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111.

Who among the following explained the concept that 'the present is the key to the past' ?

  • Buffon

  • Lyell

  • Hutton

  • Playfair


112.

The approach that some of the geographical facts according to Ritter , cannot be explained scientifically is termed as 

  • Ecological

  • Regional

  • Teleological

  • Locational


113.

Whose pioneer statement on the scope and method of modern geography , according to Hartshorne , set the directions of geographic thought for the future ?

  • Blache

  • Schluter

  • Ratzel

  • Richthofen


114.

Who among the following geographers emphasized the predominant role of climate in human life ?

  • Geddes

  • Jefferson

  • Huntington

  • Brunhes


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115.

Which one of the schools of thought first developed possibilism ?

  • German school of Geography

  • Russian school of Geography

  • French school of Geography

  • British school of Geography


116.

Which one of the following is not a supporter of the theory of determinism ?

  • Wolfgang Hartake

  • R.Hartshorne

  • O.H.K. Spate

  • All of the above


117.

The statement that "a method by which one can rethink the thought of those whose actions one seeks to explain" refers in human geography to the philosophy of

  • Phenomenology

  • Idealism

  • Existentialism

  • Positivism


118.

Which among the following was responsible for the radical transformation of spirit and purpose of geography ?

  • Post mordernism

  • Humanism

  • Structuralism

  • Quantification


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119.

Which one of the following was not mentioned by Brunhes as essential fact of human geography ?

  • Facts of unproductive occupation of soil

  • Facts of plants and animals conquest

  • Facts of destructive exploitation

  • Facts of manufacturing


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120.

'The same environment carries different meanings to people with different ways of living and culture.' This statement is related with the concept of

  • Determinism

  • Stop and go determinism

  • Probabilism

  • Possibilism


D.

Possibilism


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