Thu. Jan 9th, 2025

Class XII (Fundamentals of Human Geography)

  1. Geography as a field of study is

    Options:
    1. Integrative
    2. Empirical
    3. Practical
    4. All of the above

    Option: D

  2. Who described the ‘state/country’ as a ‘living organism’?

    Options:
    1. American geographers
    2. German geographers
    3. French geographers
    4. Arab geographers

    Option: B

  3. Which of the followings have often been described as arteries of circulation?

    Options:
    1. Transport Network
    2. Communication Means
    3. Industry
    4. Minerals

    Option: A

  4. Who described Human geography as the synthetic study of relationship between human societies and earth’s surface?

    Options:
    1. Ellen C. Semple
    2. Ratzel
    3. Paul Vidal de la Blache
    4. Griffith Taylor

    Option: B

  5. Who defined Human geography as the study of changing relationship between the unresting man and the unstable earth?

    Options:
    1. Paul Vidal de la Blache
    2. Griffith Taylor
    3. Ellen C. Semple
    4. Ratzel

    Option: C

  6. Which of the following elements is not created by human beings

    Options:
    1. Ports
    2. Villages
    3. Farms
    4. Rivers

    Option: D

  7. Which of the following statements about Environmental determinism is not correct

    Options:
    1. The stage of human social development was primitive.
    2. Human is treated as a passive agent and environment as an active agent.
    3. Human was afraid of and worshipped nature
    4. Humanised Nature

    Option: D

  8. Nature provides opportunities and human being make use of these and slowly nature gets humanised. The above statement is related to which of the following concepts

    Options:
    1. Environmental determinism
    2. Possibilism
    3. Neo determinism
    4. Dualism

    Option: B

  9. Which of the following scholars introduced the concept of Neo determinism?

    Options:
    1. Griffith Taylor
    2. Blache
    3. Ellen C. Semple
    4. Ratzel

    Option: A

  10. Neo determinism is also known as

    Options:
    1. Dualism
    2. Stop and go determinism
    3. Environmental determinism
    4. None of these

    Option: B

  11. Which of the following concepts shows that neither is there a situation of absolute necessity nor is there a condition of absolute freedom?

    Options:
    1. Environmental determinism
    2. Possibilism
    3. Neo determinism
    4. Dualism

    Option: C

  12. Which of the following periods witnessed attempts of explorations in Europe?

    Options:
    1. The late fourteenth century
    2. The Sixteenth century
    3. The Eighteenth century
    4. The late fifteenth century

    Option: D

  13. Which of the following school of thoughts was mainly concerned with the different aspects of social well-being of the people such as housing, health and education?

    Options:
    1. Welfare school of thought
    2. Radical school of thought
    3. Behavioural school of thought
    4. None of these

    Option: A

  14. Which of the following school of thoughts explain the basic cause of poverty, deprivation and social inequality

    Options:
    1. Behavioural school of thought
    2. Humanistic school of thought
    3. Radical school of thought
    4. None of these

    Option: C

  15. Which of the following periods is known as the period of Exploration and description?

    Options:
    1. 1970s
    2. Late 1950s to the late 1960s
    3. Later Colonial period
    4. Early Colonial period

    Option: D

  16. Which of the following periods is known as the phase of quantitative revolution?

    Options:
    1. Late 1950s to the late 1960s
    2. Later Colonial period
    3. 1930s through the inter-War period
    4. 1990s

    Option: A

  17. Identifying the uniqueness of any region was the characteristic of which of the following approaches

    Options:
    1. Exploration and description
    2. Regional analysis
    3. Spatial organisation
    4. Areal differentiation

    Option: D

  18. Which one of the following statements does not describe geography?

    Options:
    1. An integrative discipline
    2. Study of the inter-relationship between humans and environment
    3. Subjected to dualism
    4. Not relevant in the present time due to the development of technology

    Option: D

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

    Options:
    1. Traveller's accounts
    2. Old maps
    3. Samples of rock materials from the moon
    4. Ancient epics

    Option: C

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

    Options:
    1. Human intelligence
    2. Technology
    3. People's perception
    4. Human brotherhood

    Option: D