Geography One-Liners for various competitive examinations
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1-The study of earth’s structure and the rocks that make up the earth is called
(a) Geology (b) Geomorphology (c) Hydrology (d) Glaciology
2-Who invented the Isotherms?
(a) Herodotus (b) Humboldt (c) Aristotle (d) Pythagoras
3-General geography was written by
(a) Bernhardus Varenius (b) Blanche (c) Ptolemy (d) None of these
4-The study of soil science is called
(a) Climatology (b) Biogeography (c) Pedology (d) Geology
5-The study of earthquakes and their bearings on the internal structure of the Earth is called
(a)Geology (b) Seismology (c) Glaciology (d) None of these
6-The science and art of drawing maps and charts on the selected scale is called
(a)Pedology (b) Geology (c)Hydrology (d) Cartography
7-An early statement of Geography as Chorology was provided by
(a) Kant (b) Ritter (c) Humboldt (d) Varenius
8-Who wrote the five-volume book ‘Kosmos’?
(a) Pythagoras (b) Carl Ritter (c) Humboldt (d) Aristotle
9-The study of the distribution of human communities on the Earth in the content of their geographical environment is called
(a)Anthropogeography (b) Paleography (c)Biogeography (d) Climatology
10-Human geography is also known as
(a) Economic geography (b)Cultural geography (c) Urban geography (d) Demography
11-The approach of ‘Determinism’ is related with
(a) Aristotle (b) Huntington (c) Herodotus (d) Hipparchus
12-Which one of the following scholars was the first to divide the world landmass into three continents: Europe, Asia, and Libya (Africa)?
(a)Herodotus (b) Hecataeus (c) Anaximander (d) Eratosthenes
13-Chain of roughly adjacent metropolitan areas are called
(a) Global city (b) Metropolis (c) Megalopolis (d) None of these
14-Who wrote ‘Geographia Generalis’?
(a) Ptolemy (b) Herodotus (c) Bernhardus Varenius (d) None of these
15-The study of physical geography in the past geological ages is called
(a) Biogeography (b) Geology (c) Climatology (d)Paleography
Ans-
1 (b) 2 (b) 3 (a) 4 (c) 5 (b) 6 (d) 7 (c) 8 (c) 9 (a) 10 (b) 11 (b) 12(a) 13(c) 14(c) 15(d).
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