Quiz on Geography as a Discipline I Class 11

CLASS 11 - GEOGRAPHY AS A DISCIPLINE

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Which one of the following is not the main concern of geography?

a) Explanation or the causal relationships between features and the processes and phenomena

b) Identification of the patterns of natural and cultural features

c) Distribution of the natural and human/ cultural features

d) All of the above

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Who coined the term geography?

a) Eratosthenes

b) Alexander von Humboldt

c) Ptolemy

d) Muhammad al-Idrisi

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We should study Geography-

a) To know about surroundings that affects our lives.

b) To understand that earth is a static body.

c) To know about all the phenomena that varies over space.

d) To understand the changes that has taken place over time.

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Which one of the following features can be termed as a ‘physical feature’?

a) Buildings

b) Plateaus

c) Railways

d) Highways

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Which one of the following is considered as the mother branch of geography?

a) History of geographical thought

b) Political science

c) Demography

d) Economics

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The following definition was given by-

Geography studies the differences of phenomena usually related in different parts of the earth’s surface.

a) Ratzel

b) Griffith Taloyr

c) Richard Hartshorne

d) Hettner

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The cartographic and quantitative techniques do not require sufficient proficiency in -

a) Mathematics

b) Econometrics

c) French

d) Statistics

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Which one of the following is not a branch of Physical Geography?

a) Geomorphology

b) Economic Geography

c) Soil Geography

d) Climatology

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Which one of the following approach was introduced by Alexander Von Humboldt, a German geographer (1769-1859)?

a) Synthetic

b) Regional

c) Systematic

d) Religious

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The following definition was given by-

Geography is concerned with the description and explanation of the areal differentiation of the earth’s surface.

a) Richard Hartshorne

b) Hettner

c) Ratzel

d) Griffith Taloyr

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