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FHG-CH 1 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY NATURE & SCOPE

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is not a valid dichotomy about the nature of geography?

a)

Nomothetic Vs Idiographic

b)

Regional Vs Systematic

c)

Artificial Vs Sythetic

d)

Law making Vs Descriptive

2.

__________ geographers describe the state/country as 'Living organism'.

a)

German

b)

French

c)

Greek

d)

Phoenicians

3.

Who among the following defined human geography as: "Human geography is the synthetic study

of relationship between human societies and

earth’s surface."

a)

Karl Ritter

b)

Paul Vidal De La Blache

c)

Friedrich Ratzel

d)

Lucien Paul Victor Febvre

4.

Human beings interact with their physical

environment with the help of (a)   .

5.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

"In the early stages of their interaction with their

natural environment humans were greatly

influenced by it. They adapted to the dictates

of Nature. This is so because the level of

technology was very low and the stage of

human social development was also primitive."


This type of interaction between primitive

human society and strong forces of nature was

termed as _____________________.

a)

Environmental Determinism

b)

Possiblism

c)

Neo Determinism

d)

Stop and Go Determinism

6.

Low levels of technological development leads to which type of human nature relationship?

a)

Environmental Determinism

b)

Possiblism

c)

Neo Determinism

d)

Stop and Go Determinism

7.

Which of the following is not an element of physical environment?

a)

Village

b)

Landforms

c)

Climate

d)

Soil

8.

The people begin to understand their

environment and the forces of nature with the

passage of time. With social and cultural

development, humans develop better and more

efficient technology. They move from a state of

necessity to a state of freedom. They create

possibilities with the resources obtained from

the environment. The human activities create

cultural landscape. The earlier scholars termed this as ___________________.

a)

Environmental Denterminism

b)

Possiblism

c)

Neo Determinism

d)

Stop and Go Determinism

9.

Naturalisation of humans is also termed as ___________________.

a)

Environmental Denterminism

b)

Possiblism

c)

Neo Determinism

d)

Stop and Go Determinism

10.

Humanisation of nature is also termed as ___________________.

a)

Environmental Denterminism

b)

Possiblism

c)

Neo Determinism

d)

Stop and Go Determinism

11.

Neo Determinism is also termed as ___________________.

a)

Environmental Denterminism

b)

Possiblism

c)

Stop and Go Determinism

12.

The concept of neo determinism was developed by

a)

Griffith Taylor

b)

Paul Videl De La Blache

c)

Ellen Churchill Semple

d)

Richard Hartshone

13.

Concept which reflects a middle path

(Madhyam Marg) between the two ideas of

environmental determinism and possibilism.

a)

Neo Determinism

b)

Neo Possiblism

c)

Areal Differntiation

d)

Quantitative revolution

14.

_________ 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.

a)

Welfare

b)

Humanistic

c)

Radical

d)

Behavioural

15.

___________ school of thought employed

Marxian theory to explain the basic cause

of poverty, deprivation and social inequality

a)

Welfare

b)

Humanistic

c)

Radical

d)

Behavioural

16.

_____________ school of thought laid great

emphasis on lived experience and also on

the perception of space by social categories

based on ethnicity, race and religion, etc.

a)

Welfare

b)

Humanistic

c)

Radical

d)

Behavioural

17.

The broad approach to geography in which the focus is on identifying the uniqueness of any region

and understanding how and why it was different from

others.

a)

Areal Differnetiation

b)

Spatial Organisation

c)

Quantitative revolution

d)

Regional analysis

18.

Marked by the use of computers and sophisticated

statistical tools. Laws of physics were often applied to

map and analyse human phenomena. This phase was

called the _______________. The main objective was

to identify mappable patterns for different human

activities

a)

Areal differntiation

b)

Spatial differentiation

c)

Quantitative revolution

d)

post modernism

19.

Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence of broad stages and thrust of geography.

a)

Exploration-Regional analysis-areal differentiation-spatial organisation-post modernism.

b)

Regional analysis-areal differentiation-post modernism-spatial organisation-exploration.

c)

Area differentiation-spatial analysis-post modernism-regional analysis-exploration.

d)

Post modernism-regional analysis-exploration-areal differentiation-spatial organisation.

20.

Which of the following is an branch of economic geography.

a)

Geography of leisure

b)

Medical geography

c)

Military geography

d)

Geography of marketing

21.

Historical geography is a sub field of

a)

Urban geography

b)

Social geography

c)

Political geography

d)

Population geography

22.

Geography of tourism is a sub field of

a)

Urban geography

b)

Social geography

c)

Economic geography

d)

Population geography

23.

Geography of marketing is a sub field of

a)

Social geography

b)

Urban geography

c)

Economic geography

d)

Political geography

24.

Which of the following sub field of human geography is related to Psephology?

a)

Electoral geography

b)

Military geography

c)

Historical geography

d)

Medical geography