lbscentre.info State Eligibility Test Geography Question Paper 2017 : LBS Centre for Science & Technology
Name of the Organisation : LBS Centre for Science & Technology
Exam : State Eligibility Test
Subject : Geography
Year : 2017 Feb
Document Type : Model & Past Question Papers
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State Eligibility Test Geography Question Paper :
Time : 120 Minutes
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1. Which of the following soil types has least developed soil profile?
A) Vertisol
B) Entisol
C) Spodosol
D) Ulfisol
2. In Geological time scale Palaeozoic era refers to:
A) 100 to 200 million years ago
B) 200 to 300 million years ago
C) 300 to 600 million years ago
D) 500 to 900 million years ago
3. Which of the following cities has the highest annual range of temperature?
A) Mumbai
B) Moscow
C) Manchester
D) Milan
4. Consider the following statements with regard to isotherms and identify the correct answer using codes given below:
1. Thermal equator is located in the Northern Hemisphere
2. In the tropical areas of Northern Hemisphere isotherms take a southward curve
in July when they move from sea to land
3. In the higher latitudes of Southern Hemisphere isotherms are almost a straight line
A) 1 and 2 are correct
B) 1 and 3 are correct
C) Only 2 is correct
D) Only 3 is correct
5. Khamsin refers to a:
A) Hot wind in Italy
B) Cold wind in Austria
C) Hot wind in Egypt
D) Hot wind in Jordan
6. The greatest environmental disaster due to human activity happened in:
A) Red sea
B) Aral sea
C) Baltic sea
D) Yellow sea
7. The ‘k’ value for Administrative Principle in Christaller’s Central Place Theory is
A) 2
B) 4
C) 6
D) 7
8. Small fortified towns that were developed in France during Medieval period are called:
A) Bastides
B) Baroque city
C) Early dynastic towns
D) Primate towns
9. The most important development in Geographical Methodology that took place during 1950s is:
A) Quantitative Revolution
B) Central Place Model
C) Sea Floor spreading concept
D) Von Thunen Model
10. Identify the correct sequence in descending order of the following language families in terms of the number of people speaking them.
A) Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic
B) Afro-Asiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Indo-European, Niger-Congo
C) Sino-Tibetan, Afro-Asiatic, Indo-European, Niger-Congo
D) Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo
11. Leptorrhine, a parameter used in racial classification is related to human:
A) Blood group
B) Head
C) Hair
D) Nose
12. Barmer in Rajasthan is significant for the production of:
A) Copper
B) Petroleum
C) Zinc
D) Uranium
13. Among the Indian States the largest producer of fruits in 2014 is:
A) Himachal Pradesh
B) Tamil Nadu
C) Maharashtra
D) Kerala
14. The headquarters of Indian Meteorological Department is located at:
A) Pune
B) Kolkata
C) Bengaluru
D) Mumbai
15. The Indian Space Research Organization was established in:
A) 1969
B) 1972
C) 1974
D) 1979
16. Set of points located at the edges or corners of aerial photograph are known as
A) Principal points
B) Fiducial marks
C) Georeference points
D) Co ordinates
17. A set of procedures for encoding and manipulating bearings, distances and angles of Survey data into Co ordinate data is known as:
A) COGO
B) Cartesian coordinate system
C) Calibration
D) Cascading
18. Assembling large images from smaller segments that have common angular orientations, cell sizes and map projections is called
A) Aliasing
B) Tiling
C) Thinning
D) Skeletonizing
19. Change in position of an image from one aerial photograph to the next by the aircraft’s motion is known as:
A) Parallax
B) Displacement
C) Tilting
D) Drift
20. Survey of India toposheet with 1:250000 scale represents an area covering:
A) 1° latitude and 1° longitude
B) 45’ latitude and 45’ longitude
C) 30’ latitude and 30’ longitude
D) 15’ latitude and 15’ longitude