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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