Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 - Nature and Scope MCQs

Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 – Nature and Scope MCQ Question Answers for CUET 2024

1. Which of these scholars defined Human Geography as ‘the synthetic study of relationship between human societies and earth’s surface’?

Paul Vidal de la Blache

Ratzel

Karl Marx

Ellen C. Semple

2. Which element is called ‘Mother Nature’ ?

Cultural Environemt

Industrial Environemt

Physical Environment

Political Environemt

3. Which is not a key area of human development?

Education

Good Health

Industrial Development

Access to Resources

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

Human intelligence

Human brotherhood

Technology

People's perception

5. Main feature of Early Colonial period is:

phase of the quantitative revolution

grand generalisations and the applicability of universal theories

identifying the uniqueness of any region

the discovery and exploration of new areas

6. What is the present growth rate of population in the world?

1.00%

1.20%

1.40%

1.60%

7. Who was the founder of neo-determinism?

Mackinder

None of these

Blache

Both

8. Name the school of thought of Human Geography that employed the Marxian theory.

Deterministic school of thought

Radical school of thought

Humanistic school of thought

Behavioural school of thought

9. Which of the following is not a subfield of Social Geography?

Cultural Geography

Medical Geography

Historical Geography

Military Geography

10. Which attribute does not distinguish people?

Occupation

Industries

Age

Sex

11. Which one of the following scholars introduced the concept of Human Development?

Ellen C. Sein pie

Dr. Mahabub-Ul-Haq

Ratzel

Prof. Amrtya Sen

12. The lowest sex ratio is found in:

Kuwait

Egypt

Iran

Qatar

13. To which country does Ellen C. Semple belong?

U.S.A

France

Germany

England

14. Which of these factors is the most important consideration for the relationship between humans and the environment?

Human brotherhood

People's perception

Human intelligence

Technology

15. Which one of the following is not an area of the sparse population?

Plar Regions

The Atacama

Equatorial Region

South-East Asia

16. Who is not a French geographer out of the following?

Bruches

Demanzia

Blache

Ritter

17. Which of these is not a characteristic of the study of Geography?

Practical

Integrative

Idealistic

Empirical

18. Which element is not a part of the cultural environment?

Towns

Villages

Climate

Ports

19. What is the score of the high development index?

Above 0.9

Above 0.6

Above 0.8

Above 0.7

20. In which continent, low sex ratio is found:

Europe

Australia

North America

Asia

21. Who coined determinism?

Paul Vidal de la Blache

Ellen C. Semple

Griffith Taylor

Ratzel

22. Which one of the following statements does not describe Geography?

Subjected to dualism

Not relevant in the presnt time due to development of technology

Study of the inter-relationship between humans and environment

An integrative discipline

23. Which one of the following has caused the sex ratio of the United Arab Emirates to below.

High birth rate of males

Low birth rate of females

High out-migration of females

Selective migration of working population

24. Which approach was supported by Vidal de la Blache?

Determinism

Humanism

Welfare approach

Possibilism

25. Welfare or humanistic school of thought in human geography was mainly concerned with:

the perception of space by social categories based on ethnicity, race, religion, etc.

the different aspects of social well-being of the people

All of these

the basic cause of poverty,deprivation and social inequality

26. Which is the most populated country?

India

Germany

China

Russia

27. Name the Tri – Equilibrium factors of human geography

Biotic

Cultural factors

All of these

Abiotic

28. Who was the Father of modern human geography?

Ratzel

None of these

Humboldt

Ritter

29. Which geographer out of the following belongs to France?

Huntigton

Semple

Vidalde la Blache

Trewartha

30. Who proposed the concept of Indeterminism?

Ritter

Blache

Griffith Taylor

Huntington

31. Which concept helped to discover fire?

Dynamics

DNA

Gravity

Friction

32. Which country ranks first in the world in Human Development Index?

Iceland

Australia

Norway

Canada

33. Who proposed the concept of Neodeterminism?

Ritter

Blache

Huntington

Griffith Taylor

34. In how many countries, unfavorable sex ratio is found?

35. Expanding population Pyramid Shows.

Wide Base

Developed Economy

Uniform width

Narrow Base

36. What is the average density of the world population? (per sq. km.)

37. Which element is not a part of the physical environment?

Climate

Agriculture

Relief

Water

38. Identify the country with the highest sex ratio in the world?

Lativa

Japan

United Arab Emirates

France

39. Who first used the term Geography?

Hecataeus

Eratosthenes

Herodotus

Hipparchus

40. Which branch of geography does not belong to Human Geography?

Social Geography

Economic Geography

Physical Geography

Population Geography

41. One of these choices is not an approach to Human Geography:

Areal Differentiation

Regional Analysis

Spatial Organization

Quantitative Revolution

42. How many countries have a high level of human development?

43. Which continent has the highest growth rate of the population?

Asia

Africa

Europe

Australia

44. Which one of the following is not a fact?

Population growth is high in the first stage of demographic transition.

Human population increased more than ten times during the past 500 years

Nearly 80 million people are added to the world population each year

It took 100 years for the population to rise from five billion to six billion

45. Which one of the following is not a source of geographical information?

Ancient Epics

Samples of rock materials from the moon

Traveller's account

Old maps

46. The ten most populated countries have a world population:

70%

50%

60%

80%

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

Spatial organization

Areal Differentiation

Quantitative revolution

Exploration and Description

48. The two main branches of geography are

Physical and Urban

Political and Historical

Economic and Social

Physical and Human

49. Which subject is called mother discipline?

Political Science

History

Economics

Geography

50. “Human geography is the study of mutually changeable relations of active human and unstable earth.” Who gave this definition?

Blache

Ratzel

Carl Sauer

Ellen Semple

Also See :

Class 12 Geography (Fundamentals Of Human Geography)

Geography Ch 2 – Population – distribution, density and growth
Geography Ch 4 – Human Development
Geography Ch 5- Primary Activities
Geography Ch 6 – Secondary Activity
Geography Ch 7 – Tertiary and Quatenary activities
Geography Ch 8 – Transport
Geography Ch 9 – International Trade
Geography Ch 10 – Human Settelment

Class 12 Geography (India People And Economy)

Geography Ch 3 – Population Composition
Geography – Migration MCQs
Geography – Land Resources MCQs
Geography – Water Resources MCQs
Geography – Industries MCQs
Geography – Planning in India MCQs
Geography – Environmental Pollution MCQs
Geography – Geography – Geographical Perspective on selected issues and problems MCQs
Geography – Conservation Industries MCQs

Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 – Nature and Scope MCQ Question and Answers – MCQs for Practice

Class 12 Geography Chapter 1 – Nature and Scope MCQ Question Answers for CUET 2024

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