Geographical Thought Set 2

The ILIAD and ODYSSEY was written by...............

• Homer

• Ptolemy

• Eratosthenes

• Aristotle

Greeks were famous for............?

• Physical geography

• Mathematical Geography

• Human Geography

• Social Geography

Who reported the phenomenon of Monsoon winds to Arab world ?

• Ibn Khaldun

• Iban Batuta

• Al Biruni

• Al Masudi

Who wrote Kitab-al-Hind?

• Al Idrisi

• Al Biruni

• Iban Batuta

• Ibn Hawqal

Who among following stated "the apparent westward movement of stars is due to the rotation of the earth own its own axis"

• Varah Mihira

• Aryabhata

• Brahmagupta

• Bhaskara

'Brihat Samhita' was written by ......

• Aryabhata

• Chanakya

• Varaha Mihira

• Kalidasan

Who among following are credited with preparing first world map with scale

• Strabo

• Eratosthenes

• Ptolemy

• Anaximander

Who gave the concept of ‘stop and go determinism’?

• Griffith Taylor

• E.C.Semple

• Ratzel

• Vidal de la Blache

“Nature provided opportunities and human being make use of these and slowly nature gets humanized and starts bearing the imprints of human endeavor.” reflects the concept of:.

• Possibilism

• Neo-determinism

• Environmental determinism

• None of these.

Stop and go determinism is also known as:

• Possibilism

• Determinism

• Neo-determinism

• None of the above.