Important MCQ of Human Geography: Nature and Scope

Important MCQ of Human Geography: Nature and Scope – Fundamentals of Human Geography is very important unit of Geography / Geology . Here we will discuss some important MCQ questions related to Human Geography: Nature and Scope of fundaments of human geography. These Questions are very important for CUET UG Geography / Geology Exam for class 12 students and also for various other competitive exams such as SSC , Haryana CET , UPSC CSE , Bank exams etc.

Unit I: Human Geography: Nature and Scope

Q1. Who coined the term neo-determinism?

a. Griffith Taylor

b. Ratzel

c. Blache

d. Christaller

Answer: a. Griffith Taylor

Q.2 Which approach of Human Geography was followed in colonial period?

a. Areal differentiation

b. Spatial organization

c. Behavioural

d. Regional

Answer : d. Regional

Q.3 The most important factor in the interaction between people and environment

a. Human intelligence

b. Technology

c. People ‘s perception

d. Human brotherhood

Answer : b. Technology

Q.4 ‘Nomothetic’ refers
a. Law making
b. Theorising
c. Both (a) and (b)
d. None of these

Answer: a. Law making
Explanation:- Nomothetic means law making

Q.5 Idiographic’ denotes
a. Law making
b. Theorising
c. Description
d. All of these

Answer :c. Description
Explanation:- Ideographic means descriptive.

Q.6 Who gave the concept of ‘stop and go determinism’?
a. Griffith Taylor
b. Ratzel
c. E.C Semple
d. Vidal de la Blache

Answer : a.Griffith Taylor

7..Which of the following is not a sub field of social geography
a. Medical geography
b. Historical geography
c. Cultural geography
d. Military geography

Answer: d. Military geography
Explanation:-Military Geography is a subfield of Political Geography.

Q. 8 In which period quantitative thought became popular in geographical studies?
a. 1850
b. 1920
c. 1900
d. Late 1950s

Answer : d. Late 1950s
Explanation:- Quantitative thought became popular in geography after the paper published by I. Burton
‘The Quantitative Revolution and Theoretical Geography ‘in the Canadian Geographer in 1963.

Q.10.Which school of thought is mainly concerned with social well being of people
a. Radical
b. Behavioral
c. Welfare
d. Possibilism

Answer: c. Welfare
Explanation:-Welfare or humanistic school of thought in human geography was mainly concerned with the
different aspects of social well-being of the people. These included aspects such as housing, health and
education. Geographers have already introduced appear as Geography of Social well-being in the Post
Graduate curriculum’.

Q.11.Stop and go determinism is also known as
a. Possibilism
b. Determinism
c. Neo determinism
d. None of the above

Answer: c. Neo determinism
Explanation:- Stop and go determinism is also known as neo-determinism.

Q.12.Which of the following is a sub field of economic geography?
a. Geography of leisure
b. Military geography
c. Historical geography
d. Geography of agriculture

Answer :d. Geography of agriculture
Explanation:- Geography of agriculture is a sub-field of Economic Geography

Q.13.The study of inter relationship between human and environment is
a. History
b. Human Geography
c. Economics
d. Political science

Answer :b. Human Geography
Explanation:- Human Geography is the study of relationship of human and their immediate environment

Q.14 .Who is considered the father of human geography?
a. Eratosthenes
b. Ratzel
c. E.C. Semple
d. Vidal de la Blache

Answer : b. Ratzel

Q.15 .The idea that all the regions were a part of whole i.e., the earth is under which approaches
a. Spatial organization
b. Emergency of humanistic
c. Areal differentiation
d. Regional analysis

Answer : d. Regional analysis
Explanation:-Elaborate description of all aspects of a region were undertaken. The idea was that all the regions
were part of a whole, ie (the earth); so, understanding the parts in totality would lead to an understanding of the
whole.

Q.16 .Naturalisation of humans means
a. Low level of technological development
b. high level of technological development
c. moderate level of technological development
d. None of these

Anwer: a. Low level of technological development
Explanation:- Human beings having low level of technology acts according to the conditions provided by the
nature.

Q.17 .Which subject is called Mother Discipline?
a. Geography
b. Economics
c. History
d. Political Science

Answer: a. Geography
Explanation:- Geography is considered as the mother discipline of all subjects.

Q.18 .Who is not a French geographer out of the following?
a. Blache
b. Bruches
c. Demanzia
d. Ritter

Answer : d. Ritter
Explanation:- Ritter belong to Germany.

Q.19 Which of these scholars defined Human Geography as ‘the synthetic study of relationship between human societies and earth’s surface’?

a.Karl Marx

b.Ratzel

c. Ellen C Semple

d. Paul Vidal de la Blache

Answer : b.Ratzel

Q. 20 Name the school of thought of Human Geography that employed the Marxian theory.

a. Behavioural school of thought

b.Humanistic school of thought

c. Deterministic school of thought

d.Radical school of thought

Answer : d.Radical school of thought

Q.21 Which one of the following is not a source of geographical information?

a. Samples of rock materials from the moon

b. Old maps

c.Traveller’s account

4. Ancient Epics

Answer : 4. Ancient Epics

Q.22 Which element is not a part of the physical environment?

a.Relief

b.Climate

c.Water

d.Agriculture

Answer : d.Agriculture

Q.23 Which one of the following is the most important factor in the interaction between people and the environment?

a.Human brotherhood

b.People’s perception

c.Technology

d.Human intelligence

Answer: a.Human brotherhood

Q.24. Which one of the following is not an area of the sparse population?

a.Plar Regions

b.The Atacama

c.South-East Asia

d.Equatorial Region

Answer: c.South-East Asia

Q.25 Which one of the following is not a fact?

a. Population growth is high in the first stage of demographic transition.

b.Human population increased more than ten times during the past 500 years.

c.It took 100 years for the population to rise from five billion to six billion.

d.Nearly 80 million people are added to the world population each year.

Answer : c.It took 100 years for the population to rise from five billion to six billion.

Q.26. One of these choices is not an approach to Human Geography:

a.Areal Differentiation

b.Regional Analysis

c.Quantitative Revolution

d.Spatial Organization

Answer : c.Quantitative Revolution

Q.27 Name the Tri – Equilibrium factors of human geography

a. Biotic

b. Abiotic

c. All of these

d. Cultural factors

Answer : c. All of these

Q.28 . Who proposed the concept of  Indeterminism?

a. Ritter

b. Griffith Taylor

c. Huntington

d. Blache

Answer : b. Griffith Taylor

Q.29 . Which one of the following is not an approach in human geography?

a. Spatial organization

b. Areal Differentiation

c. Exploration and Description

d. Quantitative revolution

Answer :c. Exploration and Description

Q.30. Which country ranks first in the world in Human Development Index?

a. Iceland

b. Norway

c. Australia

d.Canada

Answer : b. Norway

Q.31 What is the score of the high development index?

a. Above 0.6

b. Above 0.7

c. Above 0.8

d. Above 0.9

Answer: c. Above 0.8

Q.32. Welfare or humanistic school of thought in human geography was mainly concerned with:

a. the different aspects of social well-being of the people

b.the basic cause of poverty,deprivation and social inequality

c.the perception of space by social categories based on ethnicity, race, religion, etc.

d.All of these

Answer: a. the different aspects of social well-being of the people

Q.33 Which one of the following statements does not describe Geography?

a. Study of the inter-relationship between humans and environment

b.An integrative discipline

c.Subjected to dualism

d.Not relevant in the present time due to development of technology

Answer : d.Not relevant in the present time due to development of technology

Q.34 This type of interaction between primitive human society and strong forces of nature was termed as
a. Environmental determinism
b. Possibilism
c. Nomothetic
d.None of the above

Answer a.Environmental determinism.

Q.35 Which of the following is not a field of human geography?

a. Urban geography

b. Population geography

c. Economic geography

d. Rural geography

Answer : d. Rural geography

Q.36 Which one of the following is not an approach in human geography

a. Areal differentiation

b. Spatial organization

c. Quantitative revolution

d. Exploration and description

Answer : d. Exploration and description

Q.37 Which geographer out of the following belongs to France?

a. Huntigton

b.Vidal de la Blache

c. Semple

d.Trewartha

Answer : b.Vidal de la Blache

Q.38 Which country ranks first in the world in Human Development Index?

a. Iceland

b. Norway

c. Australia

d. Canada

Answer: b. Norway