Chapter-1[Geography as a Discipline [ Unit-I: GEOGRAPHY AS A DISCIPLINE]]
1. The term geography was first coined by -----------.
a) Ellen Churchill
b) Richard Hartshorne
c) Eratosthenes
d) Immanuel Kant
Answer. c) Eratosthenes was a Greek scholar( 276 BC to 194 BC), he is considered as the father of geography.
2. Which of the following is not part of Physical Geography?
a) Population Geography
b) Bio-geography
c) Soil geography
d) Oceanography
Answer. a) Population Geography
3. Which of the following geography approach was introduced by Alexander Von Humboldt?
a) Regional Geography
b) Systematic Geography
c) Physical Geography
d) Human Geography
Answer. b) Systematic Geography; Humboldt, a German geographer (1769-1859)
4. Which of the following geography approach was introduced by Karl Ritter?
a) Regional Geography
b) Systematic Geography
c) Physical Geography
d) Human Geography
Answer. a) Regional Geography; Karl Ritter (1779-1859)
5. ---------------- is devoted to the study of landforms, their evolution, and related processes.
a) Geomorphology
b) Climatology
c) Hydrology
d) Soil Geography
Answer. a) Geomorphology
6. ---------------- is devoted to the study of the structure of the atmosphere and elements of weather and climates.
a) Geomorphology
b) Climatology
c) Hydrology
d) Soil Geography
Answer. b) Climatology
7. --------------- is devoted to studying the processes of soil formation, soil types, fertility status, distribution, and use.
a) Human geography
b) Social and cultural geography
c) Hydrology
d) Soil Geography
Answer. d) Soil Geography
8. Which of the following is not a branch of Human geography?
a) Settlement Geography
b) Economic Geography
c) Historical geography
d) Bio-geography
Answer. d) Bio-geography
9. Which of the following geography provides the interface between physical geography and human geography?
a) Settlement Geography
b) Economic Geography
c) Historical geography
d) Bio-geography
Answer. d) Bio-geography
10. ------------ deals with the scientific study of the habitats characteristic of species.
a) Zoology
b) Ecosystem
c) Environmental Geography
d) Bio-geography
Answer. b) Ecosystem
11. ---------------concerns the world over leading to the realization of environmental problems such as land gradation, pollution, etc.
a) Zoo Geography
b) Ecosystem
c) Environmental Geography
d) Bio-geography
Answer. c) Environmental Geography
12. "Geography is the study of earth's surface", it is the statement of ------------.
a) Ellen Churchill
b) Richard Hartshorne
c) Eratosthenes
d) Hetter
Answer. c) Eratosthenes;
13. Geography is concerned with describing and explaining the areal differentiation of the earth’s surface. It is the statement of --------
a) Ellen Churchill
b) Richard Hartshorne
c) Eratosthenes
d) Hetter
Answer. b) Richard Hartshorne
14. Geography studies the differences of phenomena usually related to different parts of the earth’s surface. It is the statement of -------------.
a) Ellen Churchill
b) Richard Hartshorne
c) Eratosthenes
d) Hetter
Answer. d) Hetter
15. Which one of the following scholars coined the term ‘Geography’?
a) Herodotus
b) Erathosthenese
c) Galileo
d) Aristotle
Answer. b) Erathosthenese
16. Which one of the following features can be termed a ‘physical feature’?
a) Port
b) Road
c) Plain
d) Water park
Answer. c) Plain
17. Meteorology is part of ---------
a) Population Geography
b) Soil Geography
c) Climatology
d) Social Geography
Answer. c) Climatology
18. Demography is part of ---------
a) Population Geography
b) Soil Geography
c) Climatology
d) Social Geography
Answer. a) Population Geography
19. Sociology is part of -------------.
a) Population Geography
b) Soil Geography
c) Climatology
d) Social Geography
Answer. d) Social Geography
20. Pedology is part of -------------.
a) Population Geography
b) Soil Geography
c) Climatology
d) Social Geography
Answer. b) Soil Geography
21. Which one of the following questions is related to the cause-effect relationship?
a) Why
b) Where
c) What
d) When
Answer. a) Why
22. Which one of the following disciplines attempts temporal synthesis?
a) Sociology
b) Geography
c) Anthropology
d) History
Answer. d) History
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