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 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 Human Geography Nature And Scope Quiz 13 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The most important reason why most people in North China grow crops other than wet rice is A) Soil. B) Government subsidies. C) Climate. D) Cultural preference. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climate. 2. To enter and live in a new country A) Export. B) Push factor. C) Culture. D) Immigrate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Immigrate. 3. Choose the sentence that best describes a 'megacity': A) A megacity is a small town with a large population. B) A megacity is a city with a population over 10 million. C) A megacity is a city with a population under 1 million. D) A megacity is a city known for its historical significance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A megacity is a city with a population over 10 million. 4. Geography of tourism is a sub field of A) Population geography. B) Economic geography. C) Urban geography. D) Social geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Economic geography. 5. Pre-existing boundaries, commonly corresponding to physical features such as rivers, lakes and mountains are called ..... A) Subsequent boundaries. B) Antecedent boundaries. C) Relic boundaries. D) Consequent boundaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antecedent boundaries. 6. What kind of resource can be totally replaced? A) Renewable resource. B) Nonrenewable resource. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Renewable resource. 7. Population density measures: A) The number of people living in a specific area. B) The total population of a country. C) The amount of land available for agriculture. D) The growth rate of a nation's economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The number of people living in a specific area. 8. Describing trees that shed their leaves in the autumn A) Taiga. B) Deciduous. C) Siberia. D) Coniferous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deciduous. 9. According to Christaller's central place model, which of the following would most likely have the smallest range? A) A university. B) An international airport. C) A professional football stadium. D) A symphony orchestra hall. E) A grocery store. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) A grocery store. 10. Something that attracts people to an areaExamples:to be with family and friends, attend universities, or better jobsPeople move to certain areas so their basic needs can be met. A) Push factor. B) Pull factor. C) Population. D) History. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pull factor. 11. When a state has ..... , it means it had control over its internal affairs without interference from other states. It is independent. A) Immunity. B) Sovereignty. C) Diplomacy. D) Self-determination. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sovereignty. 12. Which of the following country below does not have "Indo Aryan" as its major Ethnic Group? A) Pakistan. B) India. C) Japan. D) Sri Lanka. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Japan. 13. Which of these is a pull factor? A) Lower cost of living. B) High Crime rates. C) Famine. D) War. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lower cost of living. 14. Which period provided impetus to further explorations in order to access the resources of the regions and to obtain inventoried information? A) Colonial. B) Colloquial. C) Dark. D) Elizabethan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colonial. 15. What is the significance of place names in relation to power? A) They have no impact on the distribution of power. B) They can be used to assert control and erase indigenous cultures. C) They determine the economic opportunities in a region. D) They reflect the cultural identity of a place. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They can be used to assert control and erase indigenous cultures. 16. Which of the following is an example of a 'pull factor' in migration? A) Natural disasters. B) Job opportunities in a new city. C) Political instability. D) War in the home country. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Job opportunities in a new city. 17. Eastern Russia is considered part of Southeast Asia. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 18. A rapid increase in the value of houses followed by a sharp decline in their value is known as this A) Housing Balloon. B) Housing Crunch. C) Housing Tide. D) Housing Bubble. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Housing Bubble. 19. All of the following are ways people modify the environment EXCEPT A) Clearing land. B) Draining swamps. C) Saving forest areas. D) Building irrigation systems. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saving forest areas. 20. What is the role of economic geography? A) To study the movement of economic opportunity. B) To examine the distribution of power and resources. C) To explore the cultural expressions of different regions. D) To analyze the physical features of urban areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To study the movement of economic opportunity. 21. Concept which reflects a middle path between the two ideas of determinism and Possibilism A) Stop & Go Determinism. B) Environmental Determinism. C) Possibilism. D) Probabilism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stop & Go Determinism. 22. What is free trade? A) Trade that costs nothing. B) International trade. C) Trade with countries with little to no tariffs or quotes. D) Countries that trade with other countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trade with countries with little to no tariffs or quotes. 23. What is the definition of nation? A) People who think of themselves as one based on a shared sense of culture and history and who desire political autonomy. B) A state with a single nation. C) A group of people (a nation) with a common culture occupying a particular territory, but they do not have their own independent state. D) A state with two or more nations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People who think of themselves as one based on a shared sense of culture and history and who desire political autonomy. 24. Which of the following is not an example of Mediterranean agriculture? A) Lemons in California. B) Grapes in Southwest Australia. C) Olives in Italy. D) Raisins in Greece. E) Oranges in Florida. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Oranges in Florida. 25. Something that makes people want to leave their current location. A) Culture. B) Push Factor. C) Pull Factor. D) Immigrate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Push Factor. 26. Which element of geography is concerned with the characteristics, distributions, and migration of human populations on Earth's surface A) Places and Regions. B) Human Systems. C) Physical Systems. D) Uses of Geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human Systems. 27. Which of the following is not a Cultural Institution? A) Government. B) Education. C) Economy. D) Music & Arts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Music & Arts. 28. Psephology is sister disciplines of which sub fields of human geography A) Electoral geography. B) Military geography. C) Agriculture geography. D) Industries geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Electoral geography. 29. Concept which reflects a middle path(Madhyam Marg) between the two ideas ofenvironmental determinism and possibilism. A) Quantitative revolution. B) Neo Determinism. C) Areal Differntiation. D) Neo Possiblism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neo Determinism. 30. Government control of the factors of production is A) Communism. B) Free Market. C) Socialism. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Communism. 31. Name the model:Business agglomerates in the CBD, surrounding this is the zone of transition that is dominated by older housing, flats and light industry. This zone includes a large proportion of ethnic minorities. Better housing would be found further out in the suburbs. FInally, the commutor zone extended beyond the city (counterurbanisation) A) The Sector Model. B) Concentric Zone Model. C) Multiple Nuclei Model. D) British Urban land Use Model. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Concentric Zone Model. 32. Uses natural resources or raw materials A) Primary Industry. B) Secondary Industry. C) Tertiary Industry. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary Industry. 33. Communist governments often turn into this type of government after power struggles occur A) Dictatorship. B) Democracy. C) Oligarchy. D) Monarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dictatorship. 34. A pattern of settlements in a country such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement A) Dense Cuty. B) Secondary City Rule. C) Dense Settlements. D) Primate City Rule. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Primate City Rule. 35. What event caused most people to go from working in their homes to working in factories? A) Economic Change. B) Industrial Revolution. C) Climate Change. D) Agricultural Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Industrial Revolution. 36. 'The neo-determinism conceptually attempts to create imbalance nullifying the either or dichotomy'. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 37. The world's three major monotheistic religions originated in which of the following regions A) East Asia. B) Africa. C) Eastern Europe. D) Western Europe. E) Southwest Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Southwest Asia. 38. Which economic system has NO government involvement? Businesses and consumers make all of the choices? A) Traditional. B) Command. C) Market. D) Mixed Market. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Market. 39. A military leader who becomes the head of a country, often by force: A) Oligarch. B) Governor. C) Dictator. D) Socialist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dictator. 40. The spread of material and non-material characteristics from one culture to another A) Cultural boundary. B) Free enterprise. C) Cultural diffusion. D) Metropolitan area. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cultural diffusion. 41. Which of the following best defines movement? A) Explains where something is. B) Describes both the physical and human features of a building, area, city, etc. C) Describes the relationships between humans and the environment in which they live. D) How people, products, information and ideas get from one place to another. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How people, products, information and ideas get from one place to another. 42. Textile valley of Tamil Nadu is ..... A) Karur. B) Tirupur. C) Salem. D) Madurai. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tirupur. 43. McMohan line is an international boundary between A) India and Myanmar. B) India and Pakistan. C) India and China. D) India and Bangladesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) India and China. 44. ..... dam was constructed across the river Thenpennai in Chengum taluk. A) Sathanur. B) Bhavani sagar. C) Vaigai. D) Krishnagiri. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sathanur. 45. Which of the following is not an example of a culture trait? A) Food. B) Your car. C) Religion. D) Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Your car. 46. The understanding of concepts of friction and heat helped us discover ..... A) Disease. B) Planes. C) Fire. D) Cars. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fire. 47. Which subfield of human geography examines markers of identity across space? A) Political geography. B) Cultural geography. C) Urban geography. D) Physical geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cultural geography. 48. What type of location is being described in the statement: "Kenya is south of Ethiopia and Sudan" ? A) Relative location. B) Absolute location. C) Place. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Relative location. 49. These are features that occur naturally. (Examples:rivers, lakes, dunes, mountains) A) Human-environment interaction. B) Region. C) Human. D) Physical. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Physical. 50. When Marco Polo wrote about the Mongolian tribe known as the Tartars, he was showing his interest in ..... geography. A) Physical. B) Human. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human. 51. Neo Determinism is also known as A) Environmental Determinism. B) Scientific Determinism. C) Possibilism. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scientific Determinism. 52. Citizens are allowed to vote on laws A) Autocracy. B) Representative Democracy. C) Theocracy. D) Direct Democracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Direct Democracy. 53. According to the concentric zone model, a city develops in a series of A) Corridors. B) Nodes. C) Sectors. D) Rings. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rings. 54. Which early civilization developed along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers? A) Mesopotamia. B) Indus Valley. C) China. D) Egypt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mesopotamia. 55. Which of these causes is a pull factor? A) Violence. B) Education. C) Bad politics. D) Lack of resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Education. 56. Push factors are things that drive people away from areas A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 57. Which is an example of cultural convergence A) Amish culture. B) Cultures with a unique language. C) Government controlled media. D) Soccer as an international sport. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soccer as an international sport. 58. What have the boys been trying to collect from the forest? A) Mahua. B) Gajjhara. C) Palash. D) Sal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gajjhara. 59. Fishing, Mining, Farming, and Forestry are examples of what economic activity? A) Secondary. B) Primary. C) Quaternary. D) Teritiary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Primary. 60. ..... is the process of settlement, formation, expansion, and change. A) Urbanization. B) Suburbanization. C) Urban Sprawl. D) City Growth. 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