Organisation : Human Resource Development Group Council of Scientific & Industrial Research
Exam : CSIR UGC NET Exam
Paper : Earth Sciences
Year : 2016
Document Type : Model Question Paper
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CSIR UGC NET Exam Earth Sciences Model Question Paper 2016 :
PART ‘A’ :
1. It takes 2 hours for Tiwari and Deo to do a job. Tiwari and Hari take 3 hours to do the same job. Deo and Hari take 6 hours to do the same job. Which of the following statements is incorrect?
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1. Tiwari alone can do the job in 3 hours
2. Deo alone can do the job in 6 hours
3. Hari does not work at all
4. Hari is the fastest worker
2. Abdul travels thrice the distance Catherine travels, which is also twice the distance that Binoy travels. Catherine’s speed is 1/3 of Abdul’s speed, which is also 1/2 of Binoy’s speed. If they start at the same time then who reaches first?
1. Both Abdul and Catherine
2. Binoy
3. Catherine
4. All three together
3. Choose the four digit number, in which the product of the first & fourth digits is 40 and the product of the middle digits is 28. The thousands digit is as much less than the unit digit as the hundreds digit is less than the tens digit.
1. 5478
2. 5748
3. 8745
4. 8475
4. A train running at 36 km/h crosses a mark on the platform in 8 sec and takes 20 sec to cross the platform. What is the length of the platform?
1. 120 m
2. 280 m
3. 40 m
4. 160 m
5. Water is slowly dripping out of a tiny hole at the bottom of a hollow metallic sphere initially full of water. Ignoring the water that has flowed away, the centre of mass of the system
1. remains fixed at the centre of the sphere
2. moves down steadily as the amount of water decreases
3. moves down for some time but eventually returns to the centre of the sphere
4. moves down until half of the water is lost and then moves up
6. The diagram (not to scale) shows the top view and cross section of a pond having a square outline and equal sized steps of 0.5 m width and 0.1m height. What will be the volume of water (in m3) in the pond when it is completely filled?
7. A person paid income tax at the rate of R% for the first Rs 2 lakhs, and at the rate of (R+10)% for income exceeding Rs 2 lakhs. If the total tax paid is (R+5)% of the annual income, then what is the annual income ?
1. Rs 2.5 lakhs
2. Rs 3.0 lakhs
3. Rs 4.0 lakhs
4. Rs 5.0 lakhs
8. A notebook contains only hundred statements as under :
1. This notebook contains 1 false statement.
2. This notebook contains 2 false statements.
99.This notebook contains 99 false statements.
100. This notebook contains 100 false statements.
This notebook contains 100 false statements. Which of the statements is correct?
1. 100th
2. 1st
3. 99th
4. 2nd
9. Compared to high frequency em waves, low frequency em waves travel in a medium with
1. a lower speed and penetrate only up to shallow depths
2. a higher speed and penetrate deeper
3. the same speed and penetrate deeper
4. the same speed and penetrate only up to shallow depths
10. The difference between the squares of the ages (in complete years) of a father and his son is 899. The age of the father when his son was born
1. cannot be ascertained due to inadequate data.
2. is 27 years.
3. is 29 years.
4. is 31 years.
PART ‘B’ :
1. Compared to basalts, granites are
1. denser and less magnetic
2. denser and more magnetic
3. lighter and more magnetic
4. lighter and less magnetic
2. The severe damage in the April, 2015 earthquake in Kathmandu is caused by
1. large intensity and deeper focus
2. large magnitude and deeper focus
3. large magnitude and proximity to the epicenter
4. deeper focus and proximity to the epicentre
3. Compared to high frequency em waves, low frequency em waves travel in a medium with
1. a lower speed and penetrate only up to shallow depths
2. a higher speed and penetrate deeper
3. the same speed and penetrate deeper
4. the same speed and penetrate only up to shallow depths
4. In the case of earthquakes, isoseismal maps are prepared for their
1. magnitude 2. energy
3. intensity 4. frequency
5. Where do you find rocks of ferromagnetic character in the Earth?
1. Crust 2. Lower mantle
3. Outer core 4. Inner core
6. Compared to the Earth, the Moon has a lower average density, because the Moon
1. is a satellite
2. is smaller in size
3. has lighter crustal rocks
4. has a thinner core
7. In which of the following mantle derived rocks, one is likely to find mantle xenoliths?
1. Andesites
2. Mid-oceanic ridge basalts
3. Komatiites
4. Kimberlites
8. Magnetic anomaly strips occur symmetrically on either side of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Similar anomaly patterns are difficult to detect in Precambrian terrains because
1. Oceans did not exist in the Precambrian
2. Precambrian oceanic crust was subducted and consumed
3. Precambrian oceanic crust was less dense
4. Mid ocean ridges did not exist in the Precambrian