Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 Human Geography Nature And Scope Quiz 8 (60 MCQs)

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1. Things that tend to attract people to a new area
2. The term "cultural diffusion" refers to the
3. What was the Fertile Crescent?
4. Which of the following is a characteristic of a 'developed country' in human geography?
5. What form of government does the United States have?
6. The way of life of a group of people who share beliefs, customs, and material items
7. Which are the two hemispheres that India lies in?
8. Jog Falls is formed by which river
9. The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves is known as
10. Human geography is the branch of geography that deals with the study of people and their communities, cultures, economies, and interactions with the environment by studying their relations with and across space and place.
11. What is the reasons why migration has always been a part of U.S. history?
12. Why is the Midwest called the "BreadBasket" ?
13. A geographic factor that contributes to a low population is
14. Which of these does not affect the shape of a population pyramid?
15. Which of the following is a sub field of social geography?
16. How is absolute location found?
17. Choose the Cultural Trait.
18. The former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia can be classified as a
19. What is the term for a way of grouping and classifying similar places?
20. What is a food desert?
21. ..... looks at how people try to earn a living. (industry, jobs, wealth)
22. A ..... is a state that completely surrounds another one.
23. The most important body of water in Southern Europe. Stretches from Spain to Greece and is almost completely surrounded by land.
24. The introduction of social well being school of thought in human geography is known by what name?
25. The transfer from the handy-craft system to machine technology and factories is called:
26. A pattern of settlements in a country such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement. Developed countries tend to conform to this rule, while developing countries tend to have one primate city.
27. Identify the sentence with correct grammar:
28. The most important factor in the interaction between people and environment .....
29. Hunter gathers migration patterns were based upon which of the following?
30. This computer system captures, stores, analyzes, and displays data.
31. What does the renaming of Denali signify?
32. Cutting down trees to clear the land for farming is an example of
33. Is Owensville a rural or urban area?
34. Which historic event caused the greatest change to the settlement patterns in much of Europe?
35. Which of the following would be a push factor, or something that pushes someone out of a place?
36. What is the definitiion of migration?
37. The European river that carries the most traffic is the:
38. What is movement?
39. Culture is defined as the beliefs and actions that describe a group of people's way of life.
40. What is the term for the uneven movement of economic opportunity?
41. Carlos does not understand what the blue lines on his map represent. What should he look at to find the answer?
42. Map that shows specialized information, such as a land-use map, or any other physical or human feature
43. The study of inter relationship between human and environment is?
44. Type of community that looks like a city
45. A monarchy is .....
46. If it's 9 AM in NYC, what time would it be in LA?
47. Who of the following is not a sub field of social geography?
48. People of same race or nationality who share common characteristics such as nationality, ancestry and language:
49. Which of the following describes a dictatorship?
50. Folk songs are more likely than popular songs to
51. The introduction of social wellbeing school of thought in human geography is known as:
52. Why did many people leave Vietnam for the United States?
53. Where did most of the orphans who traveled on the orphan trains end up living?
54. These regions reflect human feelings and attitudes about areas. These are very subjective, meaning that they are based more on opinions than facts.
55. The time when humans first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied on hunting and gathering was the
56. Historically, the growth of North American suburbs was most constrained by
57. According to which approach of human geography does nature gets humanized?
58. Social deprivation, poverty etc are related with-
59. In the early 1900s many people migrated to Highland Park, Michigan to earn $ 5.00 a day in a new industrythat began to thrive. In 2008 the same industry began a rapid decline with some people leaving the state.Which industry was this?
60. Describing evergreen trees that produce cones to hold seeds and that have needles instead of leaves