Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 Human Geography Nature And Scope Quiz 9 (60 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

Select an option to see the correct answer instantly.

1. Cultural regions can be large or relatively small.
2. How people make places, how we organize space and society, how we interact with each other in places and across space is known as?
3. Marked by the use of computers and sophisticatedstatistical tools. Laws of physics were often applied tomap and analyse human phenomena. This phase wascalled the ..... The main objective wasto identify mappable patterns for different humanactivities
4. A special type of map designed to reveal the nature of local topography is called a
5. The Yangtze River is the world's third-largest river and is used extensively as a trade avenue
6. The vast majority of the world's farmers are in
7. What is the impact of 'urban sprawl' in human geography?
8. Which of the following would be a pull factor, or something that pulls someone to a new place?
9. (of a country or region) having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs
10. Separates Great Britain from France. Is a busy route for shipping transportation on it and car and train travel under it
11. A person who leaves one country and settles in another
12. Google Earth is an example of what?
13. Telecommunication networks, whose areas of service radiate outward from central nodes best represent which of the following types of culture?
14. How people, products, information, & ideas go fromone place to another
15. The Southeast Asian city model always includes a business sector dominated by businesses from what country?
16. A set of principles for community planning that focuses on strategies to encourage the development of sustainable, healthy communities.
17. What is the name of the highest point in North America that was known as Mount McKinley and later renamed as Denali?
18. An example of a centripetal force in politics is
19. What is the most heavily populated region on the planet?
20. Which of the Indian Island lies between India and Srilanka
21. The building of the Erie Canal in the 1820s to connect New York with the midwest was paid for by the state of New York. It is an example of
22. Problems:not enough work, houses, diseases spread easily and an increased demand for resources
23. How is a megalopolis formed?
24. Argentina and Chile previously fought over a physical boundary involving what mountain range?
25. Which human geographic factor has facilitated the growth of the European Union?
26. The average number of people living in a specific geographic area
27. Which of the following separates South Asia from the rest of Asia?
28. You being able to watch and learn on YouTube is an example of what spatial concept?
29. What type of economic activity is it when a country imports timber and makes different types of wood for construction use?
30. Native Americans migrated from ..... to .....
31. A group of people who share similar and distinct physical characteristics.
32. What four states does Kurdistan exist within?
33. 'Idiographic' denotes
34. Ethnic groups are people of the same race or nationality who share common characteristics such as nationality, regional culture, ancestry, and language.
35. All of the following are examples of Physical characteristics EXCEPT
36. Things that attract people to migrate to a new region
37. Today, the greatest number of urban dwellers is found in
38. What is the official language of Canada?
39. Race is a group of people who do not share similar and distinct physical characteristics.
40. Natural resources which are found in the ground are called
41. What is birthrate?
42. One reason more than 81% of the Earth's population lives in Asia, Europe, and North America
43. Which of these are not barriers to migration
44. Who has defined Human Geography as the study of relationship between human societies and earth's surface?
45. What is the term for the way that humans build cities?
46. Which of the following answers below connect with the theory of environmental possibilism?
47. Valuing differences in people.
48. Unrestricted low-density development of residential and commercial activities over a large expanse of land is
49. Most Latin American cities are focused on a
50. What factor would likely encourage a multinational corporation to locate its manufacturing operations in a less developed country?
51. Urban/Rural planning is learnt in which of the field of Human geography?
52. Humanisation of nature is also termed as .....
53. The use of nuclear power to generate electricity is more common and accepted in Europe than in North America.
54. An action or way of behaving that is usual and traditional among the people in a particular group or placeexample:greeting with a handshake
55. Explain the difference between latitude and longitude lines?
56. What percent of US citizens are farmers?
57. What is the concept that refers to the relationship a place has to the rest of the world?
58. Culture is a set beliefs shared by a group of people
59. Immigrate means to .....
60. Which form of government gives the most power to ordinary citizens?