IGNOU BGGCT-131 QUESTION PAPER WITH SOLUTION FOR EXAM PREPARATION

Mercury, Venus, Earth along with Mars and Asteroids

a) Hawaian; b) Strombolian; c) Vulcanian; d) Vesuvian; and e) Pelean

Ring of Fire or Circum-Pacific Belt

Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic rocks.

a) simple; b) asymmetrical; c) overturned; d) isoclinals; and e) recumbent.

1. Lithosphere – Solid land mass
2. Atmosphere – Envelope of air
3. Hydrosphere – Body of water
4. Biosphere – All life on Earth

valley glaciers (mountain or Alpine glaciers) and continental glaciers

1. Mountain Building Theory based on Continental Drift Theory of Wegener;
2. Geosynclinal Orogen Theory of Kober;
3. Convection Current Theory of Holmes;
4. Mountain Building according to Plate Tectonics Theory.

i) Convection Current
ii) Slab Pull
iii) Ridge Push

(a) epeirogenic movements and (b) orogenic movements.

(i) secondary formation and they have layers of beds separated by bedding plane;

(ii) pore space and is lighter than the igneous rocks;

(iii) source of fossil fuel; and

(iv) do not have any crystallise structure.

Types                                    Description
1 Tropical Rainforest    –  Characterised by dense forest and heavy rainfall
2 Savanna                          – Widespread grasslands in the tropics
3 Desert Biome                – Plants, animals and soil of very dry regions
4 Temperate grassland  – Mid-latitudinal grasslands
5 Temperate forest           – Mid-latitudinal woodlands
6 Tundra                                – Cold, treeless regions in the arctic circle
7 Polar                                   – Perpetually ice covered regions
8 Wetlands                           – Fresh or salt water logged area
9 Mountains                          – Elevated area

Spiral, Barred Spiral, Elliptical and Irregular galaxies

100 kilometres.

coal, oil and natural gas

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto

1. central or explosive eruption
2. fissure or quite eruption

a) P Waves (b) S Waves (c) Love Waves (d) Rayleigh Waves.

i) Lithosphere

ii) Pyrosphere

iii) Barysphere

crust

1) Convergence of two oceanic plates,
2) Convergence of oceanic and continental plates,
3) Convergence of two continental plates and
4) Continent- Arc collision