This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 12 > Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 Human Geography Nature And Scope – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 Human Geography Nature And Scope Quiz 16 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. Steppes A) An area found far from the ocean in the middle latitudes. It is marked by extreme seasons. B) Paragraph tag. C) CSS property. D) JavaScript function. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An area found far from the ocean in the middle latitudes. It is marked by extreme seasons. 3. The spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior is called ..... A) Acculturation. B) Innovation. C) Cultural hearth. D) Diffusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diffusion. 4. 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. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. Which factors helped the human to conquer nature? A) Intelligence. B) Development of new thoughts. C) Development of technology. D) Discoveries and explorations of new ideas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Development of technology. 8. 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. 9. Laws of physics were often applied to map and analyse human phenomena in which of the following period A) Early colonial period. B) Later colonial period. C) Late 1950s to the late 1960s. D) 1930s through the inter-war period. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Late 1950s to the late 1960s. 10. 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) 9 million. B) 8 million. C) 7.5 million. D) 5 million. E) 3.5 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5 million. 11. 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. 12. Which of the following is an example of a land form? A) Statue. B) Bridge. C) Mountain. D) Coal mine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mountain. 13. In which type of economy do individuals and private groups decide what to produce? A) Socialist economy. B) Mixed economy. C) Communist economy. D) Free enterprise economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free enterprise economy. 14. Which of the following is true about slash-and-burn agriculture in the 21st century? A) It can take decades to replenish the soil with nutrients. B) Farmers stay in one place. C) Rain forests are not as risk. D) Nitrogen is removed from the soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nitrogen is removed from the soil. 15. What type of government is ruled by one person with absolute power? A) Democracy. B) Monarchy. C) Dictatorship. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dictatorship. 16. What physical boundary separates the African states Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda? A) The Nile River. B) Caspian Sea. C) Tigris River. D) Lake Victoria. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lake Victoria. 17. From an economic standpoint, what is the criteria for a material to be considered a natural resource? A) It must be inexhaustable. B) It must be fireproof. C) It must be used to create value. D) It must be destructible. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It must be used to create value. 18. 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. 19. 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. 20. 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. 21. In which period the grand generalisations and the applicability of universal theories to explain the human conditions were questioned. A) Early colonial period. B) Later colonial period. C) Late 1950s to the late 1960s. D) 1990s. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1990s. 22. 'Nomothetic' refers A) Law making. B) Theorising. C) Both (a) and (b). D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Law making. 23. Within the exclusive economic zone, countries have the right to explore for resources up to ..... miles of their shores. A) 12. B) 1200. C) 200. D) 100. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 200. 24. Places that share similar characteristics are called A) Human systems. B) Environments. C) Regions. D) Physical systems. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Regions. 25. The number of babies being born compared to the total number of individuals in a population at a given time A) Death Rate. B) Birth Rate. C) Population Growth. D) Population Distribution. 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