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 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 Human Geography Nature And Scope Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which modern trend is directly responsible for the phenomena of space-time compression? A) Acculturation. B) Globalization. C) Regionalization. D) Fragmentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Globalization. 2. The Berlin Wall, and the related divide between east and west Germany, is an example of ..... A) Relic boundaries. B) Antecedent boundaries. C) Superimposed boundaries. D) Consequent boundaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Relic boundaries. 3. According to the anthropologists there are four identified classification of race in the world, what are these four classifications of races? A) Caucasoid, Mongoloid (Asian), Negroid (Black), Australoid. B) American, Chinese, Black, Russian. C) White, Black, Brown, Red. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Caucasoid, Mongoloid (Asian), Negroid (Black), Australoid. 4. Rapid growth of cities that results in scattered development that increases traffic, drains local resources, and destroys open space is known as A) The multiple nuclei model. B) Urban sprawl. C) Suburbanization. D) Smart growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Urban sprawl. 5. The way people are spread out over an area A) Population distribution. B) "push-pull" theory. C) Population density. D) Urbanization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population distribution. 6. The Himalayas were formed due to A) Accumulation of Loess Deposits. B) Folding of Geosyncline name Tethys. C) Folding of earths crust. D) Faulting of the earths crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Folding of Geosyncline name Tethys. 7. Which of the following is an example of a job in the primary sector, which produces raw materials and basic goods? A) Auto mechanic. B) Farmer. C) Physician. D) Banker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Farmer. 8. What is 'demography' in the context of human geography? A) The study of landforms. B) The study of population characteristics. C) The study of weather patterns. D) The study of cultural traditions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The study of population characteristics. 9. Which period provided impetus to further explorations? A) 1930s through inter war period. B) 1970. C) 1990. D) Colonial period. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Colonial period. 10. This is an idea or innovation that migrates into new areas, leaving behind its origin or source of the cultural trait. A) Hierarchical Diffusion. B) Relocation Diffusion. C) Stimulus Diffusion. D) Contagious Diffusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relocation Diffusion. 11. What type of community has skyscrapers and most people use public transportation or walk? A) Rural. B) Suburbs. C) Urban. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Urban. 12. Which school of thought employed the Marxian theory? A) Welfare school of thought. B) Behavioral school of thought. C) Radical school of thought. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Radical school of thought. 13. Which of the following are all examples of primary economic activities? A) Agriculture, fishing, and mining. B) Agriculture, mining, and manufacturing. C) Mining, manufacturing, and fishing. D) Manufacturing, providing services, and processing information. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agriculture, fishing, and mining. 14. Which of the following is crucial to defining a society's culture? A) Beliefs and values. B) Forms of behavior. C) Social organizations. D) Tools, structures and artifacts. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the above. 15. Today, most of the United States and Canadian population lives in which of the following? A) Farming areas. B) Metropolitan areas. C) Rural nonfarming areas. D) Central cities. E) Small towns. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metropolitan areas. 16. All of the following are correct statements about time zones except ..... A) Local time in neighboring zones are exactly 1 hour different. B) Some areas practice daylight savings in spring and summer. C) China is bigger than USA and has more time zones. D) Time zones are 15 degrees of longitude apart. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) China is bigger than USA and has more time zones. 17. This system of government gives all of the key powers of government to the national government A) Democracy. B) Unitary System. C) Federal System. D) Oligarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unitary System. 18. True or false:Economies of scale are an agreement to simulate international trade. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 19. What literary device is used in the sentence:'The city was a bustling beehive of activity'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. While gentrification can have positive effects, what is a possible negative outcome? A) Gentrification generally leads to counterurbanization. B) Gentrification generally leads to suburbanization. C) Services do not generally reach gentrified communities. D) Higher rent causes displacement of original residents. E) Things in the area look newer and modern. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Higher rent causes displacement of original residents. 21. Which of the following scholar (geographer) defined geography as "the synthetic study of relationship between human societies and the earth's surface." A) Vidal de la Blache. B) Fridrich Retzel. C) Miss Elen Semple. D) Griffith Taylor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fridrich Retzel. 22. Who used the terms 'unresting man' and 'unstable earth' to define human geography? A) Ratzel. B) Blache. C) Semple. D) Huntington. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Semple. 23. Physical geographic features determine where people settle. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 24. Total number of people who live in a place A) Rural. B) Migration. C) Population. D) Push factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population. 25. Death rate means A) Number of births compared to total number of individuals at a given time. B) Number of deaths compared to total number of individuals at a given time. C) The rate of deaths in a community. D) The number of deaths each day. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Number of deaths compared to total number of individuals at a given time. 26. Historical Geography is a subfield of ..... geography? A) Settlement Geography. B) Social Geography. C) Political Geography. D) Economic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Social Geography. 27. The people involved with the Underground Railroad. A) Pioneers. B) African Americans. C) Native Americans. D) Orphans. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) African Americans. 28. Identify one element of non-material culture. A) Churches. B) Clothes. C) Architecture. D) Language. E) Food. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Language. 29. Which term refers to a group of people with a common racial, national, tribal, religious, or culture background? A) Dialect. B) Majority group. C) Ethnic group. D) Minority group. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethnic group. 30. Technology, housing, and transportation are all part of which cultural element? A) Artifacts. B) Arts. C) Language. D) Norms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Artifacts. 31. How big is the World's Population as of March 2020? A) 365.25 Billion. B) 10 Million. C) 7.8 Billion. D) 24 Billion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 7.8 Billion. 32. What do an absolute monarchy, dictatorship, and oligarchy have in common? A) The head of state is chosen by Parliament. B) Their citizens decide public issues for themselves. C) Political power is exercised by representatives elected by the people. D) A single individual or small group exercises control over government. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A single individual or small group exercises control over government. 33. Historical geography is a sub field of A) Political geography. B) Urban geography. C) Social geography. D) Population geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social geography. 34. A ..... is an area of instability between regions with opposing political and cultural values. A) Stateless nation. B) Colony. C) Choke point. D) Shatterbelt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shatterbelt. 35. We use the laws of aerodynamics to develop ..... A) Cars. B) Disease. C) Planes. D) Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Planes. 36. Which of the following is a province in Canada? A) Texas. B) Quebec. C) Florida. D) California. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quebec. 37. A geographical border between two different cultures A) Cultural boundary. B) Metropolitan area. C) Cultural diffusion. D) Population density. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cultural boundary. 38. A state whose territory whose ethnicity has transformed into a nationality is a A) Colony. B) Frontier. C) Nation-state. D) Multinational state. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nation-state. 39. The ..... (mountains) are the result of the collision of the African Plate with the Eurasian Plate. A) The Apennines. B) The Ural Mountains. C) The Alps. D) The Pyrennes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Alps. 40. Before the invention of agriculture all humans obtained food through A) Hunting and gathering. B) Extensive trade. C) Costco. D) 7-11. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hunting and gathering. 41. Learned patterns of behavior shared by a group of people is known as ..... A) Culture. B) Contagious diffusion. C) Region. D) Situation. E) Hierarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Culture. 42. Select the odd set A) Landform, soil, water, vegetation. B) Houses, villages, cities, farms. C) Rail networks, sea route, roads, ports. D) Humans, birds, animals, insects. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rail networks, sea route, roads, ports. 43. Farming for the purpose of sale and profit is A) Commercial Ag. B) Folk culture. C) Pop culture. D) Subsistence Ag. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commercial Ag. 44. The second agricultural revolution coincided with A) The first wave of European migration. B) The Enlightenment. C) The Industrial Revolution. D) Imperialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Industrial Revolution. 45. Why do mountainous areas tend to have low population density? A) Mountainous areas are usually very hot. B) Mountains do not get enough sunlight. C) Mountains are difficult to farm. D) Mountainous areas are far from water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mountains are difficult to farm. 46. Until its demise at the end of the 1980s, the Soviet sphere of influence included which of the following countries? A) Sweden. B) Italy. C) East Germany. D) West Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) East Germany. 47. Which word best completes the sentence:'The ..... of the city was influenced by its geography.' A) Population. B) Architecture. C) Economy. D) Climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Architecture. 48. What was the result of more jobs in manufacturing and services in the early 20th century? A) More land was taken up for farming. B) More people became unemployed. C) More cities (urban centers) were developed. D) The people overthrew the government. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) More cities (urban centers) were developed. 49. The study of inter relationship between human and environment is known as:. A) History. B) Geography. C) Economics. D) Political science. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geography. 50. This religion also has an ethnic group attached to it independent of its belief system A) Judaism. B) Hinduism. C) Islam. D) Christianity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Judaism. 51. India is one of the largest cement producers and ranked ..... in the world with an annual production capacity of 181 million tons. A) First. B) Second. C) Third. D) Four. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Second. 52. The understanding of the secrets of DNA and genetics enabled us to conquer ..... A) Cars. B) Fire. C) Disease. D) Planes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Disease. 53. When a resource is ..... , it means that it can be continuously replaced without there being a decrease in supply. Examples include solar panels and windmills. A) Fossil fuel. B) Gone. C) Sustainable. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sustainable. 54. This refers to the indigenous people of central and southern Africa: A) Austroloid. B) Negroid. C) Mongoloid. D) Caucasian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negroid. 55. Is an economic system where the government owns most of the factors of production and decides the allocation of resources and what products and services will be provided. A) Free Enterprise. B) Socialist Economic System. C) Communist Economic System. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Communist Economic System. 56. Which of the following statement best describes Physical Geography? A) The distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries. B) Branch of geography dealing with how human activity affects or is influenced by the earth's surface. C) Branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes. D) The study of Continents and Oceans. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes. 57. Type of community on the outskirts of a city that looks like a neighborhood A) Urban. B) Suburban. C) Rural. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suburban. 58. Decaying vegetable (plant) matter that can be dug up, cut into blocks, dried and used as fuel for heating A) Taiga. B) Peat. C) Deciduous. D) Coal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peat. 59. Who would be more likely to live in a house made of bricks? A) A nomadic person. B) A settled person. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A settled person. 60. The navigable rivers in Western Europe have historically impacted economic development in the region by- A) Facilitating the movement of goods and people. B) Preventing the advancement of land armies. C) Blocking the spread of epidemic diseases. D) Providing for the irrigation of arid land. 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