Nature & Scope Section 1 Practice Questions Answers Test With Solutions & More Shortcuts

Question : 6

Consider the following statements:

1. Human Geography covers all those aspects of Geography which are not directly concerned with Physical Geography.
2. Human Geography is the study of interrelationship between human beings and their environment.
3. Human Geography deals with the description and explanation of human phenomena around the variable earth surface.
4. Human Geography does not cover technical matters of Cartography.

Which of the above statements are correct?

a) Only 3

b) 1 and 2

c) Only 2

d) 1, 2, 3 & 4

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Question : 7

Who advocated the opposite theory of determinism?

a) Ptolemy

b) Vidal de la Blache

c) Huntington

d) None of these

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Question : 8

General geography was written by

a) Blanche

b) Bernhardus Varenius

c) Ptolemy

d) None of these

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Question : 9

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

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Question : 10

The study of soil science is called

a) Pedology

b) Climatology

c) Geology

d) Biogeography

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