MCQ Questions for Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 Human Geography: Nature and Scope with Answers
Choose the right answer from the four alternatives given below:
Question 1.
Which one of the following statements does not describe Geography?
(A) An integrative discipline.
(B) Study of the inter-relationship between humans and environment.
(C) Subjected to dualism.
(D) Not relevant in the present time due to the development of technology.
Answer
Answer: (D) Not relevant in the present time due to the development of technology.
Question 2.
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
Answer: (D) Ancient epics.
Question 3.
Which one of the following is the most important factor in the interaction between people and the environment?
(A) human intelligence
(B) people’s perception
(C) technology
(D) human brotherhood.
Answer
Answer: (D) Human Brotherhood.
Question 4.
Which one of the following is not an approach in human geography?
(A) Areal differentiation
(B) Spatial organisation
(C) Quantitative revolution
(D) Exploration and description.
Answer
Answer: (D) Exploration and description.
Question 5.
To which country does Ellen C. Semple belong?
(A) U.S.A
(B) France
(C) Germany
(D) England.
Answer
Answer: (A) U.S.A
Question 6.
Which geographer out of the following belongs to France?
(A) Huntigton
(B) Vidal de la Blache
(C) Semple
(D) Trewartha
Answer
Answer: (B) Vidal de la Blache
Question 7.
Which branch of geography does not belong to Human Geography?
(A) Population Geography
(B) Economic Geography
(C) Physical Geography
(D) Social Geography
Answer
Answer: (C) Physical Geography
Question 8.
Which approach was supported by Vidal de la Blache?
(A) Determinism
(B) Possibilism
(C) Humanism
(D) Welfare approach.
Answer
Answer: (B) Possibilism
Question 9.
Which element is not a part of the physical environment?
(A) Climate
(B) Relief
(C) Agriculture
(D) Water
Answer
Answer: (C) Agriculture
Question 10.
Who proposed the concept of Neodeterminism?
(A) Griffith Taylor
(B) Blache
(C) Huntington
(D) Ritter
Answer
Answer: (A) Griffith Taylor
Question 11.
Which subject is called mother discipline?
(A) Geography
(B) Economics
(C) History
(D) Political Science.
Answer
Answer: (A) Geography
Question 12.
Which element is not a part of the cultural environment?
(A) Villages
(B) Towns
(C) Ports
(D) Climate
Answer
Answer: (D) Climate
Question 13.
Which concept helped to discover fire?
(A) Gravity
(B) Friction
(C) DNA
(D) Dynamics
Answer
Answer: (B) Friction
Question 14.
Which element is called ‘Mother Nature’ ?
(A) Physical Environment
(B) Cultural Environment
(C) Political Environment
(D) Industrial Environment
Answer
Answer: (A) Physical Environment
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