Q 1 – Which one of the following scholars coined the term ‘Geography’?
(a) Herodotus
(b) Erathosthenese
(c) Galileo
(d) Aristotle.
(b) Erathosthenese
Q 2 – Which one of the following features can be termed as ‘physical feature’?
(a) Port
(b) Road
(c) Plain
(d) Water park.
(c) Plain
Q 3 – Make correct pairs from the following two columns and mark the correct option.
| 1. Meteorology | A. Population Geography |
| 2. Demography | B. Soil Geography |
| 3. Sociology | C. Climatology |
| 4. Pedology | D. Social Geography |
(a) 1B’2C,3A,4D
(b) 1A,2D,3B,4C
(c) 1D,2B,3C,4A
(d) 1C,2A,3D,4B.
(d) 1C.2A,3D,4B
Q 4 – Which one of the following questions is related to cause-effect relationship?
(a) Why
(b) Where
(c) What
(d) When.
(a) Why
Q 5 – Which one of the following disciplines attempts temporal synthesis?
(a) Sociology
(b) Geography
(c) Anthropology
(d) History.
(a) History.
Q 6 – We study under physical geography:
(a) Weather, soil, atmosphere, etc.
(b) Agriculture
(c) Population, Industry
(d) Urban and rural settlement.
(a) Weather, soil, atmosphere, etc.
Q 7 – Which of the following is not studied under economic geography?
(a) Agriculture
(b) Industry
(c) Transport
(d) Population.
(d) Population
Q 8 – Which of the following is not a sub-branch of Biogeography?
(a) Zoo Geography
(b) Plant Geography
(c) Human Geography
(d) Climate Geography.
(d) Climate Geography
Q 9 – Geography is concerned with the description and explanation of the areal differentiation of the earth’s surface. Who said it?
(a) Herodotus
(b) Erathosthenese
(c) Richarde Hartshorne
(d) Galileo.
(c) Richard Hartshome
Q 10 – Geography studies the differences of phenomena usually related in different parts of the earth’s surface. Who gave this definition?
(a) Hambolt
(b) Ratzel
(c) Kumari Sample
(d) Alfred Hartner.
(d) Alfred Hertner
Q 11 – Which of the following is not studied under population geography?
(a) Sex Ratio
(b) Migration and Occupational Structure
(c) Pollution
(d) Population Density.
(c) Pollution
Q 12 – Who developed systematic geography?
(a) Hambolt
(b) Karl Ritter
(c) Kumari Sample
(d) Alfred Hartner.
(a) Hambolt
Q 13 – Who developed regional geography?
(a) Hambolt
(b) Karl Ritter
(c) Kumari Sample
(d) Alfred Hartner.
(b) Karl Ritter
Q 14 – Under which approach is the world divided into regions at different hierarchical levels and then all the geographical phenomena in a particular region are studied.
(a) Systematic Approach
(b) Physical Approach
(c) Dualism Approach
(d) Regional Approach.
(d) Regional Approach
Q 15 – Under which approach, a phenomenon is studied world over as a whole, and then the identification of typologies or spatial patterns is done?
(a) Systematic Approach
(b) Physical Approach
(c) Dualism Approach
(d)Regional Approach
Systematic Approach.
Q 16 – Regional geography helps in identifying the
(a) realms
(b) regions
(c) distributions
(d) problems
(b) regions
Q 17 – Which one of the following features can be termed as physical features?
(a) Port
(b) Road
(c) Plain
(d) Waterpark
(c) Plain
Q 18 – Who among the following said that ‘geography is a concern with the description and explanation of the areal differentiation of the earth’s surface
(a) Herodotus
(b) Eratosthenes
(c) Richard Hartshorne
(d) Galileo
(c) Richard Hartshorne
Q 19 – The regional approach was developed by
(a) Alexander Von Humboldt.
(b) Karl Ritter
(c) Ptolemy
(d) Ibn-e-Batuta
(b) Karl Ritter
Q 20 – Soils are formed by the process of
(a) Soil synthesis
(b) Pedogenesis
(c) Photosynthesis
(d) Radio genesis
(b) Pedogenesis
Q 21 – What do we study under physical geography?
(a) Weather
(b) Soil
(c) Atmosphere
(d) All of the above
(d) All of the above
Q 22 – Physical geography deals with the
(a) study of settlements
(b) study of culture
(c) study of soils
(d) study of humans
(c) study of soils.
Q 23 – Which one of the following is the concern of geography?
(a) To find the relationship between two country
(b) To find the relationship between two parties
(c) To find the relationship between any two phenomena
(d) None of these
(c) To find the relationship between any two phenomena
Q 24 – To sustain our life, we use
(a) technology
(b) shelter
(c) resources
(d) environment
(c) resources
Q 25 – Geo-informatics comprising techniques such as
(a) remote sensing, GIS, GPS
(b) computer cartography
(c) qualitative techniques
(d) quantitative techniques
(a) remote sensing, GIS, GPS
Q 26 – The major issue for environmental geography is
(a) scientific study of the habitats.
(b) pollution, land degradation, and conservation of the environment.
(c) geographic characteristics of animals and their habitats.
(d) population explosion.
(b) pollution, land degradation, and conservation of environment.
Q 27 – Which one of the following is associated with biogeography?
(a) Geology
(b) Sociology
(c) Zoology
(d) Climatology
(c) Zoology
Q 28 – The description of the earth is known as
(a) Zoology
(b) Geography
(c) Pedology
(d) Geology
(b) Geography
Q 29 – Who frame the phenomenon of cause and effect relationship?
(a) geographer
(b) photographer
(c) both of them
(d) none of them
(a) geographer
Q 30 – How human beings have come to terms with the nature?
(a) through adaptation
(b) through modification
(c) through primitive societies
(d) all of them
(d) all of them
Q 31 – Geography as a discipline is concerned with
(a) what
(b) where
(c) why
(d) all of them
(d) all of them
Q 32 – In India Himalayas have acted as a great barrier to
(a) protect
(b) to rainfall
(c) routes to migrants
(d) none of them
(a) protect
Q 33 – The physical geography is linked with
(a) meteorology
(b) pedology
(c) geomorphology
(d) all of them
(d) all of them.
Q 34 – The shape of the earth is
(a) oval
(b) flat
(c) Geoid
(d) round
(c) Geoid
Q 35 – The major approaches to study geography have been
(a) systematic
(b) regional
(c) both
(d) none of these
(c) both
Q 36 – Who introduced the systematic approach?
(a) Alexander Von Humboldt
(b) Humboldt
(c) Karl Ritter
(d) none of them
(a) Alexander Von Humboldt
Q 37 – Who introduced the regional approach?
(a) Karl Ritter
(b) Humboldt
(c) German geographer
(d) all of them
(a) Karl Ritter
Q 38 – When systematic approach was introduced?
(a) 1779-1859
(b) 1769-1859
(c) 1780-1859
(d) 1769-1865
(b) 1769-1859
Q 39 – What is the main characteristic of geography which got introduced from the very beginning?
(a) cultural
(b) dualism
(c) socialism
(d) naturalism
(b) dualism
Q 40 – The study of land forms, their evolution and relation with processes is
(a) Climatology
(b) Hydrology
(c) Geomorphology
(d) Pedology
(c) Geomorphology