunhes

Ans:C

57.Who invented the instrument ‘Astrolabe’for the determination of latitudes and longitudes?

A.Ptolemy

B.Eratosthenes

C.Homer

D.Hipparchus

Ans:D

58.The approach which describes physical setting is the more dominant factor than human is:

A.Possibilism

B.Determinism

C.Social Darwinism

D.Stop and Go Determinism

Ans:B

59.The book of Thomas Kuhn:

A.The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

B.Historical memoir

C.Outline of geography

D.Almagest

Ans:A

60.The father of Exceptionalism in geography:

A.Strabo

B.Huntington

C.Emmanuel Kant

D.Hutton

Ans:C

61.The lines which connect places of same rainfall:

A.Isochrones

B.Isohyets

C.Isotherms

D.Isohels

Ans:B

62.Data that describe the characteristic of spatial features:

A.Non spatial data

B.Colour data

C.Discrete data

D.Attribute data

Ans:D

63.A spatial data model that uses a grid to represent the spatial variation of a feature:

A.Vector data model

B.Raster data model

C.Spatial model

D.Relational data model

Ans:B

64.Data that provide information about spatial data:

A.Meta data

B.Vector data

C.Raster data

D.Digital data

Ans:A

65.Processes of superimposing two or more images or photographs so that equivalent geographic point coincide is called:

A.Referencing

B.Redundancy

C.Registration

D.Refraction

Ans:C

66.Which is the large scale map

A.Wall map

B.Atlas map

C.Thematic map

D.Cadastral map

Ans:D

67.International map projections is a modification of:

A.Bonnes projection

B.Polyconic projection

C.Sterographic projection

D.Orthographic projection

Ans:B

68.The process of converting raster line into vector lines through tracing is called as:

A.Polarization

B.Scanning

C.Vectorization

D.Data formatting

Ans:C

69.The Hythergraph is used to show the distribution of:

A.Temperature and Rainfall

B.Humidity and Temperature

C.Rainfall and Crops

D.Snowfall

Ans:A

70.A sub-field of mathematics that is applied in GIS to ensure that the spatial relationships between features are expressed explicity is known as:

A.Taxonomy

B.Topology

C.Topostudy

D.Toponomism

Ans:B

71.The term used to indicate the stage of world urbanization:

A.Megalopolis

B.Metropolis

C.Ecumonopolis

D.Tyranopolis

Ans:C

72.The hypothetical pattern of multiple nuclei theory was developed by:

A.Harris and Ullman

B.Homer Hoyt

C.R.M.Hurd

D.E.W.Burgess

Ans:A

73.The concept ‘Umland’means:

A.Land around industry

B.Land around slum

C.Land around village

D.Land around a city

Ans:D

74.An example for ghost city:

A.Harappa

B.Raipur

C.Jaipur

D.Bhopal

Ans:A

75.According to Christaller,K 7 in the hierarchy of central places theory stands for:

A.Marketing principle

B.Transportation principle

C.Administrative principle

D.Trade principle

Ans:C

76.The periods of Second Five Year Plan in India:

A.1955-1960

B.1957-1962

C.1954-1959

D.1956-1961

Ans:D

77.The First Five Year Plan of India gave more importance to:

A.Industry

B.Air transportation

C.Agriculture

D.Trade

Ans:C

78.The Growth pole theory originally developed by:

A.Christaller

B.Francis Perroux

C.Zipf

D.Ullman

Ans:B

79.The programme sponsored by Government of India for rural development:

A.IRDP

B.IAAP

C.IADP

D.HYVP

Ans:A

80.The first Chairman of Planning Commission of India:

A.Sardar-Vallabhbhai Patel

B.Jawaharlal Nehru

C.Dr.Radhakrishnan

D.Rjagopalachari

Ans:B

81.A region which is characterized by high temperature and heavy rainfall throughout the year

A.Tropical Monsoon region

B.Tropical high land region

C.Mediterranean region

D.Equatorial region

Ans:D

82.The temperature grasslands of South Africa:

A.Prairies

B.Velds

C.Pampas

D.Downs

Ans:B

83.An example for Non renewable resource:

A.Coal

B.Solar energy

C.Water

D.Wind

Ans:A

84.The third largest populated country in the world:

A.Brazil

B.United State of America

C.Indonesia

D.Pakistan

Ans:B

85.Name of the shifting cultivation in North-East India:

A.Chena

B.Tamrai

C.Milpa

D.Jhuming

Ans:D

86.Viticulture meant for:

A.Lemon cultivation

B.Apple cultivation

C.Orange cultivation

D.Grape cultivation

Ans:D

87.The longest railway line in the world:

A.Canadian railway

B.Sydney-Porth railway

C.Tran-Siberian railway

D.Philadelphia railway

Ans:C

88.The term Boreal refers to:

A.Taiga forest

B.Swampy forest

C.Mangrove forest

D.Monsoon forest

Ans:A

89.The Kalahai Desert is located at:

A.North America

B.South America

C.South Africa

D.Australia

Ans:C

90.The development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs is called:

A.Biological development

B.Urban development

C.Economic development

D.Sustainable development

Ans:D

91.Which gas increase in the atmosphere –is major cause to global warming?

A.Argon

B.Oxygen

C.Carbon dioxide

D.Hydrogen

Ans:C

92.The Kyoto Protocol:

A.Treaty for trade

B.Treaty to reduce greenhouse gases emissions

C.Treaty for deforestation

D.Treaty to ban child labour

Ans:B

93.The satellite,Astrosat launched by India for the study of:

A.Resource mapping

B.Disaster management

C.Weather phenoma

D.Celestial objects

Ans:D

94.Who described the quantitative revolution in geography as”a radical transformation of the spirit and purpose of Geography”?

A.Ptolemy

B.Humboldt

C.Burton

D.Huntington

Ans:C

95.A philosophical view that man is responsible for making his own nature:

A.Idealism

B.Radicalism

C.Rationalism

D.Existentialism

Ans:D

96.A sudden,aggressive and very heavy rainfall is called:

A.Storm burst

B.Water burst

C.Thunder burst

D.Cloud burst

Ans:D

97.The headquarter of Survey of India:

A.Dehra Dun

B.Mumbai

C.New Delhi

D.Kolkata

Ans:A

98.Which method of data collection is called as ‘the Social Microscope’by Burgess?

A.Interview method

B.Observation method

C.Case Study method

D.Sample method

Ans:C

99.The process of examining the collected  raw data to detect its errors,omission and correction is called as:

A.Classification

B.Coding

C.Editing

D.Tabulation

Ans:C

100.In the layout of research report,’acknowledgement’comes under:

A.Appendix

B.The main text

C.Reference

D.Preliminary section

Ans:D