The concept of primate city was advanced by :
Jefferson
Zift
Mumford
Sjoberg
A.
Jefferson
Which one of the following statements is not true about Humanism in Geography ?
Humanism does not treat humans as machines.
Humanistic geography gives importance to human awareness , human consciousness and humn creativity.
Humanists accept the reduction of space and place to geometrical concepts of surface.
Humanism developed as criticism against postivism and quantitative revolution.
In the acceleration stage of urbanisation the urban population constitutes :
More than 70% of the total population of the state
25% to 70%
10% to 25%
Less than 10%
LIST I | LIST II |
(a) Otto Schluter | (i) Political Geography |
(b) Von Richtofen | (ii) Das Ausland |
(c) Oscar Peschel | (iii) Major work on China |
(d) Friedrich Ratzel | (iv) Visible content of the landscape |
a-iv , b-i , c-ii , d-iii
a-iv , b-iii , c-ii , d-i
a-iii , b-iv , c-i , d-ii
a-ii , b-i , c-iv , d-iii
A process of population deconcentration away from large urbn settlements to non-metropolitan araes is termed as :
Urban dispersal
Urban sprawl
Counter-urbanization
Sub-urbanization
Which of the following conditions is characterised by the second stage of Demographic Transition ?
Low birth rate , High death rate
High birth rate , High death rate
High birth rate , Declining death rate
Low birth rate , Low death rate
LIST I |
LIST II |
(a) T. Haggerstrand | (i) Theoritical Geography |
(b) William Bunge | (ii) Geographic Dissemination of Innovations |
(c) Gilbert White | (iii) Methods of Regional Analysis |
(d) Walter Isard | (iv) Human Responses to Floods |
a-ii , b-i , c-iv , d-iii
a-ii , b-iii , c-iv , d-i
a-iv , b-ii , c-iii , d-i
a-iii , b-iv , c-i , d-ii
Who among the following was a strong supporter of Ritter's teleological ideas :
Guyot
Peschel
Gerland
Ratzel
ASSERTION (A) : Losch's model is less restrictive than Christaller's.
REASON (R) : Losch trated each function as having a separate range , threshold and hexagonal hinterland.
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 , (R) is false.
(A) is false , but (R) is true.
LIST I (Philosophical approaches) |
LIST II (Advocates) |
(a) Idealistic | (i) Relph |
(b) Phenomenological | (ii) Harris and Guelke |
(c) Radical | (iii) Smith |
(d) Welfare | (iv) Bunge |
a-iv , b-ii , c-i , d-iii
a-ii , b-i , c-iv , d-iii
a-iii , b-iv , c-ii , d-i
a-ii , b-iii , c-i , d-iv