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  1. Intensity of production declines with distance from the market and the type of land use varies with distance from the market are the two basic tenets of:

  2. A.

     Von Thunen’s Agriculture Location Theory.

    B.

     Environmental determinism

    C.

     Possibilism

    D.

     Probabilism


  3. The grasslands in Canada are known as:

  4. A.

     Prairies.

    B.

     Dawns

    C.

     Pampas

    D.

     Steppes


  5. India's major contacts with out-side world for the last two millennia have been by sea there-by earning the title for India:

  6. A.

     The Mistress of the Eastern Seas

    B.

     The Mistress of the Western Seas

    C.

     The Mistress of the Southern Seas

    D.

     The Mistress of the Northern Seas


  7. The oldest rock system of the world is:

  8. A.

     The Archaean Rock system

    B.

     The Zircons Rock system

    C.

     The Primitive Rock system

    D.

     None of these


  9. The names of Harry Hess, R . S . Dietz, W . J . Morgan and Le Pichon are associated with:

  10. A.

     Plate Tectonics Theory

    B.

     Agriculture Location Theory

    C.

     Diversion of Wind Theory

    D.

     None of these


  11. The concept of sustainable development relates to:

  12. A.

     Intergenerational Equity.

    B.

     Intrageneration Equity

    C.

     Extrageneration Equity

    D.

     All of the above


  13. Which country is known as the "Sugar Bowl" of the world?

  14. A.

     Cuba

    B.

     China

    C.

     Australia

    D.

     India


  15. The Homolographic projection has the correct representation of

  16. A.

     shape

    B.

     area

    C.

     baring

    D.

     distance


  17. The latitudinal differences in pressure delineate a number of major pressure zones, which correspond with

  18. A.

     zones of climate

    B.

     zones of oceans

    C.

     zones of land

    D.

     zones of cyclonic depressions


  19. The higher the wind speed and the longer the fetch or distance of open water across which the wind blows and waves travel, the ____ waves and the ____ energy they process.

  20. A.

     larger, more

    B.

     larger, less

    C.

     smaller, more

    D.

     smaller, less