Sat. Sep 28th, 2024

Nature of Geomorphology

  1. Who wrote the book ‘The Unstable Earth’?

    Options:
    1. J.A. Steers
    2. S.W. Wooldridge
    3. C.G. Higgin
    4. Sheldon Judson

    Option: A

  2. Who said that ‘landform development is not time-dependent as envisaged by Davis rather it is time-independent’?

    Options:
    1. A. Penck
    2. Wentworth
    3. W. Penck
    4. S.W. Wooldridge

    Option: B

  3. Who said that the landforms reflect the ratio between the intensity of endogenetic processes and the magnitude of displacement of materials by exogenetic processes?

    Options:
    1. W. Penck
    2. D.W. Johnson
    3. W.M. Davis
    4. None of the above

    Option: A

  4. Which one of the following terms is used by the Penck in the place of Davis’ stage

    Options:
    1. Hogback
    2. Entwickelung
    3. Monadnocks
    4. Thrust

    Option: B

  5. Climatic geomorphology was developed in

    Options:
    1. France and Germany
    2. USA
    3. South America
    4. Russia

    Option: A

  6. Who introduced statistical techniques in geology?

    Options:
    1. Tricart
    2. Cailleux
    3. Krumbein
    4. R.E. Horton

    Option: C

  7. Who brought quantitative revolution in the field of geomorphology?

    Options:
    1. Saper
    2. R.E. Horton
    3. Tricart
    4. Wentworth

    Option: B

  8. Which of the following scholars gave concepts of ‘the landscape cycle, the epigene cycle’, ‘the pediplanation cycle’ and ‘hillslope cycle’?

    Options:
    1. R.J. Chorley
    2. L.C. King
    3. J.T.Hack
    4. W. Penck

    Option: B

  9. Who gave ‘geomorphic threshold model’ and ‘tectonic-geomorphic model’?

    Options:
    1. M. Morisawa
    2. S.A. Schumm
    3. R.C. Palmquist
    4. Hack

    Option: A