Multiple Choice Questions

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A process of population deconcentration away from large urbn settlements to non-metropolitan araes is termed as :

  • Urban dispersal

  • Urban sprawl

  • Counter-urbanization

  • Sub-urbanization


C.

Counter-urbanization


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In the acceleration stage of urbanisation the urban population constitutes :

  • More than 70% of the total population of the state

  • 25% to 70%

  • 10% to 25%

  • Less than 10%


ASSERTION (A) : Losch's model is less restrictive than Christaller's.

REASON (R) : Losch trated each function as having a separate range , threshold and hexagonal hinterland.

  • 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 true , (R) is false.

  • (A) is false , but (R) is true.


LIST I

LIST II
(a) T. Haggerstrand (i) Theoritical Geography
(b) William Bunge (ii) Geographic Dissemination of Innovations
(c) Gilbert White (iii) Methods of Regional Analysis
(d) Walter Isard (iv) Human Responses to Floods
  • a-ii , b-i , c-iv , d-iii

  • a-ii , b-iii , c-iv , d-i

  • a-iv , b-ii , c-iii , d-i

  • a-iii , b-iv , c-i , d-ii


LIST I LIST II
(a) Otto Schluter (i) Political Geography
(b) Von Richtofen (ii) Das Ausland
(c) Oscar Peschel (iii) Major work on China
(d) Friedrich Ratzel (iv) Visible content of the landscape
  • a-iv , b-i , c-ii , d-iii

  • a-iv , b-iii , c-ii , d-i

  • a-iii , b-iv , c-i , d-ii

  • a-ii , b-i , c-iv , d-iii


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Who among the following was a strong supporter of Ritter's teleological ideas :

  • Guyot

  • Peschel

  • Gerland

  • Ratzel


LIST I

(Philosophical approaches)

LIST II

(Advocates)

(a) Idealistic (i) Relph
(b) Phenomenological (ii) Harris and Guelke
(c) Radical (iii) Smith
(d) Welfare (iv) Bunge
  • a-iv , b-ii , c-i , d-iii

  • a-ii , b-i , c-iv , d-iii

  • a-iii , b-iv , c-ii , d-i

  • a-ii , b-iii , c-i , d-iv


Which one of the following statements is not true about Humanism in Geography ?

  • Humanism does not treat humans as machines.

  • Humanistic geography gives importance to human awareness , human consciousness and humn creativity.

  • Humanists accept the reduction of space and place to geometrical concepts of surface.

  • Humanism developed as criticism against postivism and quantitative revolution.


Which of the following conditions is characterised by the second stage of Demographic Transition ?

  • Low birth rate , High death rate

  • High birth rate , High death rate

  • High birth rate , Declining death rate

  • Low birth rate , Low death rate


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The concept of primate city was advanced by :

  • Jefferson

  • Zift

  • Mumford

  • Sjoberg