Uttar Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test : Previous Years Paper With Answer Keys

Uttar Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test

Exam held on dated 22.02.2015

1. Who used the word 'Plate' for the first time?

1. Arthur Holmes 
2. Tuzo Wilson 
3. Le Pichon 
4. Harry Hess

2. The writer of the book 'Geographia Generalis's is–

1. Varenius 
2. Cluverius 
3. Humboldt 
4. Kant

3. The place situated on the surface, where earthquake is felt first–

1. epicentre 
2. focus 
3. centripetal 
4. None of these 

4. Where is found the best example of karst topography?

1. Yugoslavia 
2. France 
3. Mexico 
4. China

5. Economic geography is the branch of which subject?

1. Human geography 
2. Physical geography
3. Urban geography 
4. Political geography

6. Tell the wrong pair of the places and their industries–

1. Titagarh – Jute industry 
2. Mumbai – Iron and steel industry
3. Korba – Aluminium 
4. Dhariwal – Woolen textile

7. 'Mona Loa' is an active volcano of–

1. Hawaie islands 
2. Alaska 
3. Italy 
4. Japan

8. Which of the following soils of India is most suitable for cotton cultivation?

1. Regur soil 
2. Laterite soil 
3. Alluvial soil 
4. Red soil

9. Who has said that "Landscape is a function of structure, process and stage"?

1. Walter Penck 
2. W. M. Davis 
3. G. K. Gilbert 
4. L. C. King

10. Which of the following waterfalls of India is located in Goa ?

1. Landshing Falls 
2. Dhunwadhar Falls
3. Dudhsagar Falls 
4. Nokhalikai Falls

11. Which of the following Ocean currents does not belong to Indian Ocean ?

1. Agluhas current 
2. Mozambique current
3. South Indian Ocean current 
4. Benguela current

12. OX-bow lake is also known as–

1. Billabong 
2. Mort Lake 
3. Bayou 
4. All of these

13. The busiest oceanic route is–

1. Suez Canal Route 
2. Cape of good hope Route
3. North Atlantic Route 
4. Panama Canal Route

14. Average depth of Atlantic Ocean–

1. 4000 metre 
2. 4200 metre 
3. 3900 metre 
4. 3000 metre

15. Canary cold current flows–

1. near by Africa 
2. near by Asia
3. near by North America 
4. near by South America

16. Dualisms in nature of geography is–

1. rural and urban geography 
2. economic and resource geography
3. population and settlement geography 
4. regional and systematic geography

17. Assertion (A.) : Bihar is a back-ward state of the country.
Reason (R) : It is characterized by regional disparities in the level of development.
Select the correct answer from the orders given below–

1. Both (A.) and (R) are correct and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A.)
2. Both (A.) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A.)
3. (A.) is true, but (R) is false
4. R is true, but (A.) is false

18. The term cosmography is coined by–

1. Mackinder 
2. Humboldt 
3. Kant 
4. Ptolemy

19. 'World Environment Day' is observed on–

1. April 5 
2. June 5 
3. August 5 
4. October 5

20. Where are tropical evergreen forests found?

1. Assam 
2. Odisha 
3. West Bengal 
4. All of these

21. In which economic activity does manufacturing come?

1. Primary 
2. Secondary 
3. Tertiary 
4. Quaternary

22. Which of the following land-forms is not formed by glacier erosion?

1. Hanging Valley 
2. Horn 
3. Tarn 
4. Drumlin

23. In terms of population as per 2011 census, the correct sequence of the following districts of Uttar Pradesh in descending order is–

1. Moradabad, Allahabad, Ghaziabad, Lucknow 
2. Lucknow, Allahabad, Ghaziabad, Moradabad
3. Allahabad, Moradabad, Ghaziabad, Lucknow 
4. Ghaziabad, Lucknow, Moradabad, Allahabad

24. Coalescence theory of rain was propounded by–

1. Peterson 
2. Bergeron 
3. Vonnegut 
4. Bowen

25. The geographers who recognized geography as a chronological science of landscape morphology was–

1. Sauer 
2. Davis 
3. Huntington 
4. Hartshorne

26. Match List-I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below–
     List-I                                           List-II
(a.) Tilaiya Dam                             1. Damodar
(b.) Panchet Hill Dam                    2. Chambal
(c.) Rana Pratap Sagar Dam          3. Barakar
(d.) Mata Tila Dam                        4. Betwa

1. 3 1 2 4
2. 2 3 4 1
3. 4 1 2 3
4. 1 2 3 4

27. The concept of 'Areal differentiation' is also termed as–

1. exceptionalism 
2. chorological study
3. systematic geography 
4. regionalism

28. National Botanical Garden of India is situated in–

1. Mumbai 
2. New Delhi 
3. Lucknow 
4. Bengaluru

29. Most urbanized state of India is–

1. Goa 
2. Punjab 
3. Nagaland 
4. Sikkim

30. 'Cosmos' book was written by one of the following scholars?

1. Humboldt 
2. Retzel 
3. Ritter 
4. Hettner

31. Which category of rocks Lopolith and Phacolith are?

1. Igneous Rocks 
2. Sedimentary Rocks
3. Metamorphic Rocks 
4. None of these

32. Which is the newer mountain range?

1. Aravali 
2. Himalaya 
3. Vindhyachal 
4. Satpura

33. What is means of inversion of temperature?

1. decreasing of temperature with height 
2. increasing of temperature with height
3. same temperature 
4. decreasing temperature with latitudinal growth

34. Which organisms use both grass and flesh biothings for their meal ?

1. Herbivorous 
2. Carnivorous 
3. Omnivorous 
4. None of these

35. According to 2011 census the density of population per kilo-meter in India is–

1. 382 
2. 325 
3. 372 
4. 335

36. The highest peak of Uttarakhand is–

1. Nanda Devi 
2. Kamet 
3. Kedarnath 
4. Badrinath

37. The cheapest means of transport is–

1. road transport 
2. water transport 
3. rail transport 
4. air transport

38. Diamond is a metamorphic rock what is its original form?

1. Sand stone 
2. Gneiss
3. Coal 
4. None of these

39. Who of the following used the term 'Deep Ecology' for the first time?

1. E. P. Odum 
2. C. Raunkiaer 
3. F. E. Clements 
4. Arnies Naess

40. Which one of the following branches of geography is related with physical Geography?

1. Settlement geography 
2. Population geography
3. Geomorphology 
4. Agricultural geography

41. The main aim of 'Chipko Movement' is–

1. to save trees 
2. to save female
3. to save religion 
4. to save education

42. In India maximum rubber producing state is–

1. Tamil Nadu 
2. Karnataka 
3. Andaman Nicobar 
4. Kerala

43. The founder of the concept of areal differentiation in Geography is–

1. Retzel 
2. Marthe 
3. Hettner 
4. Eratosthenes

44. Where is Wuhan Industrial Region?

1. China 
2. Italy 
3. France 
4. Japan

45. In which of the following year the 'Central Ganga Authority' by Government of India was constituted?

1. 1975 
2. 1982 
3. 1985 
4. 1995

46. Which of the following mountains is not the result of Tertiary orogeny?

1. Kunlun Mountain 
2. Applachians Mountain
3. Alps Mountain 
4. Andes Mountain

47. In which of the following states alluvial soil is very scanty ?

1. Punjab 
2. Madhya Pradesh 
3. Tamil Nadu 
4. Bihar

48. "Regional geography is core of geography." The statement is given by–

1. Dickinson 
2. Hartshorne 
3. Blache 
4. Herbertson

49. Nepanagar is related to which industry ?

1. Fertilizers 
2. Newsprint paper 
3. Sarees 
4. Woolen textiles

50. Which geographer's said "Change is the law of Nature" ?

1. Brunhes 
2. Blache 
3. Humboldt
4. Huntington

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