Geography: An Overview
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What is the primary focus of geography?

  • Understanding the Earth's physical features
  • Understanding the Earth's natural phenomena
  • Understanding the Earth and its human and natural complexities (correct)
  • Understanding the Earth's human inhabitants

When was the first recorded use of the word 'geography'?

  • 9th century BCE
  • In ancient Babylon
  • The concepts of geography date back to the earliest attempts to understand the world spatially
  • 276–194 BC (correct)

What are the core concepts of geography consistent between all approaches?

  • Linking natural science and social science disciplines
  • Understanding physical features, human inhabitants, and natural phenomena
  • Space, time, and scale (correct)
  • The study of lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth

Who is credited with the earliest example of an attempted world map?

<p>Ancient Babylon (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What has geography been called in terms of its interdisciplinary nature?

<p>A bridge between natural science and social science disciplines (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What makes geography an extremely broad discipline today?

<p>Its interdisciplinary nature and multiple approaches (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which branch of geography largely focuses on the built environment and how humans create, view, manage, and influence space?

<p>Human geography (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the systematic study of the Earth, its features, and phenomena that take place on it?

<p>Geography (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of approach combines physical and human geography and concerns the interactions between the environment and humans?

<p>Integrated geography (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do geographers seek to classify, compare, generalize, and trace out in their study of phenomena?

<p>Laws of nature (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which technique involves the study and development of maps and geographic information systems?

<p>Cartography (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What kind of approaches do many studies in geography take, employing both quantitative and qualitative methods?

<p>Mixed-methods approaches (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What concept led to the development of integrated geography in the discipline?

<p>The difference between physical and human geography (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

'A thing not of mere names but of argument and reason, of cause and effect' is a description of which aspect of geography?

<p>'Geography as a Science' (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

'To know by heart a whole gazetteer full of them would not, in itself, constitute anyone a geographer.' This quote emphasizes the importance of which aspect in geography?

<p>'Names of places' (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What attribute characterizes something falling into the domain of geography?

<p>Spatial component that can be placed on a map (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

भूगोलीय दृष्टिकोण की अन्तर्वर्तीता का किस पर निर्भर होता है?

<p>भौतिक और मानविक घटनाओं के बीच संबंध (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

किस बात पर भूगोल को जानकार को भूगोलीय नहीं माना जाता?

<p>स्थानों के नाम (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

किस प्रकार की पहुंच भूगोल के अंतर्वर्तीता को सुलझाने में महत्वपूर्ण होती है?

<p>समस्या-समूह (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

किसे 'केवल नामों का ही नहीं, बल्कि मत, कारण, प्रतिक्रिया, परिणाम' का वर्णन माना गया है?

<p>प्राकृतिक और राजनीतिक दुनिया के प्रमुख घटनाओं (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

भूगोल क्या अध्ययन करता है?

<p>मानव और प्राकृतिक जटिलताओं की समझ (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

भूगोल की प्राचीनतम कोशिका 'गेओग्राफिया' का पहला प्रयोग किसने किया था?

<p>एराटोस्थनीज (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

किसकी श्रेणी में भूगोल के संदर्भ में 'पृथ्वी' के साथ-साथ अन्य तारों के शरीरों पर भी समाजिक-वैज्ञानिक पेड़-पौधों के बीच के संक्रियाओं पर प्रकाश डाला जा सकता है?

<p>नक्षाविज्ञान (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

नक्षाविज्ञान में कौन-कौन से संक्रिया/समुलसंक्रिया के अध्यन होते हैं?

<p>प्राकृतिक आपत्तियों के प्रति सतर्कता (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

भूगोल की धारा का मुख्य विषय क्या है?

<p>स्थान (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

किस प्रकार के अनुसंधान में कई अध्ययनकर्ता आँकड़ा-मौलिक और गुणात्मक दोनों प्रकार के दृष्टिकोण अपनाते हैं?

<p>मिश्रित-पद्धति (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

किस तकनीक में परिसरी संरेखन, संवेदनशीलता, साक्षात्कार और सर्वेक्षण शामिल होते हैं?

<p>रिमोट संवेदन (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

किस शाखा में, मुख्य रूप से, मनुष्य निर्मित पर्यावरण पर और कैसे मानुष पर प्रभाव डालते हैं, पर ध्यान केंद्रित होता है?

<p>पुर्ति-परंपरा (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

'सिर्फ नामों का ही नहीं, कुतरक और तर्क, कारण और परिणाम' का वर्णन किस पहलू में है?

<p>महत्व (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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