MOCK TEST ON GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT PYQS JULY 2016 NTA UGC NET

Q.1. Match the List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (UGC NET JULY 2016)

List – I                     

(Author)                  

(I) C.A.M. King

(II) D.F. Ritter

(III) R.A. Bagnold

(IV) S.A. Schumm

List – II

(Book)

(A) The Physics of the Blown Sand and Desert Dunes

(B) To Interpret the Earth

(C) Process Geomorphology

(D) Beaches and

Codes:

      I II III IV

(1) A B C D

(2) D C B A

(3) B D C A

(4) D B A C

Q.2. Who was the author of the book “Nature of Geography”? (UGC NET JULY 2016)

(1) Isaih Bowman

(2) Rudolf Kjellen

(3) Fredrich Ratzel

(4) Richard Hartshorne

Q.3. Arrange the following scholars in the correct chronological order. Select the correct answer from the codes given below: (UGC NET JULY 2016)

(I) Aristotle

(II) Eratosthenes

(III) Plato

(IV) Strabo

Codes:

     I II III IV

(1) II III I IV

(2) I II IV III

(3) IV III I II

(4) III I II IV

Q.4. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (UGC NET JULY 2016)

List – I (Author)       

(I) Olto Schluter

(II) Von Richtofen

(III) Oscar Paschel

(IV) Friedrich Ratzel

List – II (Book)

(A) Political Geography

(B) Das Ausland

(C) Major Works on China

(D) Visible Contents of Landscape

Codes:

     I II III IV

(1) D C B A

(2) A B D C

(3) B D C A

(4) C B A D

Q.5. Which one of the following pairs does not matched correctly? (UGC NET JULY 2016)

(Author)                 (Book)

(1) Ibn Khaldun – Muqaddimah

(2) Al-Balakhi – Kitabul Ashkal

(3) Al-Masudi – Routes and Realms

(4) Al-Baruni – Kitab-al-Hind

Q.6. Who founded the Humanistic school of geography? (UGC NET JULY 2016)

(1) Wolpert

(2) Tuan

(3) Kirk

(4) Harvey

Q.7. Which one of the following authors has stated “there are not necessities but everywhere possibilities and man as master of these possibilities is the judge of their use”? (UGC NET JULY 2016)

(1) Semple

(2) Blashe

(3) Febvre

(4) Durkheim

Q.8. Who defined geography as human ecology? (UGC NET JULY 2016)

(1) Hartshorne

(2) Schaefer

(3) Semple

(4) Barrows

Q.9. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer using the codes given below: (UGC NET JULY 2016)

List – I (Geographer)             

(I) L.D. Stamp

(II) Alexander Von Humboldt

(III) Richard Hartshorne

(IV) R.E. Dickinson

List – II (Contribution)

(A) Makers of Modern Geography

(B) Nature of Geography

(C) Great Britain: Use and Misuse of Land

(D) Cosmos

Codes:

      I II III IV

(1) B D A C

(2) A C B D

(3) C B A D

(4) C D B A

Q.10. Carta-Marina is (UGC NET JULY 2016)

(1) A cartographic instrument used by Arab geographers

(2) A book authored by Al-Masudi.

(3) A map of America prepared by Wald Simular.

(4) An age succeeding to “Age of Discovery”.

Q.11. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer using the codes given below: (UGC NET JULY 2016)

List – I                              

(I) Haggerstrand

(II) William Bunge

(III) Gilbert White

(IV) Walter Isard

List – II

(A) Theoretical geography

1. B) Geographical dissemination of Innovation

(C) Methods of regional analysis

(D) Human responses to floods

Codes:

      I II III IV

(1) D B A C

(2) C A B D

(3) A C B D

(4) B A D C

Q.12. Who among the following pleaded that “history be treated geographically and geography be treated historically”? (UGC NET JULY 2016)

(1) Holmes

(2) Herodotus

(3) Hecate us

(4) Thales of Militus

Q.13. Which one of the following is the philosophical basis of Quantitative revolution? (UGC NET JULY 2016)

(1) Positivism

(2) Existentialism

(3) Idealism

(4) Probabalism

Q.14. The statement that “Egypt is the gift of the river Nile” is attributed to (UGC NET JULY 2016)

(1) Aristotle

(2) Strabo

(3) Herodotus

(4) Seneca

Q.15. Who among the following scholars made corrections to Ptolemy’s Book? (UGC NET JULY 2016)

(1) Al-Masudi

(2) Al-Idrisi

(3) AI-BAruni

(4) Ibn-Khaldun

Q.16. Who among the following developed the concept of ‘Mental Map’? (UGC NET JULY 2016)

(1) Downs and Stea

(2) Saarinen

(3) Gould and White

(4) Boulding and Haggerstrand