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

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131.

Who among the following developed the concept of mental maps ?

  • Down and Stea

  • Gould and White

  • Saarinen

  • Boulding and Hagerstrand


132.

The concept of LEBENSRAUM was propounded by

  • Humboldt

  • Ritter

  • Ratzel

  • Semple


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133.

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

  • Bowman

  • Griffith Taylor

  • Humboldt

  • Ritter


B.

Griffith Taylor


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134.

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.


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135.

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


136.

LIST I

(Concept)

LIST II

(Propounder/Author)

(a) Erdkunde (i) Humboldt
(b) Kosmos (ii) Ritter
(c) Chorology (iii) Hettner
(d) Areal differentiation (iv) Richtofen
  • 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


137.

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.


138.

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


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139.

Richtofen's ultimate goal of geography was to explore

  • development of regional geography

  • areal differentiation

  • man-environment relationship

  • development of physical geography


140.

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


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