This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > Geography > Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 Human Geography Nature And Scope – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 Human Geography Nature And Scope Quiz 11 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the definition of Cultural Instutions? A) Mutual or reciprocal action or influence. B) Long standing practices, traditions, or customs that regulate a group. C) The behaviors, beliefs, and characteristics of a particular group. D) Something that relates to language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Long standing practices, traditions, or customs that regulate a group. 2. The boundaries between Pakistan and India are best described as ..... boundaries. A) Relic. B) Consequent. C) Geometric. D) Antecedent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consequent. 3. Which of the following is the largest megalopolis in the Americas? A) Toronto, Canada. B) Mexico City, Mexico. C) Los Angeles, California. D) Chicago, Illinois. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mexico City, Mexico. 4. The eastern part of the border between the United States and Mexico is created by which physical boundary? A) A man made wall. B) Rocky Mountains. C) Rio Grande River. D) English and Spanish speakers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rio Grande River. 5. Which of the following is a nation-state? A) The Koreas. B) Japan. C) Mongolia. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Japan. 6. To explain the reasons for immigration, demographers use A) Compasses. B) The "push-pull" theory. C) Birthrates and death rates. D) Life expectancies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The "push-pull" theory. 7. The US has lost 400 million hectares of arable land due to A) Immigration. B) Urbanization. C) Emmigration. D) Climate change. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Urbanization. 8. Which of the following is not a physical site characteristic? A) Elevation. B) Type of Soil. C) Amount of rainfall. D) The location of a smaller street in relation to a main street. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The location of a smaller street in relation to a main street. 9. When do fierce winds blow in Trondheim? A) Summers. B) Monsoons. C) Winters. D) All the year round. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Winters. 10. Which of the following is not a sub-field of economic geography A) Geography of resources. B) Cultural geography. C) Geography of Marketing. D) Geography of Industries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cultural geography. 11. Which statement best describes trade networks in Arabia during the Middle Ages? A) They expanded over several continents. B) They were mainly local, in small markets. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They expanded over several continents. 12. Which of the following is not a French geographer? A) Demanzia. B) Ritter. C) Blache. D) Burches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ritter. 13. What are the physical and human features of a location? A) Perception. B) Place. C) Perspective. D) Landscapes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Place. 14. Who had come to search Benda and his friends in the wilds? A) Wild animals. B) Outsiders. C) Tribals. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Outsiders. 15. ..... school of thought employedMarxian theory to explain the basic causeof poverty, deprivation and social inequality A) Behavioural. B) Radical. C) Welfare. D) Humanistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Radical. 16. The core concern of stop and go determinism is- A) The movement of human from a state of necessity to a state of freedom. B) Human being should adapt the dictates of nature. C) Possibilities can be created within a limit and there is no free run without accidents. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Possibilities can be created within a limit and there is no free run without accidents. 17. Not a pull factor for why immigrants came to Michigan and the U.S. A) Chance at a better life. B) Freedom of Religion. C) Slavery. D) Good farm land. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slavery. 18. Which of the following is NOT an example of the cultural element ARTS? A) Gestures. B) TV Shows. C) Music and Dances. D) Movies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gestures. 19. Which one of the following is not correctly matched? A) Ellen C. Semple Welfare. B) Friedrich Ratzel Determinism. C) Vidal de la Blache Possibilism. D) Griffith Taylor Neo Determinism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ellen C. Semple Welfare. 20. Which of the following is an example of an intrafaith boundary? A) Northern Ireland Protestants vs. Catholics. B) Christianity vs. Islam in Former Yugoslavia. C) Tibetan Buddhism vs. Atheist China. D) Hinduism vs. Sikhism in India. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Northern Ireland Protestants vs. Catholics. 21. Which crop is associated with intensive agriculture? A) Rice. B) Wheat. C) Cotton. D) Corn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rice. 22. What is the term to describe human and physical characteristics that make one location different from another? A) Relative location. B) Place. C) Absolute location. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Place. 23. Which school of thought laid emphasis or social categories based ethnicity, race and religion? A) Welfare school of thought. B) Radical school of thought. C) Behavioral school of thought. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Behavioral school of thought. 24. Which of these types of agriculture is practiced in the village of Benda? A) Intensive Cultivation. B) Traditional Cultivation. C) Large Scale Cultivation. D) Shifting Cultivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shifting Cultivation. 25. Is the example describing a push or pull factor?Cameron is moving to Los Angeles because Santa Monica has such high crime rates. A) Push factor. B) Pull factor. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Push factor. 26. All of the following are examples of Human characteristics EXCEPT A) The Pacific Ocean. B) The Golden Gate Bridge. C) The Eiffel Tower. D) The Twin Towers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Pacific Ocean. 27. The movement of the goods and ideas from one culture to another is A) Acculturation. B) Diffusion. C) Assimilation. D) Innovation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diffusion. 28. Not a push factor for immigrating to Michigan and the United States A) Famine. B) Hard times in home country. C) Discrimination. D) Religious Freedom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Religious Freedom. 29. Consider the following situations and choose suitable title for them from the given options.1. Very low level of technological development2. The physical environment act as the "Mother Nature" 3. Afraiding and worshipping of nature by human beingOptions- A) Naturalization of humans. B) Humanization of nature. C) Neodeterminism. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Naturalization of humans. 30. What is important, religion, and special celebrations are all part of which element of culture? A) Values and Beliefs. B) Artifacts. C) Norms. D) Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Values and Beliefs. 31. Who among the following defined human geography as: "Human geography is the synthetic studyof relationship between human societies andearth's surface." A) Lucien Paul Victor Febvre. B) Paul Vidal De La Blache. C) Karl Ritter. D) Friedrich Ratzel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Friedrich Ratzel. 32. Which of the following shows how people adapted to life on the plains? A) They moved there in covered wagons. B) They built towns. C) They cleared land for farms. D) They built sod houses and windmills. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They built sod houses and windmills. 33. This is an idea or innovation that spreads based on its attachment to another concept A) Relocation Diffusion. B) Hierarchical Diffusion. C) Contagious Diffusion. D) Stimulus Diffusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stimulus Diffusion. 34. An example of this is when you rated the 50 states based on your personal knowledge, thoughts, and perceptions. This is known as a? A) Thematic Map. B) Topological Map. C) Topographic Map. D) Mental Map. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mental Map. 35. Which one of the following is the most important factor to show interrelationship between people and environment? A) Direct knowledge of people. B) Human relationship. C) Technology. D) Human mind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Technology. 36. Name the Five Themes of Geography A) Movement, Region, HEI, Location, Place. B) Ask, Acquire, Analyze, Organize, Answer. C) Global, Inter-regional, Regional, Local, Cities. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Movement, Region, HEI, Location, Place. 37. ..... concept shows that neither is there a situation of absolute necessity (environmental determinism) nor is there a condition of absolute freedom (possibilism). A) Humanism. B) Neo-determinism. C) Possibilism. D) Determinism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neo-determinism. 38. This period is Marked by the use of computers and sophisticated statistical tools. A) 1930s through the inter-war period. B) Early colonial period. C) Late 1950s to the late 1960s. D) Later colonial period. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Late 1950s to the late 1960s. 39. Earth's climate is constantly changing. However, man-made warming makes the temperature move too ..... for life to adapt. A) Happily. B) Greedily. C) Slowly. D) Fast. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fast. 40. Which of the following is the best example of a city-state? A) Malaysia. B) France. C) Netherlands. D) Monaco. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monaco. 41. What is the U.S. 1st Megalopolis A) BosWash. B) Texas Triangle. C) California Megalopolis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) BosWash. 42. Which form of commercial agriculture is found primarily in developing countries? A) Truck farming. B) Livestock farming. C) Plantation agriculture. D) Dairy farming. E) Mixed farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plantation agriculture. 43. Which of the following has 97% of the worlds farmers? A) Developed world. B) China. C) Developing world. D) United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Developing world. 44. All of the following crops are products of Mediterranean agriculture EXCEPT A) Apples. B) Grapes. C) Olives. D) Dates. E) Figs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apples. 45. Due to an increase in food supply & better medical care, the world's population recently has A) Remained the same. B) Made educational gains. C) Rapidly increased. D) Slowly decreased. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rapidly increased. 46. The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government. A) Colonialism. B) Imperialism. C) Nation State. D) Devolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Devolution. 47. Feedlots are an example of which kind of farming? A) Extensive farming. B) Intensive farming. C) Shifting cultivation. D) Free-range farming. E) Subsistence farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intensive farming. 48. A ..... is a zone where no state exercises complete political control. A) Frontier. B) Cultural boundary. C) Boundary. D) Geometric boundary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frontier. 49. A major energy source used by the Dutch to power the pumps that drain the sea and create polders A) Wind Power. B) Hydroelectricity. C) Coal. D) Geothermal Energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wind Power. 50. Human beings interact with their physical environment with the help of: A) Animals. B) Technology. C) Arts. D) Birds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Technology. 51. Which religion is an example of a universalizing religion? A) Judaism. B) Christianity. C) Hinduism. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Christianity. 52. ..... is the systematic use of violence by a group calculated to create an atmosphere of fear and alarm among the population or to coerce government into actions it would not otherwise undertake (or refrain from actions it would have taken). A) Government. B) Gerrymandering. C) Dictatorship. D) Terrorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Terrorism. 53. Conceptual difference in Geography is known as- A) Ideography. B) Spatial organization. C) Areal differentiation. D) Dualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dualism. 54. What kind of map shows topics and trends within a location? A) Reference map. B) Thematic map. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thematic map. 55. Type of community that looks like farmland A) Urban. B) Suburban. C) Rural. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rural. 56. A region is defined as an area that A) Shares a common characteristics that are not different from other areas. B) Shares a common characteristics that are similar from other areas. C) Shares a common characteristics that are different from other areas. D) Shares a different characteristics that are similar from other areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shares a common characteristics that are different from other areas. 57. Which economic activity exists in only a few parts of the world today? A) Command. B) Traditional. C) Market. D) Mixed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Traditional. 58. What is Wallonia's main language? A) Spanish. B) Dutch. C) French. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) French. 59. Which one of these is NOT an urban area? A) Paris. B) San Antonio. C) New Mexico. 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