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 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 Human Geography Nature And Scope Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Functional Region A) Central area connected to others by transportation, communication, or economic activity. B) Area that shares common human or physical characteristics. C) Subjective image created by people's thoughts and feelings about an area. D) The predominance of Roman Catholicism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Central area connected to others by transportation, communication, or economic activity. 2. What type of region is based on a person's opinions, perceptions, or thoughts about the place? An example of this would be what U.S. states are considered to be part of the "Southeast" . A) Formal Region. B) Functional Region. C) Perceptual Region. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perceptual Region. 3. 'Kari has special tyres for the winter and keeps the headlights of her powerful car switched on'. This statement is an example of which of the following concepts? A) Environmental Determinism. B) Possibilism. C) Environmentalism. D) Neo Determinism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Possibilism. 4. What lines measures at 0 degrees latitude? A) Prime Meridian. B) Equator. C) Longitude. D) Latitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Equator. 5. The cultural landscape of many places in Europe is characterized by- A) Historic cathedrals. B) Shopping malls. C) Bullfighting rings. D) Large national parks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Historic cathedrals. 6. Which one of the following statement does not describe geography? A) An integrative disciple. B) Study of the inter-relationship between humans and the environment. C) Subjected to dualism. D) Not relevant in the present time due to the development of technology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not relevant in the present time due to the development of technology. 7. A group of people with a common racial, national, tribal, or cultural background A) Ethnic Group. B) Culture. C) Religion. D) Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethnic Group. 8. There are plans to make the Green County airport larger but the people living nearby are protesting it. Whatis the most likely reason that people living near the airport would not want to make it larger? A) Water pollution. B) Highway safety. C) Loss of jobs. D) Noise pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Noise pollution. 9. Chinatown in New York City would be an example of what type of diffusion? A) Hierarchical. B) Stimulus. C) Contagious. D) Relocation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Relocation. 10. Technology indicates the level of ..... of society A) Cultural development. B) Economic development. C) Political development. D) Social development. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cultural development. 11. Some features of U.S. material culture such as gas stations, supermarkets, and motels A) Promote a uniform landscape. B) Reflect the preservation of folk culture. C) Provide diversity on the U S landscape. D) Promote diffusion of folk culture. E) Show high regional variation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Promote a uniform landscape. 12. The spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior is called ..... A) Innovation. B) Acculturation. C) Diffusion. D) Cultural hearth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diffusion. 13. Identify which of the following approaches was formulated during the early colonial period in Human geography? A) Exploration and description. B) Regional Analysis. C) Areal Differentiation. D) Spatial Organisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exploration and description. 14. Where does 80 percent of the population of the U.S. live in? A) In Califronia. B) In a city or a nearby suburb. C) In the farms, rural areas. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In a city or a nearby suburb. 15. What human-environment interaction allowed the Egyptians to farm in the desert? A) Yearly flooding of the Nile. B) Pollution in the Nile delta. C) Heavy rainfall every spring. D) Climate change. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yearly flooding of the Nile. 16. An urban center is a large area where there is more possibility for economic growth and an increased population. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. Laws of physics were often applied to map and analyse human phenomena in which of the following period A) Late 1950s to the late 1960s. B) 1930s through the inter-war period. C) Later colonial period. D) Early colonial period. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Late 1950s to the late 1960s. 18. According to the rank-size rule, if the largest city in a country has a population of 10 million, the next largest city will have a population of A) 3.5 million. B) 8 million. C) 9 million. D) 5 million. E) 7.5 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5 million. 19. According to the UN, terrorism is considered to have all but which of the following traits? A) Cause death or bodily harm to civilians or noncombatants. B) Intimidate a population. C) All violent acts committed against another group of people. D) Intended to compel a government or an international organization to do or abstain from doing any act. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All violent acts committed against another group of people. 20. Which of the following is an example of a land form? A) Statue. B) Mountain. C) Bridge. D) Coal mine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mountain. 21. In which type of economy do individuals and private groups decide what to produce? A) Mixed economy. B) Communist economy. C) Free enterprise economy. D) Socialist economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free enterprise economy. 22. Which of the following is true about slash-and-burn agriculture in the 21st century? A) Nitrogen is removed from the soil. B) It can take decades to replenish the soil with nutrients. C) Farmers stay in one place. D) Rain forests are not as risk. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nitrogen is removed from the soil. 23. What physical boundary separates the African states Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda? A) Lake Victoria. B) Tigris River. C) The Nile River. D) Caspian Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lake Victoria. 24. From an economic standpoint, what is the criteria for a material to be considered a natural resource? A) It must be destructible. B) It must be inexhaustable. C) It must be used to create value. D) It must be fireproof. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It must be used to create value. 25. Which of the following is caused by Climate Change? A) Flooding of the coastal regions. B) Increased ice at the North Pole. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flooding of the coastal regions. 26. What is the concept of scale in geography? A) The size of a physical landscape. B) The study of economic opportunities in urban areas. C) The relationship between a place and the rest of the world. D) The process of naming a location. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The relationship between a place and the rest of the world. 27. Name any two branches of economic geography. A) Electoral geography & Military geography. B) Political geography and social geography. C) Soil geography and plants geography. D) Geography of resources & geography of marketing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geography of resources & geography of marketing. 28. In which period the grand generalisations and the applicability of universal theories to explain the human conditions were questioned. A) Later colonial period. B) Late 1950s to the late 1960s. C) Early colonial period. D) 1990s. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1990s. 29. 'Nomothetic' refers A) Law making. B) Theorising. C) Both (a) and (b). D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Law making. 30. Within the exclusive economic zone, countries have the right to explore for resources up to ..... miles of their shores. A) 12. B) 1200. C) 100. D) 200. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 200. 31. Places that share similar characteristics are called A) Physical systems. B) Environments. C) Human systems. D) Regions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Regions. 32. The number of babies being born compared to the total number of individuals in a population at a given time A) Death Rate. B) Population Distribution. C) Population Growth. D) Birth Rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Birth Rate. 33. "Nature provided opportunities and human being make use of these and slowly nature gets humanized and starts bearing the imprints of human endeavor." reflects the concept of:. A) Possibilism. B) Neo-determinism. C) Environmental determinism. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Possibilism. 34. Manufacturing is more important in the U.S. than the Service Industry A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 35. A system in which private individuals have the right to own property and make a profit with limited government interference A) Population pyramid. B) Natural increase. C) Population density. D) Free enterprise. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free enterprise. 36. Many of the boundaries between European states are ..... A) Subsequent boundaries. B) Geometric boundaries. C) Superimposed boundaries. D) Relic boundaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subsequent boundaries. 37. "Human geography is the study of changing relationship between unresting man and unstable earth" the core idea of above mentioned definition is- A) Dynamism in the relationship. B) Welfare. C) New conceptions of the interrelationship. D) Synthesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dynamism in the relationship. 38. After understanding which laws of nature has human developed technology? A) Concept of friction and heat. B) Secrets of DNA. C) Laws of Aerodynamic. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 39. Freedom of Religion A) Push. B) Pull. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pull. 40. The set of beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by a group of people. A) Culture. B) Orbit. C) Language. D) Ethnic Group. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Culture. 41. An area organized into an independent political unit is a A) State. B) Nationality. C) Satellite. D) Colony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) State. 42. Which of the following pairs of agricultural types occupies the largest percentage of the world's total land area? A) Cattle ranching and Mediterranean agriculture. B) Plantation agriculture and specialized horticulture. C) Shifting cultivation and nomadic herding. D) Intensive rice cultivation and subsistence farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shifting cultivation and nomadic herding. 43. In ancient times, this natural feature was used for transportation, agriculture and daily life. A) Rivers. B) Valleys. C) Mountains. D) Seas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rivers. 44. What would be the best example of a region as defined by its physical characteristics? A) A rainforest. B) A country. C) A continent. D) An island. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A rainforest. 45. The agricultural revolution began around? A) 8000 CE. B) 8000 BCE. C) 5000 BCE. D) 10000 BCE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 8000 BCE. 46. WHO GAVE THE CONCEPT OF 'STOP & GO DETERMINISM? A) GRIFITH TAYLOR. B) VIDAL DE LA BLACHE. C) E C SEMPLE. D) RATZEL. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) GRIFITH TAYLOR. 47. What is the study of the way that power shapes the landscape? A) Economic geography. B) Political geography. C) Cultural geography. D) Urban geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Political geography. 48. Which type of agriculture is found primarily in developing countries? A) Plantation. B) Mediterranean. C) Truck farming. D) Livestock ranching. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plantation. 49. People in Michigan wear warm coats, hats, and mittens in winter to fit their environment. What is this an example of? A) Adapting to the environment. B) Movement. C) Modifying the environment. D) A core democratic value. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adapting to the environment. 50. Which continent includes the United States? A) Europe. B) Asia. C) North America. D) South America. E) Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) North America. 51. The attempt by one country to impose political control over another country is called A) Irredentism. B) Colonialism. C) Self-determination. D) Diffusion. E) Sovereignty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Colonialism. 52. In what way might the governments of Germany and Spain address the issue of lower birth rates?F A) Advocating for increased immigration. B) Passing legislation to limit the size of families. C) Providing funding to build more schools. D) Granting money to build daycare facilities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Advocating for increased immigration. 53. According to von Thunen's Model, which agricultural zone is closest to the market? A) Forestry. B) Commercial Grain. C) Dairy Farming. D) Livestock. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dairy Farming. 54. The free run attempted to taken by developed economies A) Afforestation. B) Global warming. C) Green House effect. D) B & C both. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) B & C both. 55. A miner in West Virginia mining coal to sell to the market is considered what type of economic activity? A) Primary. B) Quarternary. C) Secondary. D) Tertiary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary. 56. Which one of the following is a trans himalayan river or Antecedent river A) Sutlej. B) Yamuna. C) Ganga. D) Ghaghara. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sutlej. 57. Which of the following is not a valid dichotomy about the nature of geography? A) Nomothetic Vs Idiographic. B) Law making Vs Descriptive. C) Regional Vs Systematic. D) Artificial Vs Sythetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Artificial Vs Sythetic. 58. Which term describes the spread of cultural elements from one society to another? A) Cultural divergence. B) Cultural assimilation. C) Cultural isolation. D) Cultural diffusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cultural diffusion. 59. What are the 3 factors that have allowed the American Economy to succeed? A) Good trading policies, Technological factories, and labor force. B) Abundance of Natural resources, Skilled labor force, and Stable political System. C) Influx of immigrants, top edge technology, and no government restrictions. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abundance of Natural resources, Skilled labor force, and Stable political System. 60. What is the term for the way that power is distributed across space? A) Political geography. B) Cultural geography. C) Economic geography. D) Urban geography. 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