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UNIT TEST: GEOGRAPHIC THOUGHT

Subject: GEOGRAPHY

1. Early geographers believed in the philosophy of:

A. Determinism
B. Possibilism
C. Probabilism
D. Voluntarism

2. Who is the Author of the Book entitled ‘India: A Regional Geography’ ?

(A) R.L.Singh
(B) Majid Hussain
(C) Gopal Krishan
(D) K.R.Dikshit

3. The author of the book entitled ‘Principles of Human Geography’ is :

(A) Ellen Churchill Sample

(B) Walter Christaller
(C) Alexander Keith Johnston
(D) Vidal de La Blache

4. Who among the following is said to have forwarded the idea of Regional
geography?

(A) Pliny
(B) Hecateus of Miletus
(C) Eratosthenes
(D) Polybius

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5. Match List-I with List-II

Book Author

A. Ellen Churchill Semple i. The Face of the Earth

B. Edward Suess ii. The Morphology of Landscape

C. Ellsworth Huntington iii. Influence of geographic Environment

D. Carl Sauer iv. Pulse of Asia

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-I

(B) A- Ill, B-.I, C – IV, D - II
(C) A- III, B- IV, C – II, D - I
(D) A- I, B - Ill, C – IV, D – II

6. Who among the following advanced idea of scientific determinism?

A. Huntington
B. Brunhes
C. Blache
D. Taylor

7. Match List-I with List-Il and select correct answer using code given below
the list:

List-I (Concepts) List-II (Scholars)

(A) Humanism 1. Wright
(B) Post modernism 2. Cook Wilson
(C) Realism 3. Soja
(D) Behavioralism 4. Yi-Fu-Tuan

Code A B C D
a. 4 2 3 1
b. 4 3 2 1
c. 1 2 3 4
d. 2 3 4 1

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8. The Term 'Areal Differentiation' was coined by:

(a) Ratzel
(b) Peter Hagget
(c) Humboldt
(d) Richard Hartshorne

9. The Arab Scholar who made corrections to Ptolemy's book was :

(a) Ibn-Khaldun
(b) Al-Idrisi
(c) Ibn-Battuta
(d) Al-Masudi

10. Who propounded word "Armchair" Geography :

(a) (a)Friedtz Ratzel

(b) Humboldt
(c) Carl Retter
(d) Charles Darwin

11. Who amongst the following scholars wrote the book, "The Geography of
Peace?

(a) Helford Mackinder

(b) Richard Hartshorne
(c) Nicholas J. Spykman
(d) Darulent Whittelesey

12. Who is the founder of Possibilism

(a) G. Carter
(b) L. Febvre
(c) E.C. Semple
(d) Vidal de la Blache

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13. Who was considered as the founder of modern Human Geography

(a) Carl Ritter

(b) A.V. Humboldt
(c) F. Ratzel
(d) E.C. Semple

14. The philosophies states that people are not just pawns of the natural
environment is

(a) Environmentalism
(b) Possibilism
(c) Neo-determinism
(d) None of the above

15. Neo-determinism was put forward by

A. Carl Ritter
B. Ratzel
C. Griffith Taylor
D. A.V. Humboldt

16. ‘Nature is never more than an adviser’ is the essence of

(a) Environmentalism
(b) Possibilism
(c) Neo-determinism
(d) None of the above

17. Who quoted ‘ all the inhabitants of hot lands are lazy and timid’

(a) Immanuel Kant

(b) Ratzel
(c) E.C. Semple
(d) Vidal de la Blache

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18. Who define human geography as the ‘study of changing relationship

between the unresting man and the unstable earth’

(a) Ratzel
(b) E.C.Semple
(c) E. Huntington
(d) Vidal de la Blache

19. ‘Principles de Geographie Humanie’ was written by

A. Ratzel
B. E.C.Semple
C. Huntington
D. Vidal de la Blache

20. Who among the following did not support the concept of environmental
determinism

A. Ratzel
B. Davis
C. Huntington
D. None of these

21. Which one of the following is not a supporter of the theory of determinism

(a) Wolfgang Hartake

(b) R. Hartshorne
(c) O.H.K Spate
(d) All of the above

22. Who define Geography as human ecology

(A) Schaefer
(B) R. Hartshorne
(C) Richthofen
(D) Barrows

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23. ‘Environmental Determinism’ maintains

(A) The physical environment determines man’s activities

(B) The economic resources determines man’s cultural activities
(C) The physical environment partially determines man’s social and
cultural activities
(D) None of the above

24. Who is considered as the earliest follower of determinism

A. Ritter
B. Ratzel
C. Hippocrates
D. Febvre

25. Pragmatic possibilism is propounded by

(a) Tatham
(b) Ritter
(c) Ratzel
(d) Hippocrates

26.

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Answer key:

1. A 11. C 21.D

2. A 12.C 22. D

3. D 13. C 23. A

4. B 14. B 24. C

5. B 15. C 25. A

6. A 16. B

7. C 17. A

8. D 18. B

9. D 19. D

10. C 20.C

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