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 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books 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. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 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? A) Diffusion. B) Place. C) Human geography. D) Geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Human geography. 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 A) Quantitative revolution. B) Post modernism. C) Spatial differentiation. D) Areal differntiation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quantitative revolution. 4. A special type of map designed to reveal the nature of local topography is called a A) Peters Projection. B) Contour Map. C) Space Continuum. D) Robinson Projection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Contour Map. 5. The Yangtze River is the world's third-largest river and is used extensively as a trade avenue A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. The vast majority of the world's farmers are in A) Developed countries. B) Developing countries. C) Cooler climates. D) Trout rule. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Developing countries. 7. What is the impact of 'urban sprawl' in human geography? A) Increased agricultural land. B) Decreased traffic congestion. C) Expansion of urban areas into rural regions. D) Improved air quality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expansion of urban areas into rural regions. 8. Which of the following would be a pull factor, or something that pulls someone to a new place? A) A shortage of food. B) Cheap, good farmland. C) Lack of jobs. D) Lack of freedom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cheap, good farmland. 9. (of a country or region) having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs A) Autonomous region. B) Neocolonialism. C) Irredentism. D) Free state. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autonomous region. 10. Separates Great Britain from France. Is a busy route for shipping transportation on it and car and train travel under it A) Westerlies. B) English Channel. C) Rhine River. D) Alpine Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) English Channel. 11. A person who leaves one country and settles in another A) Immigrant. B) Population density. C) Urban. D) Migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Immigrant. 12. Google Earth is an example of what? A) GIS (Geographic Information Systems). B) Map scale. C) GPS (global positioning system). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) GIS (Geographic Information Systems). 13. Telecommunication networks, whose areas of service radiate outward from central nodes best represent which of the following types of culture? A) Functional. B) Folk. C) Formal. D) Vernacular. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Functional. 14. How people, products, information, & ideas go fromone place to another A) Movement. B) Region. C) Longitude. D) Human interaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Movement. 15. The Southeast Asian city model always includes a business sector dominated by businesses from what country? A) India. B) England. C) China. D) Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) China. 16. A set of principles for community planning that focuses on strategies to encourage the development of sustainable, healthy communities. A) Highway Trust Fund. B) Zoning. C) Smart Growth. D) Induced Demand. E) Zoning Ordinances. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Smart Growth. 17. What is the name of the highest point in North America that was known as Mount McKinley and later renamed as Denali? A) Denali. B) Mount Everest. C) Mount McKinley. D) Mount Kilimanjaro. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denali. 18. An example of a centripetal force in politics is A) A terrorist attack on a major city. B) Religious divisions among major regions. C) One region of a country getting preferential treatment over another. D) A paramilitary group specifically targeting an ethnic minority. E) Partisan political debates that upset the balances of power. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A terrorist attack on a major city. 19. What is the most heavily populated region on the planet? A) Sub-Saharan Africa. B) Western Europe. C) Southern Latin America. D) South Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) South Asia. 20. Which of the Indian Island lies between India and Srilanka A) Rameshawaram. B) Elephanta. C) Salsette. D) Nicobar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rameshawaram. 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 A) Agribusiness. B) Vertical integration. C) A subsidy. D) A supply chain. E) An economy of scale. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A subsidy. 22. Problems:not enough work, houses, diseases spread easily and an increased demand for resources A) History. B) Immigrate. C) Export. D) Fast growing population. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fast growing population. 23. How is a megalopolis formed? A) Cities growing and connecting. B) Cities losing jobs. C) Less people moving into an area. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cities growing and connecting. 24. Argentina and Chile previously fought over a physical boundary involving what mountain range? A) Alps Mountains. B) Pyrenees Mountains. C) Andes Mountains. D) Ural Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Andes Mountains. 25. Which human geographic factor has facilitated the growth of the European Union? A) Nationalism. B) Spread of communism. C) Political stability. D) Cultural divergence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Political stability. 26. The average number of people living in a specific geographic area A) Ethnic group. B) Natural increase. C) Population density. D) Population pyramid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population density. 27. Which of the following separates South Asia from the rest of Asia? A) Oceans. B) Mountains. C) Alluvial plain. D) Coast line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mountains. 28. You being able to watch and learn on YouTube is an example of what spatial concept? A) Distance decay. B) Tobler's first law of geography. C) Clustering of information. D) Time-space compression. E) Scale of inquiry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Time-space compression. 29. What type of economic activity is it when a country imports timber and makes different types of wood for construction use? A) Tertiary. B) Primary. C) Secondary. D) Quarternary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Secondary. 30. Native Americans migrated from ..... to ..... A) States in the South to states in the North and Canada. B) Large Cities in the East to small towns in the Midwest. C) States in the South to big cities in the North. D) Eastern U.S. to Western U.S. like Kansas and Oklahoma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eastern U.S. to Western U.S. like Kansas and Oklahoma. 31. A group of people who share similar and distinct physical characteristics. A) Race. B) Population. C) Culture. D) Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Race. 32. What four states does Kurdistan exist within? A) Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Armenia. B) Turkey, Armenia, Iran, and Georgia. C) Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. D) Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. 33. 'Idiographic' denotes A) Law making. B) Theorising. C) Description. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theorising. 34. Ethnic groups are people of the same race or nationality who share common characteristics such as nationality, regional culture, ancestry, and language. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 35. All of the following are examples of Physical characteristics EXCEPT A) Mountains. B) Rivers. C) The Empire State Building. D) Lakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Empire State Building. 36. Things that attract people to migrate to a new region A) Migration. B) Population density. C) Pull factors. D) Push factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pull factors. 37. Today, the greatest number of urban dwellers is found in A) Europe. B) South America. C) Africa. D) North America. E) Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Asia. 38. What is the official language of Canada? A) English. B) French. C) Both English and French. D) Spanish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both English and French. 39. Race is a group of people who do not share similar and distinct physical characteristics. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 40. Natural resources which are found in the ground are called A) Iron and copper. B) Minerals. C) Chemicals. D) Fossils. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Minerals. 41. What is birthrate? A) The number of years it takes a population to double in size. B) The number of deaths comppared to total number of people in a population. C) The number of babies born compared to total number of people in a population. D) To enter and live in a new country. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The number of babies born compared to total number of people in a population. 42. One reason more than 81% of the Earth's population lives in Asia, Europe, and North America A) These continents have large deserts. B) These continents have sources of fresh water. C) These continents have little rainfall. D) These continents are covered by rain forests. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) These continents have sources of fresh water. 43. Which of these are not barriers to migration A) Landforms. B) Political Instability. C) Economic factors. D) Average IQ. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Average IQ. 44. Who has defined Human Geography as the study of relationship between human societies and earth's surface? A) Al Idrisi. B) Ellen C. Semple. C) Blasche. D) Ratzel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ratzel. 45. What is the term for the way that humans build cities? A) Urban geography. B) Economic geography. C) Political geography. D) Cultural geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Urban geography. 46. Which of the following answers below connect with the theory of environmental possibilism? A) Citizens of a settlement have to relocate due to a lack of water. B) Food is located in certain regions based on transportation costs. C) Tariffs put in place by foreign countries hinder economic growth. D) Societies growth rate changes over time as they become more advanced. E) Farmers utilize aqueducts to modify the flow of water to support their crops. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Farmers utilize aqueducts to modify the flow of water to support their crops. 47. Valuing differences in people. A) Culture. B) Secondary Source. C) Immigrate. D) Diversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diversity. 48. Unrestricted low-density development of residential and commercial activities over a large expanse of land is A) New urbanism. B) Edge city. C) Sprawl. D) Smart growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sprawl. 49. Most Latin American cities are focused on a A) Zone of heavy industry. B) Skyscraper office building. C) Squatter settlement. D) Central plaza. E) Government housing project. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Central plaza. 50. What factor would likely encourage a multinational corporation to locate its manufacturing operations in a less developed country? A) Greater ethnic diversity. B) A more educated labor force. C) Stricter workplace safety regulations. D) Lower labor costs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lower labor costs. 51. Urban/Rural planning is learnt in which of the field of Human geography? A) Population Geography. B) Urban Geography. C) Economic Geography. D) Settlement Geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Settlement Geography. 52. Humanisation of nature is also termed as ..... A) Environmental Denterminism. B) Possiblism. C) Neo Determinism. D) Stop and Go Determinism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Possiblism. 53. The use of nuclear power to generate electricity is more common and accepted in Europe than in North America. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 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 A) History. B) Custom. C) Immigrate. D) Religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Custom. 55. Explain the difference between latitude and longitude lines? A) Latitude are vertical and longitude are horitzonal. B) Latitude and longitude are vertical lines. C) Longitude are vertical and latitude are hortizonal. D) Longitude and latitude lines are horizontal lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Longitude are vertical and latitude are hortizonal. 56. What percent of US citizens are farmers? A) 10%. B) 38%. C) 15%. D) 2%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2%. 57. What is the concept that refers to the relationship a place has to the rest of the world? A) Region. B) Toponym. C) Perceptual region. D) Scale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scale. 58. Culture is a set beliefs shared by a group of people A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 59. Immigrate means to ..... A) To enter and live in a new country. B) To leave home and never return. C) To move away and make a new country. D) To leave one's home and live in another place. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To enter and live in a new country. 60. Which form of government gives the most power to ordinary citizens? A) Autocracy. B) Oligarchy. C) Absolute monarchy. D) Representative democracy. 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