CBSE Class 12 Geography Human Geography MCQ Set B

Question. Who proposed the concept of Neo determinism ?
(a) Griffith Taylor
(b) Vidal de la Blache
(c) Huntington
(d) Ritter

Answer : A

Question. Emergence of three new schools of thought made human geography more relevant to socio-political reality in the period-
(a) 1970s
(b) 1980s
(c) 1930s through inter war period
(d) 1990s

Answer : A

Question. Who First Used The Term Geography ?
(a) Huttington
(b) Vidal De La Blache
(c) Eratosthenes
(d) None

Answer : C

Question. Ratzel’s work was based on the concept
(a) Physical environment controlled human activities
(b) There is a dichotomy between physical and cultural aspects of geography
(c) Geography is a scientific discipline
(d) Geography is necessarily descriptive

Answer : A

Question. Who said, “Human geography is the synthetic study of relationship between human societies and earth’s surface.”?
(a) Ratzel
(b) Griffith Taylor
(c) Ellen c. Semple
(d) Paul Vidal de la Blache

Answer : B

Question. Name the school of thought of Human Geography that employed the Marxian theory.
(a) Deterministic school of thought
(b) Behavioural school of thought
(c) Radical school of thought
(d) Humanistic school of thought

Answer : C

Question. In sub-fields of human geography what do we study in Gender geography?
(a) Sociology
(b) Anthropology
(c) Women’s studies
(d) All of the above

Answer : D

Question. Which is not a fact?
(a) Pollution is caused due to industrial development
(b) Ozone layer is depleted due to primitive agriculture
(c) Global warming is due to green house effect
(d) Land has been degraded due to pollution

Answer : B

Question. Which element is not a part of environment?
(a) Climate
(b) Relief
(c) Agriculture
(d) Water

Answer : C

Question. Which school of thought employed Marxian theory?
(a) Behavioural
(b) Humanistic
(c) Radical
(d) Both A & C

Answer : C

Question. Which one of the following is not a source of geographical information?
(a) traveller’s accounts
(b) old maps
(c) samples of rock materials from the moon
(d) ancient epics

Answer : C

Question. Who wrote the five volume book ‘Kosmos’?
(a) Carl Ritter
(b) Pythagoras
(c) Humboldt
(d) Aristotle

Answer : C

Question. Who Said , “Human Geography Is The Synthetic Study Of Relationship Between Human Societies And Earth’s Surface” ?
(a) Ratzel
(b) Griffith Tailor
(c) Ritter
(d) None

Answer : A

Question. Consider the following statements and choose the correct answer.
1. The technological tools and techniques that human beings use to produce and create are extremely important.
2. Technology enables human beings to interact with their physical environment.
Options
(a) Only statement 1 is correct
(b) Only statement 2 is correct
(c) Both the statements are correct and statement 2 correctly explains statement 1
(d) Both the statements are incorrect

Answer : C

Question. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(a) Social Geography – Psychology
(b) Political Geography – Psephology
(c) Population Geography – Resource Economics
(d) Economic Geography – International Trade

Answer : C

Question. Arrange the following approaches of Human Geography as per their period of origin.
1. Possibilism 2. Neo-determinism
3. Environmental determinism 4. Post-modernism
Codes
(a) 1, 2, 3, 4
(b) 4, 3, 2, 1
(c) 3, 1, 2, 4
(d) 3, 4, 2, 1

Answer : C

Question. Arrange the following features of Human Geography as per their period of origin?
1. Emergence of three new schools of thought
2. Use of sophisticated statistical tools
3. Universal theories to explain the human conditions were questioned
4. Elaborate description of all aspects of a region were undertaken
Codes
(a) 1, 2, 3, 4
(b) 2, 3, 4, 1
(c) 4, 2, 1, 3
(d) 1, 4, 2, 3

Answer : C

Question. Which one of the following is not a source of geographical information?
(a) traveller’s accounts
(b) old maps
(c) samples of rock materials from the moon
(d) ancient epics

Answer : C

Question. Who was the first man to discuss about geography?
(a) Aristotle
(b) Pythagoras
(c) Eratosthenes
(d) None of these

Answer : C

Question. Consider the following statements and choose the correct answer.
1. The dichotomy or differences between the physical and human geography is not a very valid one.
2. Nature and human are inseparable elements and they are to be seen as comprehensively.
Options
(a) Only statement 1 is correct
(b) Only statement 2 is correct
(c) Both the statements are correct and statement 2 correctly explains statement 1
(d) Both the statements are incorrect

Answer : C

Question. Consider the following statements and choose the correct answer.
1. Naturalization of humans and humanisation of nature can be studied in Human Geography.
2. Man- environment relationship and interaction can be studied inHumanGeography.
Options
(a) Only statement 1 is correct
(b) Only statement 2 is correct
(c) Both the statements are correct and statement 2 correctly explains statement 1
(d) Both the statements are incorrect

Answer : C

Question. Consider the following statements and choose the correct answer.
1. The understanding of friction and heat helped the humans to discover fire and use it to make their lives easier by cooking food and keeping themselves warm.
2. Technology developed by humans enabled them to overcome the limitations imposed by the natural environment.
Options
(a) Only statement 1 is correct
(b) Only statement 2 is correct
(c) Both the statements are correct and statement 2 correctly explains statement 1
(d) Both the statements are incorrect

Answer : C

Question. Interaction between primitive human society & strong forces of nature can be termed as-
(a) Possibilism
(b) Environmental Determinism
(c) Neo-Determinism
(d) Stop & Go determinism

Answer : B

Question. The distribution of the elements of natural environment is denoted by
(a) Geographical map
(b) Physical map
(c) Topographical map
(d) Hypsometric map

Answer : B

Question. Who invented the Isotherms?
(a) Aristotle
(b) Pythagoras
(c) Homboldt
(d) Herodotus

Answer : C

Question. Who advocated the opposite theory of determinism?
(a) Ptolemy
(b) Vidal de la Blache
(c) Huntington
(d) None of these

Answer : B

Question. General geography was written by
(a) Blanche
(b) Bernhardus Varenius
(c) Ptolemy
(d) None of these

Answer : B

Question.The study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather process and forcasting is called
(a) Meteorology
(b) Biogeography
(c) Glaciology
(d) Hydrology

Answer : A

Question. Which of the following is not a subfield of Social Geography?
(a) Medical Geography
(b) Historical Geography
(c) Military Geography
(d) Cultural Geography

Answer : C

Question. Who wrote ‘Geographia Generalis’?
(a) Herodotus
(b) Ptolemy
(c) Bernhardus Varenius
(d) None of these

Answer : C

Question. Which one of the following is not a source of geographical information?
(a) traveller’s accounts
(b) old maps
(c) samples of rock materials from the moon
(d) ancient epics.

Answer : D

Question. One of these choices is not an approach to Human Geography:
(a) Quantitative Revolution
(b) Areal Differentiation
(c) Regional Analysis
(d) Spatial Organisation

Answer : A

Question. The subject matter of population geography is taken from which of the following areas?
(a) Anthropology
(b) Economics
(c) Demography
(d) Welfare economics

Answer : C

Question. Which of the following periods marked the emergence of spatial organisation approach in Human geography?
(a) Late 1960s to early 1970s
(b) Late 1950s to late 1960s
(c) 1970s
(d) 1990s

Answer : B

Question. Which of the following is the sub-field of Social geography?
(a) Geography of Leisure
(b) Geography of Resources
(c) Geography of Tourism
(d) Geography of Agriculture

Answer : A

Question. Consider the following rivers :
Barak
Lohit
Subansiri
Which of the above flows/flow through Arunachal Pradesh?
(a) 1 and 3 only
(b) 1 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3

Answer : C

Question. Which sub-field of geography is called Demography?
(a) Population Geography
(b) Gender Geography
(c) Rural Geography
(d) Urban Geography

Answer : A

Question. Which one of the following is a key concept in humanistic geography?
(a) Spatial concentration
(b) Development and quality of life
(c) Spatial location
(d) Geographical distribution

Answer : B

Question. Electoral and military geography are subfields of:-
(a) Urban geography
(b) Economic geography
(c) Political geography
(d) Social geography

Answer : C

Question. ‘The Radical School of Geography’was influenced by which of the following?
(a) Gandhian Philosophy
(b) Kant’s Theory
(c) Marxian Theory
(d) None of these

Answer : C

Question. Human beings interact with their physical environment with the help of:
(a) animals
(b) technology
(c) arts
(d) birds

Answer : B

Question. Which of the following best signifies the nature of Human Geography?
(a) It covers all the elements created by men only.
(b) It covers all the elements created by nature only.
(c) It covers all the elements created by both men and nature.
(d) None of the options

Answer : C

Question. Consider the following statements and choose the correct answer.
1. Human geography is considered as a highly inter-disciplinary nature.
2. Human geography develops close linkages with other sister disciplines in social sciences.
Options
(a) Only statement 1 is correct
(b) Only statement 2 is correct
(c) Both statements 1 and 2 are correct
(d) Both statements are incorrect

Answer : C