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Who among the following developed the concept of mental maps ?

• Down and Stea

• Gould and White

• Saarinen

• Boulding and Hagerstrand

The concept of LEBENSRAUM was propounded by

• Humboldt

• Ritter

• Ratzel

• Semple

With whom is associated the concept of "Pragmatic Possibilism" ?

• Bowman

• Griffith Taylor

• Humboldt

• Ritter

ASSERTION (A) : Environmental Determinism in geography mainly dealt with racial distribution and the climate.

REASON (R) : Environmental determinism was a philosophy of the coloniser.

• 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.

Arrange the following authors in chronological order . Use the codes given below :

I. Strabo

II. Ptolemy

III. Herodotus

IV. Eratosthenes

• (a) Herodotus , Eratosthenes , Strabo , Ptolemy

• (b) Eratosthenes , Strabo , Ptolemy , Herodotus 

• (c) Herodotus , Ptolemy , Strabo , Eratosthenes

• (d) Eratosthenes , Herodotus , Ptolemy , Strabo

• a-i , b-ii , c-v , d-iv

• a-ii , b-i , c-iii , d-iv

• a-i , b-ii , c-iv , d-v

• a-ii , b-i , c-v , d-iii

ASSERTION (A) : The work on Geography of Strabo was largely an encyclopedic description of the world known to the Greeks.

REASON (R) : Strabo's book had laid down a clear foundation for chorological writing in geography .

• 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 but (R) is false.

• (A) is false , but (R) is true.

The correct sequence of the advent of the following geographers :

• Ritter - Humboldt - Richtofen - Ratzel

• Humboldt - Ritter - Ratzel - Richtofen

• Humboldt - Ritter - Richtofen - Ratzel

• Ritter - Humboldt - Ratzel - Richtofen

Richtofen's ultimate goal of geography was to explore

• development of regional geography

• areal differentiation

• man-environment relationship

• development of physical geography

Hartshorne's opinion that Richtofen's views on geography was "thought for the future" was due to

• its scientific content

• Its idea of interrelationship of phenomena 

• its emphasis on method of study

• its emphasis on the purpose of geography