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Human Geography: Nature and Scope

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is not correctly matched?

a)

neck of the glacier

b)

face of the earth

c)

mouth of the river

d)

profile of the soil

2.

Who used the terms 'unresting man' and 'unstable earth' to define human geography?

a)

Ratzel

b)

Semple

c)

Blache

d)

Huntington

3.

'Kari has special tyres for the winter and keeps the headlights of her powerful car switched on'. This statement is an example of which of the following concepts?

a)

Environmental Determinism

b)

Possibilism

c)

Environmentalism

d)

Neo Determinism

4.

Which of the following is matched correctly?

a)

laws of friction- discovery of wheel

b)

secrets of DNA- conquer diseases

c)

laws of aerodynamics- develop submarines

d)

laws of ultrasonics- depth of sea

5.

Select the odd set

a)

landform, soil, water, vegetation

b)

houses, villages, cities, farms

c)

rail networks, sea route, roads, ports

d)

humans, birds, animals, insects

6.

Which of the following is not related to geography as a field of study?

a)

Historical

b)

Empirical

c)

Integrative

d)

Practical

7.

Which one of the following is the most important factor to show interrelationship between people and environment?

a)

Human mind

b)

Direct knowledge of people

c)

Technology

d)

Human relationship

8.

'Neither is there a situation of absolute necessity nor is there a condition of absolute freedom' relates to which of the following concepts?

a)

Environmental determinism

b)

Possibilism

c)

Environmentalism

d)

Neo determinism

9.

'The neo-determinism conceptually attempts to create imbalance nullifying the either or dichotomy'.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Vidal de la Blache Supported the idea of ..........................

a)

Possibilism

b)

determinism

c)

Behavioural school

d)

Radical School

11.

Which of the following scholar (geographer) defined geography as "the synthetic study of relationship between human societies and the earth's surface."

a)

Miss Elen Semple

b)

Vidal de la Blache

c)

Fridrich Retzel

d)

Griffith Taylor

12.

The theme of human geography is based on -

a)

the study of nature

b)

the study of human being and their activities

c)

the relationship between man and his natural environment

d)

the study of phenomenon occurred on the surface of the earth

13.

"Human geography is the study of changing relationship between unresting man and unstable earth" the core idea of above mentioned definition is -

a)

Dynamism in the relationship

b)

Synthesis

c)

New conceptions of the interrelationship

d)

Welfare

14.

Areal differentiation postulates the idea regarding....

a)

Imperial and trade interests

b)

Elaboration and description of all aspect of a region

c)

Identification and uniqueness of a region

d)

Use of computers and sophisticated statistical tools

15.

Which of the following approach marked by the use of computers and sophisticated statistical tools..

a)

Areal Differentiation

b)

Regional Analysis

c)

Spatial organisation

d)

Exploration and description

16.

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

17.

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

a)

German

b)

French

c)

Greek

d)

Phoenicians

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

a)

Village

b)

Landforms

c)

Climate

d)

Soil

21.

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

22.

_________ 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

23.

___________ 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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Which of the following is an branch of economic geography.

a)

Geography of leisure

b)

Medical geography

c)

Military geography

d)

Geography of marketing

27.

Historical geography is a sub field of

a)

Urban geography

b)

Social geography

c)

Political geography

d)

Population geography

28.

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

29.

Social deprivation, poverty etc are related with -

a)

Behavioural geography

b)

Humanistic geography

c)

Regional geography

d)

Radical geography

30.

Conceptual difference in Geography is known as-

a)

Areal differentiation

b)

Dualism

c)

Spatial organization

d)

Ideography