KUET 2023 Question Paper M.Sc. Geoinformatics

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KUET 2023 Question Paper M.Sc. Geoinformatics

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ENTRANCE TEST-2023
SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND EARTH SCIENCES

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GEOINFORMATICS

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1. (10101)2 + (1101)2 = 6. It is believed by some geologists that Dal Lake is the
(A) (110010)2 remnant of a Pleistocene oligotrophic lake.
Pleistocene Epoch began around :
(B) (110101)2
(A) 1.8 million years ago
(C) (100010)2
(D) (101100)2 (B) 2.58 million years ago
(C) 3.6 million years ago
2. SSD stands for :
(D) 5.33 million years ago
(A) Solid Storage Drive
(B) Serial Storage Drive 7. Playa is a landform associated with :
(A) Glaciers
(C) Solid Static Drive
(B) Deserts
(D) Solid State Drive
3. Which one is not a GIS programming language ? (C) River basin
(D) Coasts
(A) Fedora
8. An overturned fold in which the axial surface is more
(B) Java
or less horizontal, is called :
(C) C++
(A) Recumbent fold
(D) Python
(B) Chevron fold
4. ________ is a network of devices that have
(C) Isoclinal fold
embedded hardware and software to communicate
(connect and exchange data) with other devices on (D) Ptygmatic fold
the same network. 9. Headquarters of the National Bureau of Soil Survey
(A) Internet of Things & Land Use Planning is located in :

(B) Virtual Private Network (A) Hyderabad

(C) Telnet (B) Srinagar

(D) Ping (C) Nagpur

5. The boundary surface between the earth’s mantle and (D) Lucknow
core is called : 10. Exfoliation is a result of :
(A) Gutenberg discontinuity (A) Metamorphism
(B) Mohorovicic discontinuity (B) Physical Weathering
(C) Lehmann discontinuity (C) Chemical Weathering
(D) Conrad discontinuity (D) Splash Erosion

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17. Pong Reservoir is built on which river ?
(A) Existing fertility and productivity (A) Beas
(B) The potential for agricultural and other uses
(B) Sutlej
(C) Capacity to resist soil erosion
(C) Myntdu
(D) All of these

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(C) Hygrometer
(D) Lysimeter
(A) 0.2 and 0.5 micrometers
19. Hydropower potential estimation is not dependent
(B) 0.4 and 0.7 micrometers
on :
(C) 0.6 and 0.9 micrometers
(D) None of the above (A) Head

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of a floodplain are called :
15. GIS is :
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(A) A container of maps in digital form
(B) Levee
(B) A computerized tool for solving geographic
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(C) Spur (C) Debris slide
(D) None of these (D) Avalanche

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22. The 13th Goal of the United Nations Department of 27. On a 1:50,000 toposheet, the distance between two
Economics and Social Affairs is focused on : villages is found to be 2 cm. What is their ground
(A) Clean Water and Sanitation distance ?
(B) Climate Change (A) 1000 m
(C) Affordable and Clean Energy (B) 10 km

(D) Sustainable Cities and Communities (C) 25 km

23. The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, (D) 10 m
on : 28. Geological Survey of India has recently reported
(A) 14 June 1992 Lithium and Gold deposits in which district of Jammu
(B) 22 April 2016 & Kashmir ?

(C) 11 December 1997 (A) Rajouri
(B) Ramban
(D) 18 March 2015
(C) Reasi
24. As per the Central Pollution Control Board, Ministry
of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, the (D) Kulgam
threshold of Very Poor to Severe National Air Quality 29. An individual’s collection of genes is called :
Index (AQI) value is : (A) Genotype
(A) 400 (B) Phenotype
(B) 350 (C) Trait
(C) 300 (D) Allele
(D) 250 30. Male reproductive part of a flower is called :
25. Which Wildlife Sanctuary is not located in Jammu and (A) Zygote
Kashmir ? (B) Sepal
(A) Jasrota (C) Pistil
(B) Overa Aru (D) Stamen
(C) Kibber 31. Net Primary Productivity of an ecosystem is measured
(D) Hirapora by :
26. Metrorail Network Map is an ideal example of : (A) Biomass production during photosynthesis
(A) Chloropleth (B) Gross primary productivity minus respiration
(B) Isopleth losses
(C) Cartogram (C) Formation of new organic matter by consumers
(D) Heat map (D) None of the above

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32. The movement of materials from the leaves to other 37. Which law describes the orbits of planets around the
tissues of the plant is called : sun ?

(A) Tropic movement (A) Newton’s law

(B) Guttation (B) Faraday’s law

(C) Transpiration (C) Kepler’s law

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(D) Colon
(A) Fastest in vacuum
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(B) Fastest in water
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(A) Mucous (D) Zinc
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43. Which law states that the volume of an ideal gas at 48. Which glacier in Kashmir is locally named ‘Gwash
constant pressure is directly proportional to its Brani’ - Goddess of Light ?
absolute temperature ? (A) Thajwas
(A) Joule’s law (B) Nehnar
(B) Avogadro’s law (C) Kolahoi
(C) Boyle’s law (D) Panjtarni
(D) Charles’s law
49. Most of the weather phenomena take place in the :
44. Removal of oxygen from a compound is an example
(A) Mesosphere
of :
(B) Troposphere
(A) Oxidation
(C) Stratosphere
(B) Reduction
(D) Ionosphere
(C) Oxygenation
50. The solar energy received at the earth’s surface is
(D) None of the above
called :
45. The main aim of social forestry is :
(A) Energy budget
(A) To utilize the wasteland
(B) Diffusion
(B) To meet the requirement of fuel wood and
(C) Albedo
fodder
(D) Insolation
(C) To create an ecological balance
51. Which among the following is not a renewable source
(D) None of these
of energy ?
46. In a food chain, the third trophic level is always
occupied by : (A) Solar energy

(A) Carnivores (B) Biomass energy

(B) Herbivores (C) Hydro-power

(C) Producers (D) Geothermal energy

(D) Decomposers 52. Which one is a reliable tool for studying
47. Which biogeochemical cycle is the slowest ? paleoclimates ?

(A) Carbon (A) Tree-ring reconstruction

(B) Nitrogen (B) Ice-core study

(C) Phosphorus (C) Coral reefs

(D) Sulphur (D) All of these

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(B) Mode < Median > Mean (B) n!

(C) Mode > Median > Mean (C) 2n

(D) Mean > Median > Mode (D) 2n!

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equation ? order 4×3, then the order of QP is :
(A) Intercept (A) 4 × 3
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