Geography 2001 CSS Past Paper

GEOGRAPHY PAPER-I

Time Allowed: Three Hours Maximum Marks: 100

NOTE: Attempt FIVE questions in all, includingwhich is COMPULSORY. All questions carry EQUAL marks. Illustrate your answer with sketch maps and diagrams wherever necessary.

1. What is meant by Ocean Currents? How the different types of Currents are caused? Highlight the currents of Atlantic Ocean with the help of a sketch map.

2. What are earthquakes? How closely are they connected with earth mo vements? Elaborate their effects and distributions in fhe main regions of the world.

3. Define glacier. How would you categorise them according to ihc mode of formation? Explain with the help of diagrams the characteristic, features of a glaciated region.

4. There are certain winds which generated by terrestrial peculiarities and are named accordingly. Pin point/explain such winds (world-wide) with their properties and effects in me prevailing areas.

5. What are main characteristics of thunderstorm? How arc they classified? Also explain their zonal distribution.

6. Differentiate the weather and topographical maps? Briefly express the various terms/features which arc associated with these maps.

7. Write short notes on trte following:-

(a) Geysers

(b) Bonne's Modified Conical Projection

(c) Adveclion Tog

(d) Artesian wells

GEOGRAPHY PAPER-11

Time Allowed; Three Hours_______________Maximum Marks: 100
NOTE: Attempt FIVE questions in ail, including QUESTION No. 8 which is COMPULSORY. All 

questions carry EQUAL marks.
1. Explain urbanization. Give a brief history and present pattern of world urbanization.
2. Differentiate between various types of Economic Activities. Describe the world patterns of any one activity with special reference to Pakistan.

3. Enumerate the Politico-economic relationship between the developed countries and te
less developed countries.
4. Divide the wor,J into Population Resource regions and describe the major characteristics of any one region.

5. Analyse the Power Resource of "SOUTH ASIA".

6. Enumerate the Salient features of the "Indus Water Treaty".

7. Write comprehensive notes on any TWO of the following:-

(i) Wheat in Temperate GrassLnd (ii) Rice in Monsoon Asia (Hi) Iron and Steel Industry of Japan (iv) Environmcntalism

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Geography 2000 CSS past Paper

CSS past Paper

Geography 2000

NOTE: Attempt FIVE questions in all, including question No.8 which is Compulsory. All questions carry equal marks. With the aid of sketch maps and diagrams, illustrate your views as fully as you can. 

1. Distinguish between rock weathering and erosion. Show how processes of weathering in cool humid climate, differ from those in hot arid region. You may take examples from any part of the world. 

2. What do you understand by the plate theory? What has it to do with: 

(a) the formation of mountains

(b) earth quakes

(c) volcanoes. 

3. Summarize with specific examples classification of rocks and show how different mode of origin affect the exploitation of mineral wealth. 

4. Describe and explain the ways in which each of the following desert landforms originate:

(a) Mesa (b) Pedestal rock (c) Barchans
(d) Playa (e) Wadi 

5. Examine the relation between the prevalent wind systems and ocean currents in either North Atlantic or North Pacific Oceans. Also suggest effects of the oceanic circulation described. 

6. Confining your attention to the northern hemisphere contrast the Cool Temperate West Marginal type of climate with the Cool Temperate East Marginal type and try to account for any similarities and differences. 

7. Write short notes on the following:- 

(a) Modern Cartography

(b) Observation of weather phenomenon

(c) Uses and limitations of Mercator’s Projection

(d) Distribution maps and their techniques.

COMPULSORY QUESTION

8. Write only the correct answers in the Answer Book. Don’t reproduce the questions. 

(1) Marble and Hornfelses are produced as result of: 

(a) Contact metamorphism
(b) Regional metamorphism
(c) Dynamic metamorphism
(d) None of these 

(2) The karakatuo volcano is situated in: 

(a) South West Africa (b) Central America
(c) South East Asia (d) None of these 

(3) Atlantic Ocean occupies percent of aquatic surface of the world ocean;. 

(a) 46% (b) 52% (c) 38% (d) None of these 

(4) Notable river with estuary 18: 

(a) Volga (b) Indus (c) Amazon (d) None of these 

(5) Conditions most favorable to solifluction are found in:

(a) Deserts (b) Equational region
(c) Permafrost region (d) None of these. 

(6) Fossils make it possible: 

(a) to subdivide deposits by age’ 

(b) to identify drainage systems 

(c) to locate snowline 

(d) None of these 

(7) Trades are caused by: 

(a) Distribution of land and sea 

(b) Shape of earth 

(c) Pressure differential between equatorial and sub tropic belts 

(d) None of these 

(8) Tombolo Spit connects: 

(a) Reef with Island (b) Island with headland 
(c) Lagoon with Cliff (d) None of these 

(9) Karst region originally a Landscape located in: 

(a) Belgium (b) Greece 
(c) Former Yugoslavia (d) None of these 

(10) At present time volcanoes are chiefly found along: 

(a) Circum Pacific belt (b) Appalachian region 
(c) Karakoram-Kunlun Chain (d) None of these 

(11) It represents a stage in the formation of glacier:

(a) Fjord (b) Graben (C) Firn (d) None of these 

(12) Famous geyser which shows remarkable regularity is

(a) Alexander garden Fiji

(b) Yellow stone Park U.S.A.

(c) Murcia Spain (d) None of these 

(13) Eluvium 15: 

(a) residual product of weathering (b) Precious stone 

(c) jet stream (d) None of these 

(14) Australia drifted eastward from:

(a) Antarctica (b) Asia (c) South America (d) None of these 

(15)Beneath oceans entirely absent is:

(a) Basalt layer (b) Granite layer
(c) Sialic layer (ci) None of these

(16) Earth’s temperature at the depth of 40 Kms is:

(a) 8000C (b) 4000C (c) 2000C (d) None of these 

(17) Pluto was discovered in: 

(a) 1840 (b) 1930 (c) 1970 (d) None of these 

(18) The Oldest known map projection is: 

(a) Gnomonic (b) Bonne’s (c) Simple Cylindrical (d) None of these 

(19) Deepest of all known oozes is: 

(a) Diatomaoeous (b) Globigrina 
(c) Radiolarian (d) None of these 

(20) Wind borne dust deposited on fringes of deserts called: 

(a) Alluvium (b) Regolith (c) Scree (d) None of these

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CSS Geography Past Paper CSS 2015

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR
RECRUITMENT TO POST IN BS-17
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2015

Geography-Paper-II
PART-II

Q.No.2. Explain the philosophies of Environmentalism and possibilism by quoting suitable examples.

Q.No.3. Elaborate the causes and consequences of population redistribution in any ONE mega city of the world.

Q.No.4. Highlight the geographical requirements for the cultivation of cotton. Also identify the major areas of its production and trade in the world.

Q.No.5. Discuss in detail the differentiating characteristics of more developed and less developed countries of the world.

Q.No.6. Describe the major physiographic regions of South Asia and advanced by B.L.C. Johnson and explain any one in detail.

Q.No.7. Critically analyse the geopolitical and economic significance of Pakistan in the global and regional settings.

Q.No.8. Write a concise note on any TWO of the following:
(a) Minerals of South Asia
(b) Demographic Transition Theory
(c) Human Development Index

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