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 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 Human Geography Nature And Scope Quiz 17 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is NOT an element of culture A) Langauge. B) Religion. C) Clothing. D) Landscape. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Landscape. 2. Which of these countries is the best example of a homogenous nation-state? A) India. B) South Africa. C) United States. D) Germany. E) Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Japan. 3. What does it mean to emigrate? A) To enter a new country. B) To leave your home and live in another place. C) Areas that are lightly populated. D) Areas that are densely populated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To leave your home and live in another place. 4. The biosphere contains all of the earths A) Land forms. B) Water. C) Living things. D) Air. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Living things. 5. What is the name of the national park in Australia that was renamed from Ayers Rock-Mount Olga National Park? A) Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. B) Yosemite National Park. C) Yellowstone National Park. D) Grand Canyon National Park. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. 6. Which of the following would geographers not be interested in observing when looking at a local place? A) The physical terrain. B) The religious breakdown of citizens. C) The different languages that are spoken. D) The demographic breakdown of the entire country. E) The amount of rivers and lakes in the area. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The demographic breakdown of the entire country. 7. Stop and go determinism is also known as? A) Possibilism. B) Determinism. C) Neo-Determinism. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neo-Determinism. 8. When you travel across the U.S. or around the world, you are travelling to a different time zone. Time zones are determined by what type of lines? A) Longitudinal lines. B) Latitudinal lines. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Longitudinal lines. 9. A description of Canada as "north of the United States" is an example of which location. A) Absolute. B) Relative. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relative. 10. Which of the following metaphor is used for storm? A) Face. B) Snout. C) Eye. D) Mouth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eye. 11. Which of the following is a common example of a superimposed boundary? A) Mexican-USA border. B) Canadian-USA border. C) Most state boundaries in Africa. D) The Berlin Wall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Most state boundaries in Africa. 12. Which religion is not monotheistic? A) Hinduism. B) Judaism. C) Christianity. D) Islam. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinduism. 13. Why did farming lead to permanent villages? A) People grew too much food to travel. B) People needed to build storage for crops. C) People needed to stay and tend their crops. D) People had to make pottery to hold fo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People needed to stay and tend their crops. 14. Things that cause people to leave and migrate to a new region A) Push factors. B) Pull factors. C) Population density. D) Migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Push factors. 15. Which of the following is not an element of physical environment? A) Village. B) Landforms. C) Climate. D) Soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Village. 16. What is the term for a region that's defined by how people think about or see it? A) Perceptual region. B) Legal region. C) Formal region. D) Administrative region. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perceptual region. 17. What has been the most long-lasting idea that was learned from the Phoenicians as they traded in the Mediterranean region? A) The alphabet. B) Government. C) Money. D) Cannons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The alphabet. 18. Which of the following is not an example of the human tolls of modern agriculture? A) Land displacement. B) Soil degradation. C) Worker exploitation. D) Exposure to chemicals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soil degradation. 19. True or false:Colonialism is a policy of extending a countries power and influence through diplomacy or military force. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. Which of the following is a result of building sod, log or stilt houses? A) Saving the economy. B) Adapting to the environment. C) Adapting to human needs. D) Destroying resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adapting to the environment. 21. Which is a human feature in New York City? A) I.S. 75. B) Snow in February. C) East River. D) Hudson River. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I.S. 75. 22. Which of the following is not an example of Culture Non-Material: A) Patterns of behavior. B) Religion. C) Craft. D) Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Craft. 23. A geographic area, including both cultural and natural resources and the wildlife or domestic animals therein, associated with a historic event, activity, or person or exhibiting othercultural or aesthetic values. A) Functional region. B) Perceptual region. C) Cultural landscape. D) Free enterprise. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cultural landscape. 24. What type of map shows boundaries and capitals/cities? A) Political map. B) Physical map. C) Absolute map. D) Special Purpose Map. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Political map. 25. A large indefinite area or range of something specified; sphere: A) Locatioin. B) Region. C) Place. D) Formal Region. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Region. 26. At what scale of analysis is it best to answer the following question? How many commuters use public transportation in the city of Chicago? A) Local. B) Global. C) State. D) Regional. E) National. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Local. 27. The movement of people to cities and the growth of cities A) Death rate. B) Green Revolution. C) Rural area. D) Urbanization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Urbanization. 28. A farmer plants corn in a field one year, cotton in the same field the following year, and then corn again. This farmer is practicing ..... A) Subsistence agriculture. B) Commercial farming. C) Crop rotation. D) Slash-and-burn agriculture. E) Shifting cultivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crop rotation. 29. The spread of specialty coffee shops across the United States in the 1990s is an example of A) Hierarchical diffusion. B) Contagious diffusion. C) Stimulus diffusion. D) Periodic movement. E) Relocation diffusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hierarchical diffusion. 30. What is the term for the struggle that all humans feel to see their identity reflected back to them in their landscape? A) Identity struggle. B) Cultural struggle. C) Political struggle. D) Cultural and political work. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cultural and political work. 31. Which is an example of a custom? A) Alice prays before each of her AP Human Geography tests. B) Hindus making a pilgrimage to the Ganges River. C) Lucas and his friends watch cartoons afterschool. D) All Americans going to church on Sunday. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hindus making a pilgrimage to the Ganges River. 32. Population distribution is uneven because people want to live in areas that have A) Rich resources. B) Dry grasslands. C) Extreme climates. D) Thick rain forests. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rich resources. 33. Which term is defined as the total dollar value of all final goods and services produced in a country annually? A) Standard of living. B) Per capita income. C) Gross domestic product. D) Productivity index. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gross domestic product. 34. Much of the border between Canada and the United States could defined as a ..... boundary. A) Geometric. B) Superimposed. C) Relic. D) Consequent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geometric. 35. Population Distribution is A) To leave one's home to live in another place. B) The geographic pattern of where people live on Earth. C) The average number of people living within a square mile or square kilometer. D) To enter and live in a new country. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The geographic pattern of where people live on Earth. 36. Which of the following is an environmental problem for Las Vegas and other cities in the Southwest? A) Temperatures are very hot. B) A lot of mines have closed. C) There is not enough water. D) There are not enough trees for building. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There is not enough water. 37. Defined formally by government or other structures, such as cities, states, and mountain ranges A) Formal region. B) Location. C) Region. D) Place. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Formal region. 38. Which of the following is the best example of a nation-state? A) United States. B) China. C) Japan. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Japan. 39. What was the secret group of routes, safe places, and people that helped enslaved people escape to freedom called? A) Westward Movement. B) The Underground Railroad. C) The Great Migration. D) Orphan Trains. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Underground Railroad. 40. All of the following were reasons for the origin of the Agricultural Revolution EXCEPT? A) The end of the last ice age. B) Redistribution of plants and animals and the end of last ice age. C) Desire of humasn to live in a fixed place. D) A sudden drop in the worlds population. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A sudden drop in the worlds population. 41. What name was given to the line of separation between western and eastern Europe during the Cold War? A) Iron Maiden. B) Iron Hand. C) Iron Curtain. D) The Maginot line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iron Curtain. 42. What are the two major parts of geogrpahy? A) Physical and Human Geography. B) Physical and Natural Geography. C) Maps and Globes. D) Spatial Scales and The Five Themes of Geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Physical and Human Geography. 43. Who proposed the concept of determinism? A) Griffith Taylor. B) Ratzel. C) Paul vidal d la blache. D) Ellen c sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ratzel. 44. Which of the following is not related to geography as a field of study? A) Empirical. B) Historical. C) Integrative. D) Practical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Historical. 45. Which of the following is not true of al-Qaeda? A) Al-Qaeda has been implicated in several bombings since the attack on the United States in 2001. B) Al-Qaeda is a single, non-religious organization. C) Most al-Qaeda cell members have lived in ordinary society, supporting themselves with jobs or crime. D) Al-Qaeda grew out of the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Al-Qaeda is a single, non-religious organization. 46. Which economic system uses a barter system and does not use actual money? A) Traditional. B) Command. C) Market. D) Mixed Market. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Traditional. 47. The interaction between primitive human society and strong forces of nature was termed as environmental determinism. A) Humanism. B) Neo-determinism. C) Possibilism. D) Determinism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Determinism. 48. Group of people usually found in Europe, North Africa, Eastern Africa, Western Africa, Central Asia and South Asia: A) Negroid. B) Austroloid. C) Caucasian. D) Mongoloid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caucasian. 49. Which question would a geographer ask? A) Why have people moved to Michigan?. B) What products are produced in Michigan?. C) Which branch of government makes laws?. D) When did Michigan become a state?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Why have people moved to Michigan?. 50. What does the term 'demographic transition' refer to in human geography? A) The change from rural to urban living. B) The shift from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates. C) The movement of people from one country to another. D) The transition from a monarchy to a democracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The shift from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates. 51. Shows the average of how many people are living per square mile or kilometer A) Population density. B) Population. C) Refugee. D) Migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population density. 52. In human geography, what is a 'megacity'? A) A city with a population over 10 million. B) A city with advanced technology. C) A city with historical significance. D) A city with a large land area. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A city with a population over 10 million. 53. The number of deaths compared to the total number of individuals in a population at a given time A) Population Density. B) Birth Rated. C) Death Rate. D) Population Distribution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Death Rate. 54. Which of the following refers to the size and functional complexity of cities? A) Basic-nonbasic ratio. B) Urban hierarchy. C) Threshold ratio. D) The Sector model. E) Multiplier effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Urban hierarchy. 55. What is the definition of a multination state? 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: D) A state with two or more nations. 56. In Europe, most countries are turning to nuclear power to meet their energy needs. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 57. Which one of the following is not the characteristics to study Geography? A) Empirical. B) Idealistics. C) Integrative. D) Practical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idealistics. 58. Very large cities that grow together are called A) Rural. B) Globalization. C) Dialect. D) Megalopolis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Megalopolis. 59. Fashion spreading from social elites to the rest of society is an example of what type of diffusion. A) Relocation. B) Contagious. C) Hierarchical. D) Stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hierarchical. 60. Areal differentiation postulates the idea regarding ..... A) Imperial and trade interests. B) Elaboration and description of all aspect of a region. C) Identification and uniqueness of a region. 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