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101.

The concept of Areal differentiation is also termed as :

  • Exceptionalism

  • Chorological study

  • Systematic Geography 

  • Regionalism


102.

Which one of the following is correct sequence of contributors in the development of Greek Geography ?

  • Anaximander , Herodotus , Hipparchus , Eratosthenes

  • Herodotus , Eratosthenes , Hipparchus , Anaximander

  • Anaximander , Eratosthenes , Herdotus , Hipparchus

  • Anaximander , Herodotus , Eratosthenes , Hipparchus


103.

LIST I

(Scholars)

LIST II

(Area of Specialization)

(a) Brian Berry (i) Regional Geography
(b) Carl Sauer (ii) Radical Geography
(c) Dorreen Massey (iii) Social Geography
(d) O.H.K. Spate (iv) Urban Geography
  • a-iv , b-iii , c-ii , d-i

  • a-i, b-ii , c-iv , d-iii

  • a-iii , b-iv , c-i , d-ii

  • a-ii , b-i , c-iii , d-iv


104.

ASSERTION (A) : Behavourial Geography is now becoming much closer to a constructivists or transactionalist epistemology , as propounded by neo-Kantian philosophers and psychologists.

REASON (R) : The geographers like White , Kirk , Gold and Kates have made signal contributions for behavourial movement in Geography.

  • (A) is correct , (R) is wrong.

  • (A) is wrong , but (R) is correct.

  • 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).


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105.

First quater of 20th century was to be considered as the golden age of German geography . Among the following who was the great leaders of this period ?

(i) A. Penck

(ii) H. Lautensach

(iii) C. Ritter

(iv) A. Hettner

  • (i) and (iii) are correct

  • (iii) and (iv) are correct

  • (i) and (iv) are correct

  • (i) , (ii) and (iii) are correct


106.

Who one of the following determined the place of Geography in the classification of sciences ?

  • Berhard Varenius

  • Philip Cluverius

  • Immanuel Kant

  • Sebastian Munster


107.

ASSERTION (A) : Humanistic Geography rejects positivism and quantification in geography.

REASON (R) : Humanistic Geography emphasizes the role of the human agency and its creativity in the construction of place , space and landscape.

  • Both (A) and (R) are correct 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.


108.

Which one of the following is correct chronological sequence of Arab geographers  in the development of geography ?

  • Al-Biruni , Al-Idrisi , Ibn Batuta , Ibn Khaldun

  • Al-Idrisi , Ibn-Khaldun , Al-Masudi , Al-Biruni

  • Ibn-Khaldun , Al-Masudi , Al-Biruni , Al-Idrisi

  • Al-Masudi , Ibn-Batuta , Ibn-Khaldun , Al-Biruni


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109.

"Time-space compression" is a spatial concept given by :

  • Dorreen Massey

  • David Hravey

  • Daniel Bell

  • Edward Soja


110.

In ancient geography , the concept of region was first postulated by whom ?

  • Homer

  • Herodotus

  • Strabo

  • Ptolemy


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