This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 11 > Class 11 Geography Chapter 9 Human Settlements – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 9 Human Settlements Quiz 5 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which kinds of roads are made underground? A) Subway. B) Metalled roads. C) Highways. D) Expressways. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subway. 2. Priya opens a bakery where she sells cakes and pastries to customers. The activity of selling these items to fulfill people's wants and needs and earning money in return is called a ..... A) Taxation. B) Commodity. C) Resource. D) Service. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Service. 3. Which of the following was an advantage to early humans discovering farming methods? A) Diseases spread from animals to humans. B) Conflict over land. C) More food was grown to support a larger population. D) Droughts would lead to starvation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) More food was grown to support a larger population. 4. Luna is considering moving to an outlying part of a city or town, where it is quieter than the city center but still close to urban amenities. What type of area is Luna looking at? A) Urban. B) Suburban. C) Rural. D) Agricultural. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suburban. 5. ..... settlements are seen along roads, railways, rivers, sea coasts and in foothill regions etc. A) Scattered settlement. B) Nucleated settlement. C) Linear settlement. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Linear settlement. 6. The functional relationship between rural and urban areas is driven by: A) Language and religion. B) Transportation and communication. C) Family ties. D) Population size. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transportation and communication. 7. Name three types of human settlements. A) Industrial, commercial, residential. B) Metropolitan, megalopolis, hamlet. C) Rural, urban, suburban. D) City, town, village. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rural, urban, suburban. 8. If a location is urban, it is ..... A) Outside towns and cities. B) Far away from main centres of population. C) Within towns and cities. D) By a sea or an ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Within towns and cities. 9. Which factor majorly influences settlement patterns in Rajasthan? A) Fertility. B) Water scarcity. C) River valleys. D) Coastal region. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water scarcity. 10. What law banned (stopped) immigration from China between 1882 and the end of WWII? A) Immigration Act of 1917. B) The Gentlemen's Agreement. C) The Chinese Exclusion Act. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Chinese Exclusion Act. 11. Which of the following is a commercial town? A) Bhilai. B) Satna. C) Digboi. D) Roorkee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Satna. 12. ..... settlements are found on the Himalayan slopes A) Nucleated. B) Linear. C) Dispersed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dispersed. 13. Percentage of the world's population living in urban areas A) 50. B) 70. C) 30. D) 40. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 50. 14. Dispur is an example of: A) Smart City. B) Mining Town. C) Administrative Town. D) Religious Town. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Administrative Town. 15. To exchange goods or services. A) Surplus. B) Trade. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trade. 16. Which is the largest type of settlement? A) Hamlet. B) Village. C) City. D) Town. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) City. 17. Settlements Vary from A) From metropolis to river. B) Thin to metropolitan. C) From city to village. D) Hamlet to metropolitan cities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamlet to metropolitan cities. 18. After 1882, where did most European immigrants enter the U.S.? A) Ellis Island. B) Liberty Island. C) Angel Island. D) Long Island. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ellis Island. 19. Which city is an administrative town? A) Guwahati. B) Agra. C) Katni. D) Salem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Guwahati. 20. Medieval towns in India mostly evolved as: A) Religious centers. B) Trade ports. C) Fort towns. D) Industrial hubs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fort towns. 21. What factor is mainly responsible for the development of compact settlements in the Bundelkhand region of central India and in the Nagaland? A) Suitable climate. B) Availability of water. C) Security or defence reasons. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Security or defence reasons. 22. Minimum population density to qualify as urban is: A) 300 per sq.km. B) 500 per sq.km. C) 400 per sq.km. D) 1000 per sq.km. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 400 per sq.km. 23. Outside of an urban area; related to the countryside is described as ..... A) Metrapolitan. B) Urban. C) Industrial. D) Rural. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rural. 24. Each house is located away from the other. A) Scattered settlement. B) Nucleated settlement. C) Linear settlement. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scattered settlement. 25. Match column A with B and choose the correct answer from the options given below:Col A Col BA. Trading ports 1. GurugramB. Principal nodes 2. DurgapurC. Administrative centres 3. Surat D. Satellite towns 4. MumbaiE. Industrial towns 5. Bhubaneshwar A) 3, B. 4, C. 5, D. 1, E. 2. B) 5, B.4, C. 3, D. 2, E. 1. C) 1, B. 2, C. 3, D. 4, E. 5. D) 3, B. 2, C. 1, D. 4, E. 5. 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