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Quiz on Geography as a Discipline | Chapter 1 Class 11 NCERT Geography MCQ | Geography as a Discipline [ Unit-I : GEOGRAPHY AS A DISCIPLINE]

  Chapter-1[Geography as a Discipline [ Unit-I: GEOGRAPHY AS A DISCIPLINE]]


1. The term geography was first coined by -----------.

a) Ellen Churchill

b) Richard Hartshorne

c) Eratosthenes

d) Immanuel Kant


Answer. c) Eratosthenes was a Greek scholar( 276 BC to 194 BC), he is considered as the father of geography.


2. Which of the following is not part of Physical Geography?

a) Population Geography

b) Bio-geography

c) Soil geography

d) Oceanography


Answer. a) Population Geography


3. Which of the following geography approach was introduced by Alexander Von Humboldt?

a) Regional Geography

b) Systematic Geography

c) Physical Geography

d) Human Geography


Answer. b) Systematic Geography; Humboldt, a German geographer (1769-1859)


4. Which of the following geography approach was introduced by Karl Ritter?

a) Regional Geography

b) Systematic Geography

c) Physical Geography

d) Human Geography


Answer. a) Regional Geography; Karl Ritter (1779-1859)


5. ---------------- is devoted to the study of landforms, their evolution, and related processes.

a) Geomorphology

b) Climatology

c) Hydrology

d) Soil Geography


Answer. a) Geomorphology


6.  ---------------- is devoted to the study of the structure of the atmosphere and elements of weather and climates.

a) Geomorphology

b) Climatology

c) Hydrology

d) Soil Geography


Answer. b) Climatology


7. --------------- is devoted to studying the processes of soil formation, soil types, fertility status, distribution, and use.

a) Human geography

b) Social and cultural geography

c) Hydrology

d) Soil Geography



Answer. d) Soil Geography


8. Which of the following is not a branch of Human geography?

a) Settlement Geography

b) Economic Geography

c) Historical geography

d) Bio-geography


Answer. d) Bio-geography


9. Which of the following geography provides the interface between physical geography and human geography?

a) Settlement Geography

b) Economic Geography

c) Historical geography

d) Bio-geography


Answer. d) Bio-geography


10. ------------ deals with the scientific study of the habitats characteristic of species.

a) Zoology

b) Ecosystem

c) Environmental Geography

d) Bio-geography


Answer. b) Ecosystem


11. ---------------concerns the world over leading to the realization of environmental problems such as land gradation, pollution, etc.

a) Zoo Geography

b) Ecosystem

c) Environmental Geography

d) Bio-geography


Answer. c) Environmental Geography


12. "Geography is the study of earth's surface", it is the statement of ------------.

a) Ellen Churchill

b) Richard Hartshorne

c) Eratosthenes

d) Hetter


Answer. c) Eratosthenes;


13. Geography is concerned with describing and explaining the areal differentiation of the earth’s surface. It is the statement of --------

a) Ellen Churchill

b) Richard Hartshorne

c) Eratosthenes

d) Hetter


Answer. b) Richard Hartshorne


14. Geography studies the differences of phenomena usually related to different parts of the earth’s surface. It is the statement of -------------.

a) Ellen Churchill

b) Richard Hartshorne

c) Eratosthenes

d) Hetter


Answer. d) Hetter


15. Which one of the following scholars coined the term ‘Geography’?

a) Herodotus 

b) Erathosthenese 

c) Galileo

d) Aristotle


Answer. b) Erathosthenese 


16.  Which one of the following features can be termed a ‘physical feature’?

a) Port 

b) Road

c) Plain

d) Water park


Answer. c) Plain


17. Meteorology is part of ---------

a) Population Geography

b) Soil Geography

c) Climatology

d) Social Geography


Answer. c) Climatology


18. Demography is part of ---------

a) Population Geography

b) Soil Geography

c) Climatology

d) Social Geography


Answer. a) Population Geography


19. Sociology is part of -------------.

a) Population Geography

b) Soil Geography

c) Climatology

d) Social Geography


Answer. d) Social Geography


20. Pedology is part of -------------.

a) Population Geography

b) Soil Geography

c) Climatology

d) Social Geography


Answer. b) Soil Geography


21. Which one of the following questions is related to the cause-effect relationship?

a) Why 

b) Where

c) What

d) When


Answer. a) Why 


22. Which one of the following disciplines attempts temporal synthesis?

a) Sociology 

b) Geography

c) Anthropology

d) History


Answer. d) History


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26 November 2023 at 06:07 ×

yes 22 is wrong its answer is Geography

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