Previous Year Question Paper (2025)
2025
GEOGRAPHY — HONOURS
Paper : DSCC-5
(Geomorphology)
Full Marks : 75
Category - A
Answer any ten questions (each within 50 words).
2 × 10
1. What is landform ordering?
2. What is mudflow?
3. Define 'solifluction'.
4. Name the processes of bedload transportation.
5. What is pyramidal peak?
6. What are moraines?
7. What is a tombolo?
8. How does a spit form?
9. What is a gloup?
10. Define bajada.
11. What is cyclic time?
12. What is dynamic equilibrium?
13. Distinguish between open system and closed system.
14. What is endrumpf?
Category - B
Answer any five questions (each within 125 words).
5 × 5
15. Explain Schumm and Lichty's model on role of time in Geomorphology.
16. Discuss the processes of sediment entrainment by rivers.
17. Differentiate between fault scarp and fault line scarp.
18. Explain the formation of granitic tors.
19. Explain the formation of cliffs and wavecut platforms.
20. Describe the formation of barchans and star dunes.
21. Briefly discuss the role of humans in landform development.
Category - C
Answer any two questions (each within 500 words).
15 × 2
22. Give an account of the landforms produced by erosional features of glaciers with suitable sketches.
23. Describe the development of drainage network on uniclinal structure.
24. Classify the rapid processes of mass wasting and their resultant landforms.
25. Explain the evolution of landform as put forward by Penck.