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11.

Which one of the following is correct related to a major wave of extinction ?

  • During the Bronze Age

  • When man was still predominantly a hunter and gatherer

  • During the Iron Age

  • During the Post-Industrial Revolution


12.

LIST I

(Books)

LIST II

(Author)

(a) Makers of Modern Geography (i) Friedrich Ratzel
(b) All Possible Worlds (ii) Richard Hartshorne
(c) Anthropogeographie (iii) R.E. Dickinson
(d) Nature of Geography (iv) P.E.James
  • (a)-(iii) , (b)-(iv) , (c)-(i) , (d)-(ii)

  • (a)-(i) , (b)-(iv) , (c)-(iii) , (d)-(ii)

     

  • (a)-(iv) , (b)-(ii) , (c)-(iii) , (d)-(i)

  • (a)-(ii) , (b)-(iii) , (c)-(iv) , (d)-(i)


13.

Who among the following geographers has authored the book " The Geography of State Policies " ?

  • Richard Hartshorne

  • R.L. Morrill

  • J.R.V. Prescott

  • S.B. Cohen


14.

The famous text on classical astronomy entitled "Almagest" was authored by :

  • Ptolemy

  • Strabo

  • Eratosthenes

  • Hipparchus


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15.

 

LIST I

(Contribution)

LIST II

(Author)

(a) Regional Geography (i) O.H.K. Spate
(b) Systematic Geography (ii) Griffith Taylor 
(c) Stop-and-Go determinism (iii) Carl Ritter
(d) Probabilism (iv) Humboldt
  • (a)-(i) , (b)-(ii) , (c)-(iii) , (d)-(iv)

  • (a)-(iv) , (b)-(iii) , (c)-(ii) , (d)-(i)

  • (a)-(ii) , (b)-(i) , (c)-(iv) , (d)-(iii)

  • (a)-(iii) , (b)-(i) , (c)-(ii) , (d)-(iv)


16.

Who among the following geographers correlated the colour of ocean water and its salinity?

  • Ibn Khaldun

  • Ibn-Sina

  • Al-Masudi

  • Al-Maqdisi


17.

Who amongst the following scholars has propounded the concep of Time-Space Geography ?

  • Hagerstrand 

  • Huntington

  • Haggett

  • Harvey


18.

Nomothetic approach in geography emphasizes upon -

  • Empirical study

  • Ideographic study

  • Inductive study

  • Law making study


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19.

 

LIST I 

(Historic Period)

LIST II

(Duration)

(a) Mughal (i) 600BC to AD 500
(b) Prehistoric (ii) AD 1526 to 1800
(c) Early Historical  (iii) 2350 to 1800 BC
(d) Medieval  (iv) AD 600 to 1800
  • (a)-(iv) , (b)-(i) , (c)-(iii) , (d)-(ii)

  • (a)-(iii) , (b)-(ii) , (c)-(iv) , (d)-(i)

  • (a)-(ii) , (b)-(iii) , (c)-(i) , (d)-(iv)

  • (a)-(i) , (b)-(iv) , (c)-(ii) , (d)-(iii)


20.

Who among the following defined Geography as discovery of predictive patterns during Quantitative revolution period ?

  • P.Hagget

  • W.Bunge

  • D.Harvey

  • R.J.Chorley


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