Fri. Jan 10th, 2025

Class XII (Fundamentals of Human Geography)

  1. Giving work to an outside agency to improve efficiency and to reduce costs is known as

    Options:
    1. Contract making
    2. Outsourcing
    3. Both A and B
    4. Neither A nor B

    Option: B

  2. When outsourcing involves transferring work to overseas locations, then it is termed as

    Options:
    1. Off - shoring
    2. Business Process Outsourcing
    3. Business Process Outsourcing
    4. Contracting

    Option: A

  3. Which one of the following is a tertiary activity?

    Options:
    1. Farming
    2. Weaving
    3. Trading
    4. Hunting

    Option: C

  4. Which one of the following activities is NOT a secondary sector activity?

    Options:
    1. Iron Smelting
    2. Making garments
    3. Catching fish
    4. Basket Weaving

    Option: C

  5. Which one of the following sectors provides most of the employment in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata?

    Options:
    1. Primary
    2. Quaternary
    3. Secondary
    4. Service

    Option: D

  6. Jobs that involve high degrees and level of innovations are known as:

    Options:
    1. Secondary activities
    2. Quinary activities
    3. Quaternary activities
    4. Primary activities

    Option: B

  7. Which one of the following activities is related to quaternary sector?

    Options:
    1. Manufacturing computers
    2. University teaching
    3. Paper and Raw pulp production
    4. Printing books

    Option: B

  8. Pipelines can carry which of the following materials

    Options:
    1. Petroleum
    2. Petroleum
    3. Ores in liquidified form
    4. All of these

    Option: D

  9. When was the first public railway line opened in the world

    Options:
    1. In 1825
    2. In 1904
    3. In 1853
    4. In 1876

    Option: A

  10. The first public railway line was opened in between

    Options:
    1. St. Pittsburgh to Vladivostok in Russia
    2. Mumbai to Thane in India
    3. Stockton and Darlington in northern England
    4. Perth to Sydney in Australia

    Option: C

  11. Which of the animals is/are used in North America, North Europe and Siberia to draw sledges over snow-covered ground?

    Options:
    1. Horses
    2. Dogs
    3. Reindeer
    4. Both B and C

    Option: D

  12. Which of the following statements about road transport is NOT correct

    Options:
    1. It is the most economical for short distances
    2. During the rainy season these become unmotorable
    3. It offers door-to-door service
    4. It is the cheapest mode of transport for long distances

    Option: D

  13. The world’s total motorable road length is

    Options:
    1. 35 million km
    2. 25 million km
    3. 15 million km
    4. 11 million km

    Option: C

  14. What percent of world’s total motorable road length lies in North America

    Options:
    1. 33 per cent
    2. 12 per cent
    3. 43 per cent
    4. 27per cent

    Option: A

  15. The highest road density is found on which of the following continents

    Options:
    1. Asia
    2. Africa
    3. Europe
    4. North America

    Option: D

  16. Which of the following highways connects Darwin (north coast) and Melbourne via Tennant Creek and Alice Springs in Australia

    Options:
    1. Stuart Highway
    2. Trans-continent
    3. Trans-Siberian
    4. None of the above

    Option: A

  17. Highways in Russia are not as important as railways because of

    Options:
    1. Low population density
    2. Government policies
    3. Vast geographical area
    4. Cold and dry climate

    Option: C

  18. Choose the longest highway of India from the followings

    Options:
    1. NH 7
    2. NH 1
    3. NH 8
    4. NH 10

    Option: A

  19. NH 7 in India connects

    Options:
    1. New Delhi with Kolkata
    2. Kolkata with Mumbai
    3. Chennai with Mumbai
    4. Varanasi with Kanya Kumari

    Option: D

  20. The distance between two track of standard railway gauge is

    Options:
    1. 1.5 m
    2. 1.44 m
    3. 1.75 m
    4. 1.8 m

    Option: B