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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
PAPER – II
1. Who is the founder of Possibilism
(a) G. Carter (b) L. Febvre
(c) E.C. Semple (d) Vidal de la Blache
2 . Who was considered as the founder of modern Human Geography
(a) Carl Ritter (b) A.V. Humboldt
(c) F. Ratzel (d) E.C. Semple
3. The philosophies states that people are not just pawns of the natural environment is
(a) Environmentalism (b) Possibilism
(c) Neo-determinism (d) None of the above
4. Which school of thought first developed the idea of possibilism
(a) Russian school (b) German school
(c) British school (d) French school
5. Neo-determinism was put forward by
(a) Carl Ritter (b) F. Ratzel
(c) Griffith Taylor (d) A.V. Humboldt
6. ‘Stop and Go’ determinism is
(a) Environmentalism (b) Possibilism
(c) Neo-determinism (d) None of the above
7. ‘Nature is never more than an adviser’ is the essence of
(a) Environmentalism (b) Possibilism
(c) Neo-determinism (d) None of the above
8. Who quoted ‘ all the inhabitants of hot lands are lazy and timid’
(a) Immanuel Kant (b) Ratzel
(c) E.C. Semple (d) Vidal de la Blach
9. Demographic Transition Theory was put forward by W.S.Thompson & Frank Notestein
10. How many stages described in the Demographic Transition Theory
(a) 5 (b) 4
(c) 3 (d) 2
11. The third stages of Demographic Transition Theory is
(a) Low birth and death rate, and slow population growth
(b) Birth and death rate approximately equal
(c) Declining birth and death rates, and declining population growth
(d) None of these
12. Which of the following continents has the highest growth of population
(a) Africa (b) Asia
(c) S. America (d) N. America
13. Which is not the geographical factors influencing the distribution of population
(a) Landforms (b) Climate
(c) Minerals (d) Soils
14. The change of population expressed in percentage is termed as
(a) Growth rate of population (b) Positive growth of population
(c) Negative growth of population (d) Natural growth of population
15. The population increased by difference between birth and death in a particular region between
two points of time-
(a) Growth rate of population (b) Positive growth of population
(c) Negative growth of population (d) Natural growth of population
16. If the population decreases between two points of time are termed as
(a) Growth rate of population (b) Positive growth of population
(c) Negative growth of population (d) Natural growth of population
17. When the birth rate is more than the death rate between two points of time it is known as
Positive growth of population
18. Population growth is the change of population in particular area between two points of time.
19. The most populous country in the world is
(a) Bangladesh (b) India
(c) Russia (d) China
20. Which of the following demographic parameters represents the population growth rate
(a) Net migration and birth rate
(b) Natural change and net migration
(c) Natural change and crude birth rate
(d) Net migration and fertility rate
21. Which of the following states in India recorded the highest percentage of decadal growth of
population during 2001-2011
(a) Arunachal Pradesh (b) Maharashtra
(c) West Bengal (d) Uttar Pradesh
22. Which of the following countries recorded highest population density as per U.N Demographic
Year Book 2010
(a) Bangladesh (b) India
(c) China (d) Pakistan
23. Ration between the number of births and total population is known as Crude birth rate
24. Which of the following states in India recorded the lowest decadal growth of population during
2001-2011
(a) Sikkim (b) Mizoram
(c) Kerala (d) Arunachal Pradesh
25. Net population change is determined by
(a) Fertility and Migration (b) Fertility and Mortality
(c) Migration and Mortality (d) None of these
26. Demographic transition is a framework that explores the historical sequence of changes in
(a) Fertility and Migration (b) Fertility and Mortality
(c) Mortality and Migration (d) Age structure and sex composition
27. Which one of the following stages of demographic transition model predicts ‘a high birth but
low death rate’
(a) First stage (b) Second stage
(c) Third stage (d) Fourth stage
28. Who define human geography as the ‘study of changing relationship between the unresting man
and the unstable earth’
(a) Ratzel (b) E.C.Semple
(c) E. Huntington (d) Vidal de la Blache
29. ‘Principles de Geographie Humanie’ was written by Vidal de la Blache
30. Who defined human geography as the ‘study of the nature and distribution of the relationship
between geographical environment and human activities and qualities’
(a) Ratzel (b) E.C.Semple
(c) E. Huntington (d) Vidal de la Blache
31. In the 1930s, the discipline of human geography was divided into
(a) Statistical and behavioural geography
(b) Political and social geography
(c) Economic and urban geography
(d) Cultural and economic geography
32. ‘The same environment carries different meanings to people with different ways of living and
culture’. This statement is related to which one of the following concepts
(a) Probabilism (b) Possibilism
(c) Determinism (d) Neo-determinism
33. Which one of the following authors has stated ‘there are no necessities, but everywhere
possibilities’
(a) Febvre (b) Semple
(c) Huntington (d) Vidal de la Blache
34. Vidal de la Blache was associated with which of the following schools of thought
(a) Probabilism (b) Possibilism
(c) Determinism (d) Neo-determinism
35. The School of Possibilism was developed by Vidal de la Blache
36. ‘The principles of human geography’ was authored by
(a) Ratzel (b) E.C.Semple
(c) E. Huntington (d) Vidal de la Blache
37. Who among the following did not support the concept of environmental determinism
(a) Ratzel (b) Davis
(c) E. Huntington (d) None of these
38. Which one of the following is not a supporter of the theory of determinism
(a) Wolfgang Hartake (b) R. Hartshorne
(c) O.H.K Spate (d) All of the a bove
39. Who define Geography as human ecology
(a) Schaefer (b) R. Hartshorne
(c) Richthofen (d) Barrows
40. Who among the following first initiated the concept of 2nddemographic transition
(a) Coleman (b) Fitzgerald
(c) Van de Kaa (d) Lesthaeghe
41. Natural population growth is a function of
(a) Births (b) Deaths
(c) Migration (d) None of these
42. Migration in India, as per 2011 census, is maximum in which of the following streams
(a) Rural to Urban (b) Rural to rural
(c) Urban to rural (d) Urban to urban
43. The sequence of events in Demographic Transition Theory is
(a) High birth rate and high death rate
(b) High birth rate and low death rate
(c) Low birth rate and low death rate
(d) Low birth rate and high death Rate
Codes :
(a) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (b) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(c) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii) (d) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
44. Optimum population theory was propounded by
(a) W. Thompson (b) Edwin Cannon
(c) S. Stouffer (d) Ravenstein
45. The size of population in lower age group is large in countries where
(a) Birth rate is high (b) Birth rate is low
(c) Death rate is low (d) Death rate is high
46. The early geographers believed in the philosophy of
(a) Possibilism (b) Determinism
(c) Probabilism (d) None of the above
47. According to the Census the growth rate of India population during 2001-2011
(a) 15.60٪ (b) 16.88٪
(c) 17.64٪ (d) 18.78٪
48. ‘Environmental Determinism’ maintains
(a) The physical environment determines man’s activities
(b) The economic resources determines man’s cultural activities
(c) The physical environment partially determines man’s social and cultural activities
(d) None of the above
49. Demographic transition model is based on data from the demographic experience of
(a) North Western Europe (b) U.S.A
(c) Southeast Asia (d) South America
50. An increase in urban population takes place at a rate much faster than rural populations because
(a) Urban population has high birth rate
(b) Rural population has high death rate
(c) Urban centres offer large number of jobs
(d) None of these
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