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81.

The book entitled "Perspective on Nature of Geography(1959)" was authored by

  • Ellen Churchill Semple

  • Rudolf Kjellen

  • Richard Hartshorne

  • Isaih Bowman


82.

Welfare approach in geographic studies emphasises spatial variation in :

  • Socio-economic developement

  • Public-private partnership in development

  • Infrastructural development

  • Quality of life


83.

The statement : "Systematic geography must move into theoritical spheres and Regional Geography into a search for generic and not unique studies" was made by

  • Richard Hartshorne

  • Issiah Bowman

  • Willian Bunge

  • Peter Haggett


84.

In the development of Quantitative Revolution , a new field of study called 'Social Physics' stating thatb "dimensions of society are analogues to the physical dimensions and include numbers by people , distance and time" was introduced by

  • J.Q.Stewart

  • Edward Ullman

  • W.L.Garrison

  • William Warntz


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85.

ASSERTION (A) : The major Thurst of Quantitative Revolution is to bring law making, model building and Theoritization in Geography.


REASON (R) : After the Second World war, young geographers discarded the empirical, descriptive and gazetter type of geography by using the mathematical language rather than the language of literature.

  • Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

  • Both (A) and (R) are wrong.

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

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


86.

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.


87.

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


88.

Who among the following was a strong supporter of Ritter's teleological ideas :

  • Guyot

  • Peschel

  • Gerland

  • Ratzel


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89.

Who among the following defined Geography as dicovery of Predictive patterns during quantitative revolution period ?

  • Haggett

  • Harvey

  • Stewart

  • Bunge


D.

Bunge


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90.

LIST I

(Geographer)

LIST II

(Country)

(a) Alexander Von Humboldt (i) France
(b) Ellen Churchil (ii) U.K.
(c) Peter Haggett (iii) U.S.A
(d) Jeans Brunhes (iv) Germany
  • a-iv , b-ii , c-iii , d-i

  • a-i , b-ii , c-iii , d-iv

  • a-iv , b-iii , c-ii , d-i

  • a-ii , b-iii , c-i , d-iv


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