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Multiple Choice Questions

The tone of the passage can be best be described as

  • analytical and scientific

  • factual but descriptive

  • behavourial

  • tentative and inconclusive


LIST I

(Scholars)

LIST II

(Model/Concept)

(a) Christaller (i) Possibilism
(b) Ravenstein (ii) Ecosystem
(c) Tansley (iii) Laws of Migration Place
(d) Lucien Febvre (iv) Central Place Theory
  • a-i , b-ii , c-iii , d-iv

  • a-iv , b-iii , c-ii , d-i

  • a-iii , b-ii , c-i , d-iv

  • a-ii , b-i , c-iv , d-iii


Settlement pattern is a region is affect in India by

  • Social infrastructure

  • Physical Linkages

  • Population growth rate

  • Agricultural Practices


"Urban Involution" in the developing countries is not characterized by

  • rural population level is higher than that in developing countries.

  • a uniform process of rural-urban change

  • over-concentration of economic , political and cultural functions in primate cities.

  • inflow of population beyond a level the city can productively absorb.


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Hoyt propounded

  • Sector model of city structure

  • Rank-size rule

  • Concept of Primate city

  • Multi-nuclei model of city structure


ASSERTION (A) : Social landscape is a region in which one or several groups live and share a common set of ideas about their immediate environment.

REASON (R) : It is a region where human needs , identity , security and stimulation are satisfied.

  • Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

  • Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

  • (a) is correct , but (R) is false.

  • (A) is false , but (R) is correct.


A city region is marked with

  • Under development

  • Backwardness

  • Availability of mineral resources

  • Concentrated development


LIST I LIST II
(i) Walter Isard (i) Social Justice and the City
(ii) David Harvey (ii) Methods of Regional Science
(iii) Richard Hartshorne (iii) Radical geography
(iv) Richard Peet (iv) Perspectives on the Nature of Geography.
  • a-i  b-ii , c-iv , d-iii

  • a-ii , b-i , c-iv , d-iii

  • a-ii , b-iii , c-i , d-iv

  • a-iv , b-ii , c-iii , d-i


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The author is primarily concerned with

  • criticizing the urbanisation process

  • The process of urbanization and over-urbanization in the developing countries.

  • factors of sub-urbanization in the developing countries.

  • urban infrastructural growth in Asia.


City-size distribution is best depicted by

  • Urban hierarchy

  • Central place theory

  • Rank-size rule

  • Losch's Hexagonal Model


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