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41.

The statement that "Egypt is the gift of the river Nile" is attributed to

  • Aristotle

  • Strabo

  • Herodotus

  • Seneca


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42.

Who among the following scholars made corrections to Ptolemy's book ?

  • Al-Masudi

  • Al-Idrisi

  • Al-Biruni

  • Ibn-Khaldun


B.

Al-Idrisi


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43.

Who among the following developed the concept of "Mental Map" ?

  • Downs and Sea

  • Saarinen

  • Gould and White

  • Boulding and Haggerstrand


44.

Arrange the following scholars in the correct chronological order . Select the correct answer from the codes given below :

  1. Aristotle     
  2. Eratosthenes
  3. Plato
  4. Strabo 

  • a-2 , b-3 , c-1 , d-4

  • a-1 , b-2 , c-4 , d-3

  • a-4 , b-3 , c-1 , d-2

  • a-3 , b-1 , c-2 , d-4


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45.

Who founded the Humanistic school of Geography ?

  • Wolpert 

  • Tuan

  • Kirk

  • Harvey


46.

Which one of the followimg authors has stated "there are not necessities but everywhere possibilities and man as masteer of these possibilities is the judge of their use" ?

  • Semple

  • Blache

  • Febvre

  • Durkheim


47.

LIST I

(Geographer)

LIST II

(Contributions)

(a) L.D. Stamp (1) Makers of Modern Geography
(b) Alexander Humboldt (2) Nature of Geography
(c) Richard Hartshorne (3) Great Britain : Use & Misuse of Land
(d) R.E. Dickinson (4) Cosmos
  • a-2 , b-4 , c-1 , d-3

  • a-1 , b-3 , c-2 , d-4

  • a-3 , b-2 , c-1 , d-4

  • a-3 , b-4 , c-2 , d-1


48.

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

  • Humanism does not treat human as machines.

  • Humanistic geography gives importance to human awareness , human duality.

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

  • Humanism developed and criticised positivism and quantitative revolution.


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49.

Who among of the following first used the word "Geography" ?

  • Eratosthenes

  • Strabo

  • Hipparchus

  • Posidonius


50.

Who among of the followings is associated with the concept of "Mental Map" ?

  • P. Geddes

  • F. Perroux

  • Lynch

  • Friedmann


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