Practice MCQs | Chapter 1 Human Geography: Nature and Scope

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Human geography studies the relationship between:

A. Atmosphere and biosphere

B. Human societies and earth’s surface

C. Rivers and mountains

D. Trade and industry

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: B

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Who defined human geography as the synthetic study of relationship between human societies and earth’s surface?

A. Ellen Semple

B. Griffith Taylor

C. Ratzel

D. Vidal de la Blache

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: C

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Which geographer emphasized dynamism in the relationship between humans and environment?

A. Ratzel

B. Ellen C. Semple

C. Griffith Taylor

D. Hartshorne

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: B

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“Conception resulting from a more synthetic knowledge of physical laws…” was given by:

A. Paul Vidal de la Blache

B. Ratzel

C. Semple

D. Taylor

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: A

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Human geography studies the interrelationship between:

A. Climate and vegetation only

B. Physical environment and socio-cultural environment

C. Soil and agriculture

D. Population and industries

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: B

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Which of the following is an element of physical environment?

A. Industry

B. Road network

C. Climate

D. Port

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: C

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Which factor plays the most important role in human-environment interaction?

A. Population

B. Technology

C. Trade

D. Politics

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: B

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Environmental determinism suggests that:

A. Humans completely control nature

B. Nature controls human activities

C. Technology is unnecessary

D. Culture is irrelevant

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: B

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Possibilism emphasizes:

A. Complete control by nature

B. Human ability to create possibilities

C. End of environmental influence

D. Political control

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: B

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Who introduced the concept of Neo-determinism?

A. Semple

B. Ratzel

C. Griffith Taylor

D. Vidal de la Blache

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: C

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Neo-determinism is also known as:

A. Environmentalism

B. Stop and Go Determinism

C. Cultural Geography

D. Radical Geography

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: B

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Which concept represents a middle path between determinism and possibilism?

A. Regionalism

B. Neo-determinism

C. Spatial organization

D. Humanism

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: B

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The quantitative revolution in geography occurred mainly during:

A. Early Colonial Period

B. 1930s

C. Late 1950s to Late 1960s

D. 1990s

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: C

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The use of computers and statistical tools became important during:

A. Exploration phase

B. Regional analysis

C. Spatial organization

D. Post-modernism

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: C

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Which school used Marxian theory to explain poverty and inequality?

A. Behavioural School

B. Welfare School

C. Radical School

D. Regional School

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: C

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Behavioural geography focuses on:

A. Capitalism

B. Spatial perception and lived experiences

C. Trade routes

D. Climate

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: B

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Welfare Geography mainly focuses on:

A. Minerals

B. Political systems

C. Housing, health and education

D. Transport

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: C

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Which approach dominated the early colonial period?

A. Regional analysis

B. Spatial organization

C. Exploration and description

D. Post-modernism

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: C

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Regional analysis became important during:

A. Early colonial period

B. Later colonial period

C. 1970s

D. 1990s

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: B

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Post-modernism in geography emerged prominently during:

A. 1930s

B. 1950s

C. 1970s

D. 1990s

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: D

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Geography is described as:

A. Only theoretical

B. Only descriptive

C. Integrative, empirical and practical

D. Mathematical only

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: C

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Geography studies phenomena varying over:

A. Space only

B. Time only

C. Space and time

D. Climate zones only

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: C

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The core concern of geography is:

A. Studying trade only

B. Understanding Earth as home of human beings

C. Studying rocks only

D. Political systems

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: B

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Geography has often been subjected to:

A. Liberalism

B. Dualism

C. Globalization

D. Urbanization

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: B

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Which branch interfaces closely with anthropology?

A. Cultural Geography

B. Medical Geography

C. Electoral Geography

D. Resource Geography

Correct Answer / Reference:

Option: A

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