MOCK TEST ON GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT PYQS JUNE & DEC 2015 NTA UGC NET

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Q.12. Who wrote the book Meteorologica? (UGC NET DEC 2015)

(1) Aristotle

(2) Posidonius

(3) Plato

(4) Thales

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

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)

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

Q.16. Who among of the following first used the word ‘Geography’? (UGC NET DEC 2015)

(1) Eratosthenes

(2) Strabo

(3) Hipparchus

(4) Poisonous

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

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

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)

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

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