orphology and Classification nal Examination, April 3, 2018 SSCI 4814 Fi Multipl
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orphology and Classification nal Examination, April 3, 2018 SSCI 4814 Fi Multiple Choice ore land is brought into on production 1. Bef o production one must consider the impact of_ must a. Politics, population, economics, transp b. Economics, politics, population, industry c. Transportation, politics, economics, country d. None of the above portati 2. The basis of any classification system is: a. Scientific knowledge b. Logic c. Pedology d. Computer skills 3. The "father of classification" is: a. Marbut b. Darwin c. Aristotle d. Dokuchaev 4._ _developed the first concept of pedology. a. United States b. France c. Greece d. Ghana e. None of the above 5. The process of recognizing classes or kinds where each class or kind consisting of members having certain characteristics in common is called a. Classification b. Soil Classification c. Soil Microbiology d. Logic seek to formulate a scheme of mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive categories based on the most important characteristic of the things concerned 6. and on the actual relations between them. a. Diagnostic classification b. Scientific Classification c. Structural classificationExplanation / Answer
1.Right answer is A.
According to me among all the factors given above politics, economics, population and transportation are the most significant.
2.Right answer is A.
Everything we see around must be differenciated and classified under a specific logic.
3. Right answer is A.
Not sure, Marbut first developed the first formal classification of soil in US. According to my research on famous pedologists, I am also giving you a list of names, please refer to other reliable sources.
Dokuchaev – father of modern soil science, pedology, soil geography,
Freidrich Albert Fallou – coined the term ‘pedology’,
Eugene W. Hilgard – Father of modern soil science in the USA,
Franklin Hiram King – Father of modern soil physics,
Curtis F. Marbut – Father of American Pedology.
4. Right answer is e.
Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchaev is commonly regarded as father of soil science, he was a Russian geologist and geographer, so the concept of pedology was first developed in Russia.
5. Right answer is a.
6. Right answer is b.
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