Human Geography: Nature and Scope Class 12 MCQs Questions with Answers

 Geography class 12 chapter 01

 Human Geography: Nature and Scope Class 12 MCQs Questions with Answers

 

Q. Which one of the following is the main reason for male migration in India ?

a. Business

b. Education

C. Work and employment

d. Marraiage

Answer: C

 

Q. Identify the country with the highest sex ratio in the world .?

a. Japan

b. France

c. USA

d. Latvia

Answer: A

Q. Which one of the following figures represents the working age group of the population?

a. 15 to 65 years

b. 15 to 59 years

c. 15 to 66 years

d. 15 to 64 years

Answer: B

Q. Name the school of thought of Human Geography that employed the Marxian theory. ?

a. Deterministic school of thought

b. Behavioural school of thought

c. Radical school of thought

d. Humanistic school of thought

Answer: C

Q. Name the Headquarters of Northern Railway zone of the India?

a. New Delhi

b. Hajipur

c. Mumbay

d. Chandigard

Answer: a

Q. Which one of the following is not an approach in Human geography ?

a. Spatial oranisation

b. Areal differentiation

c. Exploration and description

d. Quantitative revolution

Answer: C

Q. Which one one of the following is not a Push Factor ?

a. Water Shortage

b. Medical/Educational facilities

c. Unemployment

d. Epidemics

Answer: B

Q. Who coined determinism ?

a. Paul Vidal de la Blache

b. Ellen C.Semple

c. Griffith Taylor

d. Ratzel

Answer: C

Q. Which of these is not a characteristic of the study of Geography ?

a. Integrative

b. Idealistic

c. Practical

d. Empirical

Answer: B

Q. The interaction between primitive human society and strong forces of nature was termed as ………………………………?

a. Nondeterminism

b. Environmental determinism

c. Possibilism

d. None of the above

Answer: B

Q. Name of the school of thought of Human Geography that employed the Marxian theory .

a. Deterministic school of thought

b. Humanistic school of thought

c. Behavioural school of thought

d. Radical school of thought

Answer: D

Q: Which concept helped to discover fire?

a. Gravity

b. DNA

c. Dynamics

d. Friction

Answer: D

Q. Which geographer out of the following belongs to France ?

a. Huntigton

b. Vidal de la Blache

c. Semple

d. Trewartha

Answer: B

Q. Name the Tri-Equilibrium factors of human geography.

a. Biotic

b. Abiotic

c. Cultural factors

d. All of these

Answer: D

Q. The two main branches of geography are

a. Economic and Social

b. Physical and Human

c. Physical and Historical

d. Physical and Urban

Answer: B

Q. The study of inter relationship between human and environment is ……….?

a. Human Geography

b. Economics

c. Political Science

d. History

Answer: A

Q. The most important factor in the interaction between people and environment ………?

a. Human brotherhood

b. Human attitude

c. People’s perception

d. Technology

Answer: D

Q. Which element is called ‘ Mother Nature’?

a. Industrial Environment

b. Political Environment

c. Cultural Environment

d. Physical Environment

Answer: D



Q. Which one of the following is not a source of geographical information?

(A) traveller’s accounts
(B) old maps
(C) samples of rock materials from the moon
(D) ancient epics.

Answer: (D) Ancient epics.

Q. Name the Tri – Equilibrium factors of human geography.

(i) Biotic
(ii) Abiotic
(iii) cultural factors.
(iv) All of these

Answer: (iv) All of these

Q. Name the school of thought of Human Geography that employed the Marxian theory.

(i) Deterministic school of thought
(ii) Behavioural school of thought
(iii) Radical school of thought
(iv) Humanistic school of thought

Answer

(iii) Radical school of thought

Q. Main feature of Early Colonial period is:

(i) the discovery and exploration of new areas
(ii) identifying the uniqueness of any region
(iii) phase of the quantitative revolution
(iv) grand generalisations and the applicability of universal theories

Answer: (i) the discovery and exploration of new areas

Q. Which concept helped to discover fire?

(i) Gravity
(ii) Friction
(iii) DNA
(iv) Dynamics

Answer : (ii) Friction

Q. To which country does Ellen C. Semple belong?

(i) U.S.A
(ii) France
(iii) Germany
(iv) England.

Answer: (i) U.S.A

Q. Which one of the following is not an approach in human geography?

(i) Areal differentiation
(ii) Spatial organisation
(iii) Quantitative revolution
(iv) Exploration and description.

Answer: (iv) Exploration and description

Q. Who is not a French geographer out of the following?

(i) Blache
(ii) Bruches
(iii) Demanzia (iv) Ritter

Ans: (iv) Ritter

Q. Who was the founder of neo-determinism?

(i) Griffith Taylor
(ii) Blache
(iii) Mackinder
(iv) Herbertson

Answer: (i) Griffith Taylor



Q. The two main branches of geography are

(i)Economic and Social
(ii) Physical and Urban
(iii) Political and Historical
(iv) Physical and Human

Answer : (iv) Physical and Human

Q. Which of these scholars defined Human Geography as ‘the synthetic study of relationship between human societies and earth’s surface’?

(i) Paul Vidal de la Blache
(ii) Ellen C. Semple
(iii) Ratzel
(iv) Karl Marx

Answer: (iii) Ratzel

Q. Which one of the following is the most important factor in the interaction between people and the environment?

(i) human intelligence
(ii) people’s perception
(iii) technology
(iv) human brotherhood.

Answer: (iv) Human Brotherhood.

Q. Which one of the following is not a source of geographical information?

(i) traveller’s accounts
(ii) old maps
(iii) samples of rock materials from the moon
(iv) ancient epics.

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(iv) Ancient epics

Q. Which geographer out of the following belongs to France?

(i) Huntigton
(ii) Vidal de la Blache
(iii) Semple
(iv) Trewartha

Answer: (ii) Vidal de la Blache

Q. Who was the Father of modern human geography?

(i) Humboldt
(ii) Ritter
(iii) Ratzel
(iv) None of these

Answer: (iii) Ratzel

Q. “Human geography is the study of mutually changeable relations of active human and unstable earth.” Who gave this definition?

(i) Ratzel
(ii) Ellen Semple
(iii) Blache
(iv) Carl Sauer

Answer: (ii) Ellen Semple

Q. Which of these is not a characteristic of the study of Geography?

(i) Integrative
(ii) Practical
(iii) Idealistic
(iv) Empirical

Answer: (iii) Idealistic





Q. Who coined determinism?

(i) Ratzel
(ii) Griffith Taylor
(iii) Ellen C. Semple
(iv) Paul Vidal de la Blache

Answer: (ii) Griffith Taylor



Q. Which approach was supported by Vidal de la Blache?

(i) Determinism
(ii) Possibilism
(iii) Humanism
(iv) Welfare approach.

Answer: (ii) Possibilism





Q. Which subject is called mother discipline?

(i) Geography
(ii) Economics
(iii) History
(iv) Political Science.

Answer : (i) Geography



Q. Who was the founder of neo-determinism?

(i) Blache
(ii) Mackinder
(iii) Both
(iv) None of these

Answer : (iv) None of these





Q. Who first used the term Geography?

(i) Hipparchus
(ii) Hecataeus
(iii) Herodotus
(iv) Eratosthenes

Answer : (iv) Eratosthenes





Q. Which of these factors is the most important consideration for the relationship between humans and environment?

(i) People’s perception
(ii) Technology
(iii) Human intelligence
(iv) Human brotherhood

Answer : (ii) Technology