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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. Consider the following statements:
1. Ritter identified races by skin colour.
2. Ritter’s concepts regarding the Earth’s geographical patterns were teleological. 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: 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?
4. Who among the following is regarded as the founder of humanistic approach in geography?
5. For preparing the world map, Eratosthenes used prime meridians through which one of the following?
6. Consider the following statements:
1. Ritter saw in all his geographical studies the evidence of God’s plan.
2. All the volumes of the ‘Die Erdkunde’ completed by Ritter covered only Africa and a part of Asia.
3. Like ‘Humboldt’, Ritter’s great work was largely put together on the basis of his own observations. Which of the statements given above are correct?
7. Who among the following was the first to distinguish between general geography and special geography and to show the mutual dependence of these approaches?
8. 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?
9. Regarding von Humboldt, consider the following statements:
1. He assembled materials to show how environments varied with differences in agricultural practices, reflecting interaction among altitude, temperature and vegetation.
2. He developed synthetic reasoning leading to inductive generalisation. Which of the statement(s) given above is / are correct?
10. 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.
11. Geography was first divided into ‘General and’ special by
12. 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
13. The most salient contribution to the study of ‘Spatial diffusion processes’ was made by
14. ‘Human activities are conditioned and sometimes determined by biophysical environment’ is related to the doctrine of
15. 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?
16. Consider the following statements:
1. ‘Humboldt’ gave the first scientific description of the relation of altitude, air temperature, vegetation and agriculture in tropical mountains.
2. Ritter developed the concept that continental climates are colder in winter and warmer in summer than the climates at places near the oceans at the same latitude. Which of the statement(s) given above is / are correct?
17. Manila is the capital of
18. 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?
19. Revenstein and Zelinsky are well known for their work in the context of which one of the following models/theories?
20. Marxist geography found its most detailed and lucid expression in the writings of
21. 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?
22. Consider the following:
1. The Geographical Pivot of History
2. The Normal Cycle of Erosion
3. Revenstein’s Laws of Migration
4. Ratzel’s Anthropogeographie Their correct chronological sequence is
23. 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?
24. Who related the rise of civilisation in the mid-latitudes and lack of development in the tropics to climatic conditions?
25. Consider the following statements:
1. Ellen Semple accepted the Ritzel’s ideas about the state as an organism and introduced them to America.
2. Ellen Semple published her first professional article dealing the role of the Appalachians as a barrier in American history. Which of the statements(s) given above is/are correct?

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