State PCS PYQPrelims 2022

BPSC – Combined Competitive Examination · প্রশ্ন 39

Who proposed the concept of the geographical cycle of erosion?

  1. W.M. Davis
  2. S.W. Wooldridge
  3. Kober
  4. A. Holmes
  5. None of the above / More than one of the above
উত্তর দেখান ও ব্যাখ্যা

উত্তর: (A) W.M. Davis

ব্যাখ্যা

William Morris Davis (1899) described landscape evolution through stages of youth, maturity and old age.

  • (A) সঠিক

    Correct: Davis proposed the cycle of erosion (youth, maturity, old age).

  • (B) ভুল

    Wrong: not this concept.

  • (C) ভুল

    Wrong: known for geosyncline theory.

  • (D) ভুল

    Wrong: known for convection current theory.

  • (E) ভুল

    Wrong: only one of the options A–D is correct.