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 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 Human Geography Nature And Scope Quiz 16 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When analyzing how folk cultures begin, we can assume that: A) Folk culture would not exist without small scale and local migration. B) Folk culture does not diffuse through relocation diffusion. C) Several elements of folk culture may have multiple, unknown origins. D) Folk culture can only be transmitted orally across time and location. E) Several elements of folk culture tend to replace elements of popular culture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Several elements of folk culture may have multiple, unknown origins. 2. The entire European region is one giant ..... extending off the Eurasian continent A) Archipelago. B) Peninsula. C) Atoll. D) Island. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peninsula. 3. A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water. A) Peninsula. B) Alpine Mountains. C) Fjord. D) Taiga. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peninsula. 4. The study of relation between man and nature- A) Physical Geography. B) Bio Geography. C) Human Geography. D) Population Geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Human Geography. 5. Farming solely for the consumption of food by the farmers family is known as A) Subsistence Agriculture. B) Commercial Agriculture. C) Hunting and gathering. D) Agricultural density. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subsistence Agriculture. 6. Which of the following crops is grown on the sides of terraced hills to allow flowing water to run over the plants? A) Soybeans. B) Taro. C) Wheat. D) Rice. E) Millet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rice. 7. Geography of marketing is sub-field of A) Economic Geography. B) Political Geography. C) Urban Geography. D) Social Geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Economic Geography. 8. Which religion was the first to use the Ten Commandments? A) Islam. B) Hinduism. C) Judaism. D) Christianity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Judaism. 9. What is Zionism? A) A revival of Christianity in the Middle East. B) The study of isolated languages like Icelandic. C) A farming technique that uses less water. D) Belief in the need to create an autonomous Jewish state. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Belief in the need to create an autonomous Jewish state. 10. Slaves were pulled to the north by. A) Farm Land. B) A Chance for a Home and Family. C) Freedom. D) Factory Jobs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Freedom. 11. The first step taken towards the formation of the European Union was the creation of- A) A defensive alliance among the European powers. B) The constitution for a united European parliament system. C) New national boundaries in Europe following the world wars. D) A common market for the coal and steel industries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A common market for the coal and steel industries. 12. Moving to a new country. A) Culture. B) Immigrate. C) Pull Factor. D) Primary Source. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Immigrate. 13. Foreign countries cannot have their military or other ships travel 12 miles of the coast of any other country and countries have access to exclusive economic zone. A) Maritime Law. B) Law of the Sea. C) Foreign Maritime Law. D) Law of the Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Law of the Sea. 14. Goods and services are exchanged (or sold) A) Primary Industry. B) Secondary Industry. C) Tertiary Industry. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tertiary Industry. 15. What are some dictatorships considered as if the government controls everything in the country's society? A) Totalitarianism. B) Absolute Monarch. C) Constitutional Monarchy. D) Absolute Dictatorship. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Totalitarianism. 16. Sustainability is making sure that the planet and its resources can continue to provide life. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. A collection of places with similar features is called a A) Region. B) Location. C) Place. D) Human Environment Interaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Region. 18. Eastern Russia is considered part of South East Asia A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 19. What are lines on a globe drawn in an east-west direction and measured in degrees? A) Longitude. B) Latitude. C) Grid. D) Equator. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Latitude. 20. Globally, the four largest population concentrations are located in A) Europe, North America, and East Asia, Latin America. B) East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Western Africa. C) Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, East Asia, Europe. D) Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia. 21. Which of the following accurately describes the global population growth rate? A) It has been level for the past 50 years. B) It is gradually slowing. C) It has fallen sharply over the past 20 years. D) It is increasing rapidly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is gradually slowing. 22. Nomadic pastoralism is an extensive agricultural system practiced where? A) In the dry regions of Africa and Asia. B) In the tropical regions of Africa and Asia. C) In the hinterlands of Australia. D) In the western coastal regions of Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the dry regions of Africa and Asia. 23. Urbanization means A) Set of beliefs, behaviors and traits. B) The use of natural resources to make money. C) The population of a city. D) When cities grow larger and spread into surrounding areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When cities grow larger and spread into surrounding areas. 24. The human activities create ..... A) Economic landscape. B) Political landscape. C) Cultural landscape. D) Social landscape. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cultural landscape. 25. Which map element identifies what symbols on the map mean? A) Title. B) Compass. C) Legend. D) Scale. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Legend. 26. A metropolitan area is a region that includes a central city and its surrounding suburbs A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 27. A compass rose shows cardinal directions A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 28. Is characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production, which may mean autonomous cooperatives or direct public ownership; wherein production is carried out directly for use. A) Free Enterprise. B) Socialist economic system. C) Communist economic system. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Socialist economic system. 29. By comparing birthrates and death rates demographers figure out A) Where people are likely to move. B) Population density. C) Population growth. D) Why people migrate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population growth. 30. The idea that all the regions were a part of whole i.e., the earth is under which approaches A) Areal differentiation. B) Regional analysis. C) Emergency of humanistic. D) Spatial organization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Regional analysis. 31. Globalization is the process by which ..... A) Geographic regions are created. B) Cultures are created. C) In which nations and cultures become mixed. D) In which nations and cultures become separated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In which nations and cultures become mixed. 32. Which of the following statements is true of Paris and London? A) Although well known, they are relatively small with populations under 1 million each. B) They are unimportant on the global scale. C) They are world cities of cultural and economic significance. D) They have been of global importance since Roman times. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They are world cities of cultural and economic significance. 33. An urban area might turn into a ..... if its key industry is no longer needed and the population moves on in order to seek a livelihood. A) World city. B) Ghost town. C) Suburb. D) Tourist trap. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ghost town. 34. ..... is one example of a push factor causing human migration. A) Family. B) Opportunities. C) Violence. D) School. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Violence. 35. Babies are born and continue to grow until they mature.What does mature means? A) Are ageless. B) Are fully grown. C) Are young. D) Are elderly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are fully grown. 36. What type of location explains the exact location? A) Climate control. B) Elevation. C) Absolute location. D) Relative location. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Absolute location. 37. A source that was created later by someone who didn't experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions you're researching. A) Push Factor. B) Primary Source. C) Diversity. D) Secondary Source. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Secondary Source. 38. After 1990, the United Nations saw a large influx of new members. This was because A) The former Soviet Union fragmented into many smaller nation-states. B) The Ottoman Empire collapsed after WW1. C) South Asia fragmented into smaller states after the Bangladesh Liberation War. D) Colonies in Africa and Asia gained independence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The former Soviet Union fragmented into many smaller nation-states. 39. My house is 4 blocks from Spann Elementary. What type of location is being described? A) Absolute location. B) GPS location. C) Coordinates. D) Relative location. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Relative location. 40. Industries during the 1800s located near the CBD to be close to A) Transportation lines. B) The expanding urban population. C) Affordable land. D) Low-cost storage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transportation lines. 41. Cities grew because of all these except: A) Farming. B) Immgration. C) Jobs. D) Railroads. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Farming. 42. Which of the following is best classified as a centrifugal force? A) National flag. B) State-owned news station. C) Ethnic discrimination. D) National research laboratories. E) Common language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethnic discrimination. 43. Name the model:Due to land value, retail and commerce dominate the central areas, industry dominates beyond the CBD before residential housing takes over on the outskirts. A) The Sector Model. B) Concentric Zone Model. C) Bid-rent. D) British Urban land Use Model. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bid-rent. 44. A related set of cultural traits or a combination of cultural traits is known as this A) Cultural Norm. B) Cultural Complex. C) Cultural Ecology. D) Cultural Adaptation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cultural Complex. 45. Raising your hand to answer a teacher's question would be an example of which cultural element? A) Values. B) Arts. C) Norms. D) Artifacts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Norms. 46. "Brain drain" migration is thought to be the result of A) Social and environmental factors in developing countries. B) The problems people face in source countries, and the allure of a better life. C) Families living in different parts of the world. D) Workers becoming more ambitious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The problems people face in source countries, and the allure of a better life. 47. Which of the following areas has the greatest linguistic fragmentation? A) Korea. B) Scandinavia. C) Caucasus. D) Argentina. E) Quebec. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caucasus. 48. The use of the Euro and the removal of trade barriers in the European Union has created- A) Increased demand for agricultural products. B) A shift from manufacturing jobs to service industries. C) High unemployment in non-EU countries. D) A large united trade zone across Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A large united trade zone across Europe. 49. Synthesis is the keyword in the definition of which geographer A) Ratzel. B) Griffith Taylor. C) Paul Vidal de la Blache. D) Semple. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ratzel. 50. In some parts of the United States, a carbonated drink is called soda; in other parts, it is called pop. What is this regional language difference an example of? A) Ethnic group. B) Dialect. C) Urbanization. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialect. 51. Who is the father of Modern Human Geography? A) Ratzel. B) Eratosthenese. C) Vidal De La Blache. D) Ellen C Semple. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ratzel. 52. A place of settlement, activity, or residence: A) Location. B) Place. C) Formal Region. D) Region. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Location. 53. What is remote sensing? A) Getting information from far away. B) Using software to combine data. C) Tracking changes on Earth's surface. D) Analyzing different types of data. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Getting information from far away. 54. A formal caste system of socioeconomic segregation based on family and occupation was prominent in what country? A) India. B) China. C) Vietnam. D) Egypt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) India. 55. All of the following are reasons for the rise of suburban development in the 1950s EXCEPT A) The building of interstate highways. B) Prefab construction methods. C) The G.I. Bill of Rights. D) Better public transportation. E) The desire for more space. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Better public transportation. 56. Which of the following statements is true about trees? A) Trees are only important because they have cellulose. B) Trees were more important in the past. C) People use trees to make many different products. D) People won't use trees in the future because they will all be gone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People use trees to make many different products. 57. A large cluster of cities with an extremely large population is called a(n) ..... A) Megalopolis. B) Urban area. C) Rural area. D) Slum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Megalopolis. 58. What is the best definition of culture? A) The total population of a particular country. B) The spread of ideas from one region to another. C) All of the beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by a particular group. D) The physical characteristics of a specific population. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of the beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by a particular group. 59. The Gobi Desert is Asia's largest desert A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 60. Which of the following is the highest peak of Satpura Range? A) Mahindragiri. B) Dhupgarh. C) Gurushikhar. D) Panchmarhi. 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