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Class 12 Human Geography: Nature and Scope worksheet

CBSE Social Science. Determinism, possibilism and neo-determinism, the approaches from exploration to post-modernism, and fields and sub-fields of human geography. Every sheet has 20 questions in three sections and an answer key, and the numbers change every time.

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Sample questions

Real questions from this chapter, as the app sets them. Tap Answer to see the answer and working.

Section A · multiple choice

1.
Which geographer stressed synthesis, seeing human geography as the combined study of human societies and the earth’s surface?
1. Griffith Taylor
2. Mahbub-ul-Haq
3. Ellen C. Semple
4. Ratzel
Answer
(d) Ratzel
2.
Which social science does historical geography connect with most closely?
1. history
2. resource economics
3. sociology
4. tourism and travel management
Answer
(a) history
3.
Which approach marked human geography in the 1970s?
1. regional analysis
2. spatial organisation (the quantitative revolution)
3. exploration and description
4. the humanistic and behavioural schools
Answer
(d) the humanistic and behavioural schools

Section B · short answer

4.
Define human geography in your own words.
Answer
The study of the relationship between people and their physical environment, and of how human activities are spread over the earth’s surface.
5.
Name the social science each sub-field connects with: (a) geography of social well-being (b) settlement geography
Answer
(a) welfare economics (b) urban and rural planning

Section C · long answer

6.
Explain the naturalisation of humans and the humanisation of nature.
Answer
With little technology, people depend on and fear nature (naturalised humans). As technology grows they modify nature, leaving imprints such as farms, cities, ports and roads (humanised nature).

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