Q1. Who is called the father of geography?,
- AHerodotus
- BAnaximander
- CEratosthenes
- DHicataeus
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Answer: D) Hicataeus
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Q2. Which of the following scholars is credited with establishing geography as a separate discipline?
- AEratosthenes
- BHipparks
- CHicataeus
- DHerodotus
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Answer: A) Eratosthenes
Q3. Who first used the word 'Geographica' for geography?
- AHicataeus
- BHerodotus
- CEratosthenes
- DAnaximander
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Answer: C) Eratosthenes
Q4. Geography has been defined on the basis of the literal meaning of geography -
- AGeography is the science that studies the Earth's surface.
- BGeography is the science that studies the relationship between the Earth and humans.
- CGeography is the science that studies human and natural differences.
- Dnone of these
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Answer: A) Geography is the science that studies the Earth's surface.
Q5. Who said, 'Geography is the science that studies the Earth as its centre'?
- APtolemy
- BKant
- CVarenium
- DTailor
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Answer: C) Varenium
Q6. 'Geography is the study of the earth's surface' - who said this?
- APtolemy
- BKant
- CVarenium
- DHumboldt
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Answer: B) Kant
Q7. Who is the originator of the ideology of 'Neodeterminism' in geographical ideologies?
- AFriedrich Ratzel
- BGriffith Taylor
- CFabre
- DVidal-de-la-Bloche
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Answer: B) Griffith Taylor
Q8. Which scholar said, 'The present is the key to the past'?
- ADutton
- BJames Hutton
- CDavis
- DWalter Penck
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Answer: B) James Hutton
Q9. Whose statement is this, 'Spatial form is the result of structure, process and condition'?
- AWalter Penck
- BW.M. Davis
- CL.C. King
- DPeltier
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Answer: B) W.M. Davis
Q10. If history presents the scientific study of 'when', then geography is the scientific and logical study of 'where' - this statement is of which of the following scholars?
- ACarl Sawer
- BNJ spyman
- CH.J. Mackinder
- DD.H. Whittlesey
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Answer: A) Carl Sawer
Q11. Who is considered the 'father of geomorphology'?
- ADavis
- BPatchel
- CPank
- DHutton
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Answer: B) Patchel
Q12. Who is the proponent of the ideology of 'Stop and Go Determinism'?
- AA. J. Herbertson
- BGeorge Tatham
- CHartshorne
- DGriffith Taylor
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Answer: D) Griffith Taylor
Q13. Who is the scholar who defined geography as 'human ecology'?
- AVidal-de-la-Bloche
- BJean Brunhes
- CHeitner
- DH.H. Barrows
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Answer: D) H.H. Barrows
Q14. Who among the following is the founder of mathematical geography?
- AThales
- BPtolemy
- CStrabo
- DTheophrastus
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Answer: A) Thales
Q15. Whose statement is this, 'Since man lives on the earth, he is dependent on the earth'?
- AFabre
- Bblush
- Csample
- DJean Brunhes
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Answer: D) Jean Brunhes
Q16. Which of the following geographers is called the father of regional geography?
- AKarl Ritter
- BH.J. Herbertson
- CFriedrich Ratzel
- DHumboldt
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Answer: A) Karl Ritter
Q17. Who among the following is called the 'founder of human geography'?
- Ablush
- BHumboldt
- CKarl Ritter
- DJean Brunhes
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Answer: C) Karl Ritter
Q18. Human geography is the study of the changing relationships between the unstable earth and the fickle human being.' Whose statement is this?
- Ablush
- BHuntington
- CMiss Sempull
- DHumboldt
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Answer: C) Miss Sempull