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Geographical thought - Test Set 1

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  1. Question 1

    Who is known for the work 'Geography and Geographers'?
    1. R.J. Johnston
    2. George Chisholm
    3. Hagerstrand
    4. Brunhes
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  2. Question 2

    Which book was authored by Ellen Churchill Semple in 1911?
    1. Mainsprings of Civilization
    2. Humanistic Geography
    3. Guide to Geography
    4. Influences of Geographical Environment
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  3. Question 3

    Wirth is known for which concept?
    1. Primate City
    2. Central Place
    3. Rural Urban Continuum
    4. Conurbation
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  4. Question 4

    Which of the following scholars argued for humanistic geography?
    1. Yi-Fu-Tuan
    2. Soja
    3. Smith
    4. Schaefer
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  5. Question 5

    Who described State as an organism?
    1. Humboldt
    2. Ratzel
    3. Mackinder
    4. Isaiah Bowman
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  6. Question 6

    The 'Organic Theory of State' was propounded by:
    1. Mackinder
    2. Ratzel
    3. Bowman
    4. Haushoffer
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  7. Question 7

    The concept of Lebensraum became popular in the discipline of political Geography after the publication of -
    1. Making Political Geography
    2. Cosmography
    3. Geographical Pivot of history
    4. Politische Geographic
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  8. Question 8

    Who has authored the famous book, Muqaddimah?
    1. Ibn Batuta
    2. Ibn-Khaldun
    3. Al Biruni
    4. None
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  9. Question 9

    Who described 'quantitative revolution' as a radical transformation of the spirit and purpose of Geography?
    1. O. H. K. Spate
    2. R. Chorley
    3. P. Haggett
    4. I. Burton
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  10. Question 10

    Which one of the following pairs is NOT matched correctly?
    1. Julian Wolpert : Behavioural approach
    2. Aristotle : Inductive approach
    3. David Smith : Marxist perspective
    4. Ratzel : Man-land approach
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  11. Question 11

    For earthquakes the word ‘bhukampa’ has been used in the-
    1. Vedas
    2. Purans
    3. Upanishads
    4. Mahabharats
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  12. Question 12

    Which of the following were pioneers in many branches of knowledge?
    1. Phoenicians
    2. Arabs
    3. Greeks
    4. Romans
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  13. Question 13

    Who among the following compiled the regional and historical geography of the world?
    1. Strabo
    2. Ptolemy
    3. Posidonius
    4. Polybius
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  14. Question 14

    Hecataeus had divided the land mass into which of the following two equal part?
    1. Europa and Asia
    2. Europe and Libya
    3. Libya and Asia
    4. Africa and Asia
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  15. Question 15

    Who among the following is the first geographer who regarded the Caspian as an inland sea?
    1. Posidonius
    2. Strabo
    3. Herodotus
    4. Hecataeus
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  16. Question 16

    According to whom Jaxarte River is the northernmost limit of inhabitable world?
    1. Polibius
    2. Strabo
    3. Ptolemy
    4. Herodotus
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  17. Question 17

    An Academy called ‘Baitul Hikma; was established under the patronage of-
    1. Caliph Harun al Rashid
    2. Al-Mamun
    3. Al-Khvarizimi
    4. Ibn-Sina
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  18. Question 18

    In Erdkunde, Ritter advanced the theory of the North West movement of civilization in-
    1. Asia
    2. Africa
    3. Europe
    4. America
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  19. Question 19

    In which of the following years Ritter met Humboldt for the first time?
    1. 1805
    2. 1807
    3. 1809
    4. 1811
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  20. Question 20

    Ritter’s monumental work is entitled as-
    1. Erdkunde
    2. General Geography
    3. Kosmos
    4. Erdbeschreibung
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