Geographic Thought

JKPSC Assistant Professor (Geography) · Geography · 49 practice questions with answers and explanations: 2 Easy, 46 Medium, 1 Hard.

Sample questions

Sample Easy question 1

Eratosthenes is known for:

  1. Measuring the circumference of the Earth
  2. Discovering America
  3. Inventing the compass
  4. Drawing the first world map
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Answer: A. He used the Sun's shadows at Syene and Alexandria.

Sample Easy question 2

The geographer known as the 'Father of Modern Geography', together with Carl Ritter, is:

  1. Eratosthenes
  2. Alexander von Humboldt
  3. Ptolemy
  4. Strabo
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Answer: B. He wrote 'Kosmos'.

Sample Medium question 3

'The Nature of Geography' (1939) was written by:

  1. Edward Soja
  2. William Bunge
  3. Carl Sauer
  4. Richard Hartshorne
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Answer: D. He saw geography as the study of areal differentiation.

Sample Medium question 4

The 'quantitative revolution' in geography began in the:

  1. 1900s
  2. 1980s
  3. 1930s
  4. 1950s
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Answer: D. It brought statistics and models into geography.

Sample Medium question 5

Radical (Marxist) geography was championed by:

  1. David Harvey
  2. Ellen Semple
  3. Richard Hartshorne
  4. Ptolemy
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Answer: A. He wrote 'Social Justice and the City' (1973).

Sample Hard question 6

William Bunge's 'Theoretical Geography' (1962) is a landmark of:

  1. Regional geography
  2. Environmental determinism
  3. Radical geography
  4. Spatial analysis during the quantitative revolution
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Answer: D. It argued for a geometric, theoretical geography.

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