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World Geography Practice Test: Human Geography
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Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography that studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment, examples of which is studied in schools are urban sprawl, and urban redevelopment.

Cultural geography, economic geography, health geography, historical geography, political geography, population geography, rural geography, and social geography are examples of sub-disciplinary studies in human geography that focus on distinct aspects of human activity and organization.

World Geography Practice Test: Human Geography
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1. Assertion (A) : Humanistic Geography gives the central and active role to human awareness and human agency. Reason (R) : Humanistic approach developed as a reaction of positivism. Codes
2. With reference to migration, who of the following formulated the ‘Gravity Model’ which demonstrates the relationship between population size, distance and migration?
3. As per the World Development Indicators of World Bank, which one among the following South Asian countries is the average annual growth rate of population during 2002-2019 expected to be the highest?
4. Who of the following advocated the idea that ‘the state is an organism attached to the land’?
5. Who of the following geographers stated that the Earth is an inseparable organic whole?
6. Consider the following statements:
1. Columbus estimated that Asia must lie very close to Europe on the West on the basis of the work of Ptolemy.
2. Strabo gave a correct explanation of the floods of the Nile, attributing them to the heavy rains in Ethiopia. Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
7. Consider the following statements:
1. Human geography covers all those aspects of geography which are not directly concerned with physical geography.
2. Human geography is the study of interrelationship between human being and their environment.
3. Human geography with the description and explanation of human phenomena around the variable earth surface.
4. Human geography does not cover technical matters of cartography. Which of the above statements are correct?
8. Consider the following statements:
1. Humanistic geography depended on the growing need of social relevance of the subject.
2. Humanistic geography developed due to reaction to excessive quantification and model building in geography.
3. Humanistic geography drew much from the radical fund in geography. Which of the statements given above are correct?
9. Who among the following named the human dominance theory of ‘man-environment relationship’ ‘Possibilism’?
10. Consider the following statements:
1. Spatial behaviour of people.
2. Spatial perception.
3. Spaital experience and imagination.
4. Mental maps. Which of the statements given above are correct?
11. Assertion (A) : Human geography is the synthetic study of the relationship between human societies and the Earth’s surface. Reason (R) : It includes all those parts of Geography which are not solely concerned either with the physical environment or cartography. Codes
12. Which of the following scholars are related to the geocratic view point in human geography?
1. Humboldt 2. Ritter
3. Ratzel 4. Semple Select the correct answer using the codes given below: