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WorksheetsHuman Geography: Nature and Scope
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 30mins
Which of the following is not correctly matched?
neck of the glacier
face of the earth
mouth of the river
profile of the soil
Who used the terms 'unresting man' and 'unstable earth' to define human geography?
Ratzel
Semple
Blache
Huntington
'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?
Environmental Determinism
Possibilism
Environmentalism
Neo Determinism
Which of the following is matched correctly?
laws of friction- discovery of wheel
secrets of DNA- conquer diseases
laws of aerodynamics- develop submarines
laws of ultrasonics- depth of sea
Select the odd set
landform, soil, water, vegetation
houses, villages, cities, farms
rail networks, sea route, roads, ports
humans, birds, animals, insects
Which of the following is not related to geography as a field of study?
Historical
Empirical
Integrative
Practical
Which one of the following is the most important factor to show interrelationship between people and environment?
Human mind
Direct knowledge of people
Technology
Human relationship
'Neither is there a situation of absolute necessity nor is there a condition of absolute freedom' relates to which of the following concepts?
Environmental determinism
Possibilism
Environmentalism
Neo determinism
'The neo-determinism conceptually attempts to create imbalance nullifying the either or dichotomy'.
True
False
Vidal de la Blache Supported the idea of ..........................
Possibilism
determinism
Behavioural school
Radical School
Which of the following scholar (geographer) defined geography as "the synthetic study of relationship between human societies and the earth's surface."
Miss Elen Semple
Vidal de la Blache
Fridrich Retzel
Griffith Taylor
The theme of human geography is based on -
the study of nature
the study of human being and their activities
the relationship between man and his natural environment
the study of phenomenon occurred on the surface of the earth
"Human geography is the study of changing relationship between unresting man and unstable earth" the core idea of above mentioned definition is -
Dynamism in the relationship
Synthesis
New conceptions of the interrelationship
Welfare
Areal differentiation postulates the idea regarding....
Imperial and trade interests
Elaboration and description of all aspect of a region
Identification and uniqueness of a region
Use of computers and sophisticated statistical tools
Which of the following approach marked by the use of computers and sophisticated statistical tools..
Areal Differentiation
Regional Analysis
Spatial organisation
Exploration and description
Which of the following is not a valid dichotomy about the nature of geography?
Nomothetic Vs Idiographic
Regional Vs Systematic
Artificial Vs Sythetic
Law making Vs Descriptive
__________ geographers describe the state/country as 'Living organism'.
German
French
Greek
Phoenicians
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 _____________________.
Environmental Determinism
Possiblism
Neo Determinism
Stop and Go Determinism
Low levels of technological development leads to which type of human nature relationship?
Environmental Determinism
Possiblism
Neo Determinism
Stop and Go Determinism
Which of the following is not an element of physical environment?
Village
Landforms
Climate
Soil
Concept which reflects a middle path
(Madhyam Marg) between the two ideas of
environmental determinism and possibilism.
Neo Determinism
Neo Possiblism
Areal Differntiation
Quantitative revolution
_________ 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.
Welfare
Humanistic
Radical
Behavioural
___________ school of thought employed
Marxian theory to explain the basic cause
of poverty, deprivation and social inequality
Welfare
Humanistic
Radical
Behavioural
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.
Areal Differnetiation
Spatial Organisation
Quantitative revolution
Regional analysis
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
Areal differntiation
Spatial differentiation
Quantitative revolution
post modernism
Which of the following is an branch of economic geography.
Geography of leisure
Medical geography
Military geography
Geography of marketing
Historical geography is a sub field of
Urban geography
Social geography
Political geography
Population geography
Which of the following sub field of human geography is related to Psephology?
Electoral geography
Military geography
Historical geography
Medical geography
Social deprivation, poverty etc are related with -
Behavioural geography
Humanistic geography
Regional geography
Radical geography
Conceptual difference in Geography is known as-
Areal differentiation
Dualism
Spatial organization
Ideography
