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141.

Richtofen's method may be categorised in modern terminology as

  • Ideographic

  • Chorographic

  • Chorological

  • Nomothetic


142.

Richtofen's aim in redefining geography was to develop geography as

  • Human geography

  • Physical geography

  • Science 

  • Humanities


143.

Who was the first Geographer to ascertain the length of the equator ?

  • Eratosthenes

  • Herodotus

  • Anaximander

  • Thales


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144.

Who was the first person to plot the Bay of Bengal ?

  • Strabo

  • Ptolemy

  • Al-Masudi

  • Humboldt


B.

Ptolemy


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145.

Wh is the author of the book Modern Geographical Thought ?

  • David Harvey

  • R.J. Johnston

  • Brain J.L. Berry

  • Richard Peet


146.

 

LIST I LIST II
(a) Humboldt (i) Anthropogeographie
(b) Oscar Peschell (ii) Erdteile
(c) Richtofen (iii) Kosmos
(d) Ratzel (iv) Das Ausland
  • a-i , b-ii , c-iii , d-iv

  • a-ii , b-iv , c-iii , d-i

  • a-iii , b-ii , c-iv , d-i

  • a-iii , b-iv , c-ii , d-i


147.

"The special purpose of Geography is the comparison of unity in multiplicity" is the statement of

  • Carl Ritter

  • Ratzel

  • Hartshorne

  • Humboldt


148.

Kant viewed Geography as a 

  • Spatial science

  • Chorological science

  • Regional science

  • Systematic science


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149.
LIST I LIST II
(a) Mark Jefferson (i) Urban Geography
(b) Robert Dickinson (ii) Settlement Geography
(c) Arthur Robinson (iii) Physical Geography
(d) Alexander Von Humboldt (iv) Cartography
  • a-ii , b-iv , c-i , d-iii

  • a-iii , b-i , c-iv , d-iii

  • a-i . b-iii , c-iv , d-ii

  •  a-iii , b-i , c-ii , d-iv


150.
LIST I LIST II
(a) Strabo (i) Christian topography
(b) Firamanus (ii) Historical Memoir
(c) Solinus (iii) La Terre
(d) Elisee Reclus (iv) Rerum Memorabilum
  • a-ii  , b-i , c-iv , d-iii

  • a-iv , b-ii , c-iii , d-i

  • a-ii , b-i , c-iii , d-iv


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