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World Geography Practice Test: Models & Principles
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In geography, models are theoretical frameworks that let us predict things like spatial relationships, interaction with or across space, and other issues of geography. Geographers base models on large patterns and test these theories against real-world data to help determine how and why things happen as they do. 

For example, the study of Earth's landscape and composition through geography is organized into five themes: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region.

World Geography Practice Test: Models & Principles
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1. With reference to ‘Central Place Theory’ consider the following statements:
1. Christaller dealt only with retailing functions is his theory.
2. Losch attempted to incorporate manufacturing into his model. Which of the statement(s) given above is / are correct?
2. Who of the following was the first scientific geographer who ascertained the length of equator on sound principles?
3. Consider the following statements:
1. Radicalism in geography is critical of geography as a spatial science.
2. Radicalism aimed at a general restructuring of capitalist society.
3. Radicalism in geography relied heavily on empricist methods. Which of the statement (s) given above is / are correct?
4. Who among the following geographers adopted the ‘deductive method’ of study in geography?
5. Ratzel’s second volume of ‘Anthropogeography’ emphasized on
6. Consider the following statements:
1. The genre de vie of Vidal de la Blache refers to the inherited traits that members of a human group learn, what we may call culture.
2. The genre de vie is a basic factor in determining which are the various possibilities offered by nature a particular human group will select. Which of the statements (s) given above is / are correct?
7. Who among the following rejected the teleological idea of final causes and insisted that explanations must be sought in what is chronologically antecedent and in this view, opposed Linnaeus and Leibniz but supported and amplified the ideas of Hume and Goethe?
8. Marxist geography found its most detailed and lucid expression in the writings of
9. Of the following, who enunciated that history should be studied geographically and all geography historically?
10. Revenstein and Zelinsky are well known for their work in the context of which one of the following models/theories?
11. Match List-I (Concept) with List-II (Geographers) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists : List-I List-II
A. Human ecology 1.Grififith Taylor
B. Neo-determinism 2.Harlan Borrows
C. Cultural determinism 3.Carl Ritter
D. Environmental determinism 4.Eduard Ullman Codes A B C D
12. The most salient contribution to the study of ‘Spatial diffusion processes’ was made by
13. Manila is the capital of
14. Consider the following statements:
1. Al-Baruni first presented the idea that the Southern Hemisphere was mostly an open ocean and that most of the world’s land area was in the Northern Hemisphere.
2. Ibn-Batuta quoted in his writings that Hindus believed that the tides were caused by the moon.
15. Which one of the following geographers wrote the book ‘Influences of Geographic Environment’?
16. Which one of the following is the correct statement? Varenius’s ‘special geography’ was
17. Consider the following statements:
1. Semple was very careful to make the point that the environment controls human action.
2. Huntington posited climate, ‘the quality of people’ and culture as a triadic causation of human progress. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
18. Who among the following is the author of ‘Almagest’ and ‘Guide to Geography’ two great books of Roman Period?
19. ‘Human activities are conditioned and sometimes determined by biophysical environment’ is related to the doctrine of
20. Ratzel coined the term ‘Anthropogeography’ which he used for the
21. Which medieval geographer made extensive corrections on Ptolemy’s works?
22. The correct sequence of Von Thunen’s optional land use rings is
23. Geography was first divided into ‘General and’ special by
24. Consider the following statements: The central themes of Vidal de la Blache are that
1. Nature sets limits and offers possibilities for development.
2. Man’s adjustment to nature is the function of traditions and mental structuring. Which of the statement(s) given above is / are correct?
25. Consider the following statements:
1. Ptolemy presumed that the prime meridian passes through Bermuda Island.
2. Ptolemy believed that Ceylon marks the Southern limit of the world. Which of the statement(s) given above is / are correct?

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