UGC NET / JRF Environmental Science Question Paper– II: June 2006

The University Grant Commission (UGC) conducted the National Eligibility Test (UGC NET/ JRF) for Junior Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Lectureship in June 2006.
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1. The correct sequence of the decreasing order of abundance of the given elements in the Earth’s crust is

(A) iron, oxygen, silicon, aluminium

(B) oxygen. aluminium, silicon, iron

(C) silicon, oxygen, iron, aluminium

(D) oxygen, silicon, aluminium, iron

2. Consider the following statement about the Himalayan orogeny

(i) The orogeny resulted from the southward movement of the Indian plate

(ii) The orogeny began about 25 million years ago

(iii) The orogeny closed about 1 million year ago

(iv) The Himalaya have a root of relatively light crustal rock projecting in the denser mantle

Of the statements

(A) (i) and (ii) are correct

(B) (iii) and (iv) are correct

(C) (i) and (iii) are correct

(D) (ii) and (iv) are correct

3. Which one of the following statement is true of braided stream ?

(A) Width of channel is less than its depth

(B) Width and depth of a channel are equal

(C) Width of channel is greater than the depth

(D) Width and depth of a channel are unrelated

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