Fri. Feb 21st, 2025

Class XII (Fundamentals of Human Geography)

  1. Mixed farming is characterised by

    Options:
    1. High capital expenditure on farm machinery and building
    2. Extensive use of chemical fertilisers
    3. Practised in the highly developed parts of the world
    4. All of the these

    Option: D

  2. Following are the characteristics of Dairy Farming

    1. In this type of farming special emphasis is laid on cattle breeding and health  
    2.  It is highly labour intensive    
    3. It is practised mainly near urban and industrial centres

    Which of the above characteristics is/are true?

       

    Options:
    1. Only 1
    2. Only 1 and 2
    3. Only 1 and 3
    4. All of the above

    Option: D

  3. Which of the following regions of commercial dairy farming is the largest

    Options:
    1. North Western Europe
    2. Canada
    3. South Eastern Australia
    4. New Zealand

    Option: A

  4. In which of the following regions the Mediterranean agriculture is not practised

    Options:
    1. Southern California
    2. Central Chile
    3. North Western Europe
    4. South western parts of South Africa

    Option: C

  5. Grape cultivation is known as

    Options:
    1. Sericulture
    2. Viticulture
    3. Floriculture
    4. Horticulture

    Option: B

  6. Viticulture is a speciality of which of the following region

    Options:
    1. North Western Europe
    2. Mediterranean region
    3. South Eastern Australia
    4. New Zealand

    Option: B

  7. Which of the following regions is known for production of citrus fruits

    Options:
    1. South Eastern Australia
    2. New Zealand
    3. North Western Europe
    4. Mediterranean region

    Option: D

  8. The cultivation of crops such as vegetables, fruits and flowers are known as

    Options:
    1. Sericulture
    2. Viticulture
    3. Floriculture
    4. Horticulture

    Option: D

  9. Which of the following European country is specialises in growing flowers and horticultural crops especially tulips

    Options:
    1. France
    2. Germany
    3. Netherlands
    4. Spain

    Option: C

  10. The farming where farmers specialise in vegetables only is known as

    Options:
    1. Truck farming
    2. Horticulture
    3. Pisciculture
    4. Viticulture

    Option: A

  11. Kolkhoz refers to

    Options:
    1. Mixed Farming
    2. Dairy Farming
    3. Collective Farming
    4. Co-operative Farming

    Option: C

  12. Which of the following methods of mining has to be used when the ore occur close to the surface

    Options:
    1. Open-cast mining
    2. Underground mining
    3. Both A and B
    4. Neither A nor B

    Option: A

  13. Which one of the following is not a plantation crop?

    Options:
    1. Coffee
    2. Wheat
    3. Rubber
    4. Sugarcane

    Option: B

  14. In which one of the following countries co-operative farming was the most successful experiment?

    Options:
    1. Russia
    2. India
    3. Denmark
    4. The Netherlands

    Option: C

  15. Growing of flowers is called:

    Options:
    1. Truck farming
    2. Mixed farming
    3. Factory farming
    4. Floriculture

    Option: D

  16. Which one of the following types of cultivation was developed by European colonists?

    Options:
    1. Kolkoz
    2. Mixed farming
    3. Viticulture
    4. Plantation

    Option: D

  17. In which one of the following regions is extensive commercial grain cultivation not practised?

    Options:
    1. American Canadian prairies
    2. Pampas of Argentina
    3. European Steppes
    4. Amazon Basin

    Option: D

  18. In which of the following types of agriculture is the farming of citrus fruit very important?

    Options:
    1. Market gardening
    2. Plantation agriculture
    3. Mediterranean agriculture
    4. Co-operative farming

    Option: C

  19. Which one type of agriculture amongst the following is also called ‘slash and burn agriculture’?

    Options:
    1. Extensive subsistence agriculture
    2. Primitive subsistence agriculture
    3. Extensive commercial grain cultivation
    4. Mixed farming

    Option: B

  20. Which one of the following does not follow monoculture?

    Options:
    1. Dairy farming
    2. Mixed farming
    3. Plantation agriculture
    4. Commercial grain farming

    Option: B