Bihar Board Class 12 Arts Geography · Ch 1: Human Geography: Nature and Scope

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Difficulty: 3 easy · 9 medium · 18 hard

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The first 5 questions of this free test.

1. Q1. Which sequence correctly arranges the broad stages in the approaches of human geography in chronological order?

   • A. Exploration and description → Regional analysis → Spatial organisation → Humanistic and welfare approaches
   • B. Regional analysis → Welfare approaches → Exploration and description → Spatial organisation
   • C. Spatial organisation → Exploration and description → Welfare approaches → Regional analysis
   • D. Welfare approaches → Spatial organisation → Exploration and description → Regional analysis
   Solution

   Human geography moved from exploration, through regional analysis and areal differentiation, to spatial organisation and later humanistic/welfare approaches.

2. Q2. The idea of 'Naturalisation of humans' and 'Humanisation of nature' in human geography mainly conveys which of the following?

   • A. Human beings and nature are mutually interdependent and shape each other
   • B. Nature alone decides human activities permanently
   • C. Humans have no effect on the natural environment
   • D. Only maps can explain the environment
   Solution

   In early stages humans adjusted to nature (naturalisation), and later, with technology, they shaped nature to their needs (humanisation), showing a two-way relationship.

3. Q3. A farmer builds terraces on a steep hill, uses irrigation and grows crops where nature alone would not allow it. This situation best illustrates which school of thought?

   • A. Dualism
   • B. Possibilism
   • C. Environmental determinism
   • D. Stop and go determinism
   Solution

   By modifying nature through skill and technology to create new possibilities, the farmer shows the possibilism viewpoint.

4. Q4. Which one is the 'odd one out' among the following fields of human geography?

   • A. Political geography
   • B. Geomorphology
   • C. Social geography
   • D. Population geography
   Solution

   Geomorphology is a branch of physical geography dealing with landforms, while the others are sub-fields of human geography.

5. Q5. Consider the statements about the development of human geography and choose the correct ones: (1) Welfare approach deals with the quality of life and equality. (2) Behavioural school gives importance to human perception. (3) Areal differentiation was emphasised by Richthofen and Hettner.

   • A. Only 1 and 2 are correct
   • B. Only 1 is correct
   • C. 1, 2 and 3 are correct
   • D. Only 2 and 3 are correct
   Solution

   All three statements correctly describe later approaches and scholars mentioned in the chapter's growth of human geography.

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