SETTLEMENT GEOGRAPHY PYQS JUNE & DEC 2014 NTA UGC NET
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Q.1. Given below are two statements, one laballed as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the codes given below: (UGC NET JUNE 2014)
Assertion (A): Losch’s model is less restrictive than Christaller’s.
Reason (R): Losch treated each function as having a separate range, threshold and hexagonal hinterland.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanations of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
Answer: A
Q.2. What are the three bases for spatial interaction as described in Edward Ullman’s model? (UGC NET JUNE 2014)
(A) Complementarity, Transferability and intervening opportunities
(B) Complementarity, commodity specific relationship and surplus deficit relationship
(C) Complimentarity, convenience and residential neighborhood
(D) Human behavior, convenience and transferability
Answer: A
Q.3. A process of population deconcentration away from large urban settlements to non-metropolitan areas is termed as: (UGC NET JUNE 2014)
(A) Urban dispersal
(B) Urban sprawl
(C) Counter-urbanization
(D) Sub-urbanization
Answer: C
Q.4. In the acceleration stage of urbanisation the urban population constitutes: (UGC NET JUNE 2014)
(A) More than 70% of the total population of the state
(B) 25% to 70%
(C) 10% to 25%
(D) Less than 10%
Answer: B
Q.5. The concept of primate city was advanced by (UGC NET JUNE 2014)
(A) Jefferson
(B) Zift
(C) Mumford
(D) Sjoberg
Answer: A
Q.6. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? (UGC NET JUNE 2014)
(A) E.W. Burgess – Concept of megalopolis
(B) W. J. Reily – Law of retail gravitation
(C) G. K. Ziff – Rank-size rule
(D) Patrick Geddes – Concept of conurbation
Answer: A
Q.7. The stages of inception in the dynamics of urban growth refers to (UGC NET JUNE 2014)
(A) The factor which gives rise to a city in a particular place.
(B) The process through which separate functional districts are carved out
(C) The outward, often radial, movement of activities from the centre.
(D) The pattern of forcing activities out of an area.
Answer: A
Q.8. Match the following List – I with List – II and select the correct Answer from the codes given (UGC NET JUNE 2014)
List – I (Authors)
(A) Christaller
(B) Galphin
(C) Losch
(D) Weber
List – II (Settlements)
(i) Market Centres
(ii) Industrial Nodes
(iii) Central Places
(iv) Rurban Centres
Codes:
| A | B | C | D | |
| (A) | iii | iv | i | ii |
| (B) | iv | iii | ii | i |
| (C) | i | ii | iii | iv |
| (D) | ii | i | iv | iii |
Answer: A
Q.9. Which one of the following is the correct sequence of stages of urban development as postulated by Lewis Mumford? (UGC NET DEC 2014)
(i) Polis
(ii) Ecopolis
(iii) Megalopolis
(iv) Metropolis
(1) ii, i, iv, iii
(2) i, ii, iii, iv
(3) iii, iv, ii, i
(4) iv, iii, i, ii
Answer: 1
Q.10. Match the following List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given: (UGC NET DEC 2014)
List – I (Planners)
(A) Howard
(B) Perry
(C) Geddes
(D) Corbuser
List – II (Contributions)
(i) Neighbourhood idea
(ii) Conurbation
(iii) Radiant city
(iv) Garden city
Codes:
| A | B | C | D | |
| (1) | iv | iii | ii | i |
| (2) | iii | iv | i | ii |
| (3) | iv | i | ii | iii |
| (4) | iii | ii | i | iv |
Answer: 3