Geography Questions and Answers - Set 6 | Geography Solved Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs)

1 Which of the following occupation is classified as a secondary activity ?

1 Carpenter

2 Coal mixer

3 School teacher

4 Farmer

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Answer:Carpenter

2 Which of the following does not fall under Intensive subsistence rice cultivation ?

1 South East Asia

2 Southern China and Japan

3 Nile valley and delta

4 Coastal and delta areas of India

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Answer: Nile valley and delta

3 Which one of the following group of activities are appropriately labelled for Gold-collar worker ?

1 Increasing the value of commodities by changing their form

2 Financial, health, entertainment, education, information and data processing services; middle management administrative services; government bureaucrats

3 Chief executive officers and other top management executives in both government and private service

4 Exchanging services and ideas by telecommunication and satisfying the needs of people by changing their location

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Answer:Chief executive officers and other top management executives in both government and private service

4 The concept of Lebensraum became popular in the discipline of Political Geography after the publication of :

1 Political Geography : World Economy, Nation - State and Locality

2 Politische Geographic

3 Geographical Pivot of History

4 Making Political Geography

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Answer:Politische Geographic

5 Who propounded the ‘Theory of Heartland’ in Political Geography ?

1 Smith

2 Spykman

3 Mackinder

4 Haushoffer

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Answer:Mackinder

6 Cephalic index , used to classify human races is calculated as :

1 Ratio between the length and breadth of the nose

2 Ratio between the flatness and length of the head

3 Ratio between breadth and length of the head

4 Ratio between the length of the head and weight of the human body

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Answer: Ratio between breadth and length of the head

7 Which of the following statements is not true about a state ?

1 It always has a social or cultural base

2 It has a territorial base

3 It claims internal sovereignty

4 It claims sovereignty in external relations

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Answer: It always has a social or cultural base

8 Who coined the term Geopolitics ?

1 Mackinder

2 Haushoffer

3 Kjellen

4 Spykman

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Answer: Kjellen

9 Which one of the following regions does not constitute the Damodar Valley Region ?

1 Deltaic Plain of West Bengal

2 Deltaic Plain of Padma River

3 Chotanagpur Plateau

4 Palamau Plateau

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Answer:Deltaic Plain of Padma River

10 Which one of the following proposed the definition of regional planning : “ Regional planning is the process of formulating and classifying social objectives in the ordering of activities in supra-urban space” ?

1 Charles L. Leven

2 Antoni Kuklinski

3 H.W. Richardson

4 John Friedman

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