Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 Human Geography Nature And Scope Quiz 12 (60 MCQs)

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1. Non-renewable resources cannot be replaced once they are consumed
2. What is one or more features that make an area different from those around it?
3. People from many different countries live in New York City. Children speaking many different languagesattend its public schools.Why does New York City have so many different languages?
4. In which zone of the city are land prices the highest?
5. When Marco Polo how difficult the land was to navigate in Mongolia, he was showing his interest in ..... geography.
6. What is the largest body of water on the planet?
7. The students at Smith Elementary are working on a recycling project. How will this effort directly impact theenvironment?
8. A city and its suburbs that form a large urban area are called:
9. Which map element identifies the topic of the map?
10. If it's midnight at the Prime Meridian, then what time is it at the International Date Line?
11. What type of community has a decent amount of land?
12. What causes the most water and air pollution?
13. What is the term for the meaning we give a location and the sense of belonging we derive from constructing a place physically and in our minds?
14. Cultural landscape is closest in meaning to which of the following?
15. Which of the following does NOT act as a centrifugal force for a state?
16. What is the largest multinational state?
17. Which term refers to what happens when cities grow larger and spread into surrounding areas?
18. Which map element identifies the ratio between distance on the map and distance in the real world?
19. What type of economy is the US?
20. The llama and alpaca were first domesticated in
21. Which one of the following is not a Culture Trait?
22. Which of the following best describes the concept of "cultural landscape" in geography?
23. A geographic factor that contributes to a higher population is
24. What is the term for a region that's united by how people think about or see it?
25. What does the field of urban geography study?
26. This is an idea or innovation that spreads by moving from larger to smaller places, often with little regard to the distance between places, and often influence by social elites
27. What river flows north and is the main water source in a very arid region?
28. What physical feature do people usually settle around?
29. What are the 2 most spoken languages in the U.S.?
30. The busiest waterway in Europe. Connects industrial regions to the North Sea and runs through the most populated region of Europe
31. Dragonback Way, Frisco, TX 75034 is an example of what kind of location?
32. Which statement about globalization is correct?
33. Which economic activity would intellectual occupations which are advanced and specialized such as thinking, research and developing new ideas fall under?
34. Which of the following metaphor is used for river?
35. What role does 'globalization' play in human geography?
36. Single, self interested person who uses force to stay in power best describes the leadership from which type of government?
37. Which of the following are the major components of the earth?
38. All of the following are aspects of commercial agriculture EXCEPT
39. Can people's standard of living be different?
40. Which of the following are characteristics of economically developing nations?
41. Which characteristic of a place is most important in determining centrality or isolation?
42. Demarcated boundaries can be described as what?
43. India, China and Nigeria together forms ..... of the total growth of the world's urban population.
44. Which school of thought is mainly concerned with social well being of people?
45. Hong Kong is a .....
46. What type of government is ruled by the people?
47. The layering of geographic data by computers into data sets is known as:
48. Which sub-field of geography is called Demography?
49. What theme of geography deals with the transport of goods around the world?
50. In which period grand generalizations and the applicability of universal theories became popular in geographical studies?
51. People with common racial, national, tribal, religious, or cultural backgroundExample:Indians, Spanish, and Chinese
52. Geographers group like things together into regions in order to make them easier to study. What type of region would a corn field be?
53. An outward display of culture. Like a fist bump, high five, kisses on the cheek.
54. In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of
55. A political border that is established by a physical geographic feature such as a mountain range or a river is a
56. The United States is the most powerful economy in the World
57. Shifting cultivation is most commonly found in which climate region?
58. The term used to describe the volume of water used to produce everything that a person consumes in one year is ..... per capita.
59. In which period Imperial and trade interests prompted the discovery and exploration of new areas.
60. Corn was first domesticated in