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MCQ TEST- Ch-1

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 46mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is considered the father of human geography

a)

Eratosthenes

b)

Fedric Ratzel

c)

E.cSemple

d)

Vidal de la Blache

2.

Who gave the concept of ‘stop and go determinism’

a)

Griffith Taylor

b)

E.Sample

c)

Paul de la blach

d)

Fedric Ratzel

3.

Who of the following is not a sub field of social geography?

a)

Medical geography

b)

Historical geography

c)

Cultural geography

d)

Military geography

4.

In which period quantitative thought became popular in geographical

a)

1850

b)

Late 1950s

c)

1980

d)

1790

5.

Which school of thought is mainly concerned with social well being of people

a)

Radical

b)

Behavioural

c)

Welfare

d)

Possibilism

6.

Stop and go determinism is also known as

a)

Determinism

b)

Neo determinism

c)

Possibilism

d)

None of the above

7.

which of the following is not an approach of human geography

a)

Radical

b)

Behavioural

c)

Welfare

d)

Explanation and description

8.

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

a)

Areal differentiation

b)

Quantitative revolution

c)

Spatial organisation

d)

Exploration and description

9.

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

a)

Human brotherhood

b)

technology

c)

Environment

d)

human intelligence

10.

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

11.

What is the main characteristics Welfare or humanistic school of thought in human geography?

a)

To explain the basic cause of poverty, deprivation and social inequality.

b)

emphasis on lived experience

c)

Contemporary social problems were related

to the development of capitalism

d)

concerned with the different aspects of social well-being

of the people.

12.

What is the main approaches in Early Colonial

period?

a)

Regional analysis

b)

Exploration and description

c)

Areal differentiation

d)

Spatial organisation

13.

Behavioural school of thought laid great

emphasis on........

a)

lived experience and also on the perception of space by social categories based on ethnicity, race and religion, etc.

b)

These included aspects such

as housing, health and education

c)

Related to the development of capitalism

d)

NONE OF THE ABOVE

14.

What are three core points of definition of human geography given by Ellen. C. Semple?

a)

The unresting man and the stable earth.

b)

The resting man and the unstable earth.

c)

The unresting woman and the unstable earth.

d)

The unresting man and the unstable earth.

15.

Which is not sub-field of social Geography?

a)

Behavioural Geography

b)

Medical Geography

c)

Geography of Leisure

d)

Gender Geography

16.

Which is not field of Human Geography?

a)

Social Geography

b)

Urban Geography

c)

Settlement Geography

d)

Industrial Geography

17.

Which is not field of Human Geography?

a)

Urban Geography

b)

Political Geography

c)

Psephology

d)

Population Geography

18.

What is Human Geography?

a)

Studies physical environment and human.

b)

social and economic differences

between different parts of the world

c)

life forms including human beings

d)

The relationship between the physical/natural

and the human worlds.

19.

Which is not issue of dualism in Human Geography?

a)

law making/theorising (nomothetic) or

descriptive (idiographic)

b)

Phenomena be interpreted theoretically or through historic institutional approach

c)

Phenomena be interpreted in scientific methodological or generalization of information

d)

Approach of the study should be regional or systematic

20.

environmental determinism denotes....

a)

They create possibilities with the resources

b)

The interaction between primitive human society and strong forces of nature

c)

Interrelationships between earth and

human beings.

d)

Neither is there a situation of absolute necessity

nor is there a condition of absolute freedom

21.

Which is not a school of thought in Human Geography?

a)

Radical school of thought

b)

Behavioral School of Thought

c)

Marxian School of Thought

d)

Humanistic School of Thought

22.

Which of the following is not a sub field of social geography?

a)

Medical geography

b)

Historical geography

c)

Cultural geography

d)

Military geography

23.

Fedric Ratzel define geography as...

a)

Relationship between the unresting

man and the unstable earth

b)

Synthetic knowledge of the physical laws

governing our earth and of the relations

c)

Synthetic study

of relationship between human societies and

earth’s surface”.

d)

As a home of mankind in relation to their environment.