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 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 Human Geography Nature And Scope Quiz 15 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The people involved with Westward Movement. A) Native Americans. B) African Americans. C) Orphans. D) Pioneers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pioneers. 2. ..... School of thought employed Marxian theory to explain the basic cause of poverty, deprivation and social inequality A) Welfare or Humanistic. B) Radical. C) Behavioural. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Radical. 3. Something that drives people from an areaExamples:war, violence, or persecution A) Push factor. B) Population. C) Export. D) Pull factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Push factor. 4. A long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs, as in Norway and Iceland, typically formed by submergence of a glaciated valley A) Peninsula. B) Western Uplands. C) Fjord. D) Taiga. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fjord. 5. The United States is considered to be both a Totalitarian government and a Representative Democracy. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 6. If sea levels rise, places will A) Get hotter. B) Reduce ice. C) Flood. D) Become dry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flood. 7. A country that has high population density has A) Few urban areas. B) Some crowded areas. C) A lot of land per person. D) Few people under 65 years old. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Some crowded areas. 8. Population increases happen when a country experiences A) Higher migration rates than immigration. B) Higher death rates than birth rates. C) Higher birth rates than death rates. D) Higher immigration than birth rates. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Higher birth rates than death rates. 9. What happened in 1869 that allowed more people to settle in the West? A) The Purchase of Califronia. B) Louisiana Purchase. C) The transcontinental Railroad was completed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The transcontinental Railroad was completed. 10. Which of the following is known as Madhyam Marg A) Possibilism. B) Humanism. C) Determinism. D) Neo-determinism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neo-determinism. 11. Which event symbolically marked the end of the Cold War? A) The election of President Ronald Reagan in 1980. B) The end of World War II, 1945. C) The end of the Vietnam War, 1975. D) The Soviet invasion of Hungary, 1956. E) The collapse of the Berlin Wall, 1989. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) The collapse of the Berlin Wall, 1989. 12. Regions, villages, towns are described as ..... A) Arteries. B) Micro organism. C) Organism. D) Living organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Organism. 13. Which map shows the Earth's physical features with colors, patterns, and elevation? A) Special Purpose Map. B) Physical Map. C) Political Map. D) Relational Map. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Physical Map. 14. Service industry (doctors, teaching, lawyer ..... ) is an example of A) Tertiary activity. B) Secondary activity. C) Primary activity. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tertiary activity. 15. If you work in a cottage, where are you working? A) Factory. B) Field. C) Home. D) Store. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Home. 16. Which civilization acted as a cultural hearth? A) Spanish. B) Mesopotamia. C) Australia. D) Klingon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mesopotamia. 17. When people adapt, modify and depend on their environment this is known as A) Location. B) Movement. C) Region. D) Human environment interaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Human environment interaction. 18. Which type of map would show land forms and bodies of water A) Climate map. B) Physical map. C) Political map. D) Vegetation map. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Physical map. 19. GPS systems use what to help track your location? A) Gravity. B) Meteors. C) Satellites. D) Planets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Satellites. 20. Which term means to judge a culture based on one's own culture? A) Lingua franca. B) Cultural relativism. C) Acculturation. D) Ethnocentrism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ethnocentrism. 21. Which of the following best describes cultural landscape? A) A natural environment untouched by humans. B) A region defined by its climate. C) A landscape modified by human activity. D) A geographical area with diverse wildlife. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A landscape modified by human activity. 22. Who proposed the concept of Neo-determinism / Go and stop determinism? A) Sample. B) Blache. C) Griffith Taylor. D) Ratzel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Griffith Taylor. 23. Which of the following best describes the European Mediterranean climate? A) Wet summers; dry winters. B) Blistering summers; freezing winters. C) Monsoon-laden summers; arctic winters. D) Warm, dry summers; rainy, mild winters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Warm, dry summers; rainy, mild winters. 24. Located north of Western Europe. Contains large oil & natural gas reserves and has been significant for trade and fishing. A) English Channel. B) North Sea. C) Central Uplands. D) Mediterranean Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) North Sea. 25. Linear, centralized, random, and grid patterns help to define the ..... A) Organization of Earth's surface into distinct areas. B) Correct arrangement of objects (continents) on Earth. C) Physical gap between 2 objects. D) Position of something on Earth's surface. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Correct arrangement of objects (continents) on Earth. 26. Developing countries tend to rely on ..... for labor A) Humans and animals. B) High tech equipment. C) Immigrant labor. D) Genetically engineered pesticides. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Humans and animals. 27. Can latitude affect population distribution A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 28. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, it said it wanted to reunited the German minority living in Poland with Germany. This is an example of A) Nationalism. B) Irrendentism. C) Supranationalism. D) Allocation dispute. E) Operational disputeTagsIMP-4.B.1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irrendentism. 29. What happens when agriculture techniques improve? A) People remain nomadic. B) Everyone in the community becomes a farmer. C) People can grow more food and have larger civilizations. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People can grow more food and have larger civilizations. 30. The process of the spread of an idea and/or dissemination of an innovation from its source area to other cultures, is the process of cultural: A) Simultaion. B) Adaptation. C) Diffusion. D) Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diffusion. 31. Understanding how and why people move is important to A) Geographers. B) Historians. C) Economists. D) Geographers and historians. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geographers. 32. A particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent. A) Location. B) Formal Region. C) Region. D) Place. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Place. 33. Where do many rural residents in China move to for work? A) Suburbs. B) Villages. C) Cities. D) Islands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cities. 34. Low levels of technological development leads to which type of human nature relationship? A) Environmental Determinism. B) Possiblism. C) Neo Determinism. D) Stop and Go Determinism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Environmental Determinism. 35. Which term means "to enter and live in a new country" ? A) Export. B) Immigrate. C) Emigrate. D) Import. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Immigrate. 36. Would a traditional economic system work well in a large area like Chicago? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 37. Globalizaton includes all of the following EXCEPT A) More powerful financial markets. B) More isolated states. C) Stronger forces pushing for devolution. D) Stronger transnational corporations. E) Weaker state sovereignty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) More isolated states. 38. Nonrenewable resources include A) Resources that cannot be replaced, and once they are gone, they are gone. B) Resources that can be totally replaced or are always available. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Resources that cannot be replaced, and once they are gone, they are gone. 39. Which economic system has complete government control? A) Traditional. B) Command. C) Market. D) Mixed Market. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Command. 40. The Third Agricultural Revolution is also known as A) Industrial Revolution. B) Seed Agricultural Revolution. C) Green Revolution. D) GMO Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Green Revolution. 41. A territory tied to a state rather than being completely independent is a A) Colony. B) Nation. C) Nation-state. D) State. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colony. 42. In which type of economy are most of the means of production privately owned? A) Traditional economy. B) Command economy. C) Mixed economy. D) Market economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Command economy. 43. The broad approach to geography in which the focus is on identifying the uniqueness of any regionand understanding how and why it was different fromothers. A) Spatial Organisation. B) Quantitative revolution. C) Regional analysis. D) Areal Differnetiation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Areal Differnetiation. 44. Which of the following metaphor is used for glaciers? A) Eye. B) Mouth. C) Snout. D) Face. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Snout. 45. Which of the following would be best illustrated by a large scale map? A) The arrangement of streets in a village. B) Highways that connect regions in a large country. C) Of the whole world. D) Connections among major world cities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The arrangement of streets in a village. 46. POPULATION GROWTH IS CAUSED WHEN BIRTH RATE IS HIGHER THAN DEATH RATE A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 47. Pushed the Native Americans from their land. A) Slavery. B) Freedom. C) Overcrowding. D) Forced to leave and relocate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Forced to leave and relocate. 48. Which groups have been gaining more local power around the world as a result of devolution? A) French-speaking people. B) Recent immigrants from Syria. C) Spanish-speaking people. D) Indigenous people. E) Recent immigrants from East Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indigenous people. 49. In the U.S.A., what crop is most frequently planted in the mixed crop & livestock region because it generates higher yields per area than any other crop? A) Wheat. B) Soybeans. C) Corn. D) Apples. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Corn. 50. Arrange the following approaches in a correct order according to their development1. Spatial organization2. Regional approach3. Areal differentiation4. Humanistic approach A) 4., 1., 2., 3. B) 1., 2., 3., 4. C) 2., 3., 1., 4. D) 3., 2., 1., 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2., 3., 1., 4. 51. Which of the following is a pull factor affecting migration to some of the more developed countries? A) Severe famine. B) Loss of factory jobs. C) The rise of authoritarian regime. D) Universal health care. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Universal health care. 52. Which of the following is true about the United States? A) The only important natural resources of the United States are trees, soil, and water. B) The United States is rich in many natural resources. C) The United States has used up most of its natural resources. D) The United States has never made good use of its natural resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The United States is rich in many natural resources. 53. According to the rank-size rule, which of the following is typically true of higher-order services, such as hospitals with a large number of medical specialties? A) They are located in suburbs. B) They are located in small towns. C) They have smaller ranges and thresholds. D) They have larger ranges and thresholds. E) They have larger ranges and smaller thresholds. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They have larger ranges and thresholds. 54. Which economic activity would lawyers, doctors, salespeople, and customer service representatives fall under? A) Secondary. B) Tertiary. C) Quaternary. D) Primary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tertiary. 55. Hinduism is which type of religion? A) Animistic. B) Reijistic. C) Monotheistic. D) Polytheistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polytheistic. 56. Yoga began in India. It has been adopted all around the United States and the world. It has been changed and modified to help fit each countries or regions need. What diffusion type is this? A) Stimulus. B) Contagious. C) Relocation. D) Hierarchical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stimulus. 57. What is the definition of Migration? A) Physical movement of large groups of people over long distances. B) Physical movement of a family to another part of the country. C) Physical movement of luggages over long distances. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Physical movement of large groups of people over long distances. 58. From largest to smallest the urban hierarchy of the following would go ..... City, Town, ..... , Hamlet A) Suburb. B) County. C) Mega-City. D) Village. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Village. 59. Make correct pairs from the following two columns and select the correct option.Period Approach1. Early colonial period (a) Exploration & Description2. Late 1950's to the late 1960's (b) Regional Analysis3. Later colonial period (c) Aerial Differentiation4. 1930's through the inter-war period (d) Spatial Organization A) 1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (d) 4. (a). B) 1. (a) 2. (d) 3. (b) 4. (c). C) 1. (d) 2. (a) 3. (c) 4. (b). D) 1. (a) 2. (b) 3. (c) 4. (d). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1. (a) 2. (d) 3. (b) 4. (c). 60. GIS would most likely be helpful in solving problems related to ..... A) Navigation of airplanes and ships. B) Identification of ethnic settlement patterns. C) Core-periphery relationships. D) The viability of building houses on hillsides. 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