GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT PYQS JUNE & DEC 2015 NTA UGC NET
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Q.1. To Which school does Eratosthenes, the father of geography belongs to: (UGC NET JUNE 2015)
(1) Roman
(2) Arab
(3) German
(4) Greek
Answer: 4
Q.2. Who was greatly influenced by Le Play’s triology of Place – Work – Folk and adopted an alternate triology of Environment – Function – Organism? (UGC NET JUNE 2015)
(1) Roxby
(2) Geddes
(3) Herbertsen
(4) Chisholm
Answer: 2
Q.3. Which Indian geographer has written the book ‘Geography of Purans’? (UGC NET JUNE 2015)
(1) S. M. Ali
(2) P. P. Karan
(3) M. Shafi
(4) B. Dubey
Answer: 1
Q.4. Who among the following scholars is not related with behavioural geography? (UGC NET JUNE 2015)
(1) W.K. Kink
(2) Peter Gould
(3) Yi Fu Twan
(4) Gilbert White
Answer: 3
Q.5. Match List-I wiith List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (UGC NET JUNE 2015)
List-I (Approaches
(a) Neo-Determinism
(b) Welfare
(c) Behavioral
(d) Modern Humanist
List-II (Contributors)
(i) D.M. Smith
(ii) Guman Olsson
(iii) Griffith Taylor
(iv) William Kirk
Codes:
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | |
| (1) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) |
| (2) | (iii) | (i) | (iv) | (ii) |
| (3) | (iv) | (iii) | (ii) | (i) |
| (4) | (ii) | (iv) | (i) | (iii) |
Answer: 2
Q.6. Who is the pioneer in commercial Geography? (UGC NET JUNE 2015)
(1) H.J. Mackinder
(2) G.G Chisholm
(3) Patrick Geddes
(4) O.H.K. Spate
Answer: 2
Q.7. Which one of the following philosophers did propagate the principle of Unity in Diversity? (UGC NET JUNE 2015)
(1) Carl Ritter
(2) Immanuel Kant
(3) Alexander Von Humboldt
(4) O.H.K. Spate
Answer: 1
Q.8. To which school of Geography does E.C Semple belong? (UGC NET JUNE 2015)
(1) American School of Geography
(2) Russuan School of Geography
(3) British School of Geography
(4) French school of Geography
Answer: 1
Q.9. Who was the first person to divide the circle into 360 degree? (UGC NET DEC 2015)
(1) Ptolemy
(2) Herodotus
(3) Eratoshenes
(4) Hipparchus
Answer: 4
Q.10. ‘There is a strong relationship between environment, image and decision making.’ This statement pertains to: (UGC NET DEC 2015)
(1) Humanism
(2) Behaviouralism
(3) Radicalism
(4) Welfare Approach
Answer: 2
Q.11. Who are considered as the founders of Mathematical Geography? (UGC NET DEC 2015)
(1) Plato and Aristotle
(2) Thales and Anaximeneder
(3) Hecataeus and Herodotus
(4) Ptolemy
Answer: 2
Q.12. Who wrote the book Meteorologica? (UGC NET DEC 2015)
(1) Aristotle
(2) Posidonius
(3) Plato
(4) Thales
Answer: 1
Q.13. Who laid the foundation of modern geographical thought? (UGC NET DEC 2015)
(1) Humboldt and Ritter
(2) Kant and Varenius
(3) Hettner and Richthopen
(4) Humboldt and Davis
Answer: 1
Q.14. Read the following statements: (UGC NET DEC 2015)
(a) Ratzel dominated German Geography in the second half of the 19th century.
(b) Ratzel coined the term Anthropogeographic.
(c) Ratzel was highly influenced by Darwin’s theory of evolution of species.
Which of the above statements are correctly associated with Ratzel?
(1) (a), (b) and (c)
(2) (a) and (b)
(3) (b) and (c)
(4) Only (c)
Answer: 1
Q.15. Which is the correct sequence in chronological order of the following Greeks who contributed vastly to the evolution of geographical thought during the ancient period? (UGC NET DEC 2015)
(1) Aristotle, Eratosthenes, Anaximander, Ptolemy
(2) Eratosthenes, Anaximander, Ptolemy, Aristotle
(3) Anaximander, Aristotle, Eratosthenes, Ptolemy
(4) Ptolemy, Anaximander, Aristorle, Eratosthenes
Answer: 3
Q.16. Who among of the following first used the word ‘Geography’? (UGC NET DEC 2015)
(1) Eratosthenes
(2) Strabo
(3) Hipparchus
(4) Poisonous
Answer: 1
Q.17. The concept of stages of Growth was given by: (UGC NET DEC 2015)
(1) A. Hannes
(2) J.H. Pratt
(3) L. Febure
(4) W.W. Rostow
Answer: 4
Q.18. Who among of the following is associated with the concept of ‘Mental Map’? (UGC NET DEC 2015)
(1) P. Geddes
(2) F. Perroux
(3) Lynch
(4) Friedmann
Answer: 3
Q.19 Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (UGC NET DEC 2015)
List-I
(Geographers)
(a) Semple
(b) Brunches
(c) Davis
(d) Burges
List – II
(Concepts)
(i) Systematic Geography
(ii) Concentric Zone Theory
(iii) (Old) Determinism
(iv) Possibilism
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(2) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
Answer: 2
Q.20. Vidal de la Blache was associated with which of the following schools of thought? (UGC NET DEC 2015)
(1) Possibilism
(2) Determinism
(3) Modern Determinism
(4) Stop and Go Determinism
Answer: 2
Q.21. Who proposed the ‘Theory of Intervening Opportunities’? (UGC NET DEC 2015)
(1) B. Thomas
(2) B. Benjamin
(3) S.Stouffer
(4) R. Tomlinson
Answer: 1