nature & scope section 1 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Question : 1

Consider the following rivers :

1. Barak
2. Lohit
3. Subansiri

a) 1 and 3 only

b) 1 only

c) 2 and 3 only

d) 1, 2 and 3

Question : 2

Which one of the following scholars was the first to divide the world landmass into three continents : Europe, Asia and Libya (Africa) ? :

a) Herodotus

b) Anaximander

c) Hecataeus

d) Eratosthenes

Question : 3

Who was the first man to discuss about geography?

a) Aristotle

b) Pythagoras

c) Eratosthenes

d) None of these

Question : 4

Assertion (A):
In contemporary geography, there is an increasing awareness of the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the regional problems.
Reason (R):
Groups of scholars with diverse backgrounds and skills focus on specific sets of regional problems more comprehensively and scientifically.

a) A is true but R is false

b) Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A

c) Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A

d) A is false but R is true

Question : 5

General geography was written by

a) Blanche

b) Bernhardus Varenius

c) Ptolemy

d) None of these

Question : 6

Who advocated the opposite theory of determinism?

a) Ptolemy

b) Vidal de la Blache

c) Huntington

d) None of these