Social and Cultural Geography Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

Question 1 : According to the Scientists, the development of humans happened in which epoch of tertiary period?

a) Eocene
b) Oligocene
c) Miocene
d) Pliocene

Answer : d

Question 2 : Which of the following is considered to be the most recent 

a) Heidelberg humans
b) Cro-Magnon humans
c) Pilt magnon humans
d) Neanderthal humans

Answer : b

Question 3 : Which among the following is considered as representative of modern man?

a) Dryopithecus
b) Australopithecus
c) Neanderthal
d) Cro-mangon

Answer : d

Question 4 : The origin and development of Modern Homo Sapiens  was from …….. man.

a) Cro-magnon
b) Neanderthal
c) Ramapithecus
d) Java

Answer : a

Question 5 : Which of the following continent is considered as ‘Cradle of Mankind’?

a) Asia
b) Africa
c) Europe
d) South America

Answer : b

Question 6 : Consider the following statements regarding Origin of man

I. African Continent is considered as Centre for Origin of man
II. Human being belongs to the order primates, which also includes Gorilla, Chimpanzee, Orangutan besides new and old world monkeys
III. The modern Homo Sapiens Originated from the Neanderthal man
IV. The fossils of Homo erectus and Ramapitnecus were discovered form Narmada valley and Shivalik hill ranges of India

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

a) I and III
b) II and III
c) I, II and IV
d) All of these

Answer : d

Question 7 : Which one of the following is considered as first race of human kind? 

a) Mongoloid
b) Caucasoid
c) Negroid
d) All of these

Answer : c

Question 8 : The Semitic people belong to the  

a) Caucasoid race
b) Mongoloid race
c) Negroid race
d) Australoid race

Answer : c

Question 9 : The Bushmen Hottentots, Pygmies and Bantu tribal groups belong to which of the following racial group?

a) Mongoloid
b) Negroid
c) Caucasoid
d) Nordic

Answer : b

Question 10 : Which one of the following is not considered as major races of man kind?

a) Negroid
b) Caucasoid
c) Mongoloid
d) Australoid

Answer : d

Question 11 : The aboriginal population of the Andaman Islands belongs to which one of the following categories? 

a) Negroids
b) Negrito
c) Paleo-Australoids
d) Negillos

Answer : c

Question 12 : The Red Indians or the American Indians belong to the 

a) Mongolian race
b) Caucasoid race
c) Australoid race
d) Negrito race

Answer : a

Question 13 : The majority of population of North East of India belongs to the 

a) Caucasoid
b) Negroid
c) Mongoloid
d) Australoid

Answer : c

Question 14 : South-West Asia is inhabited chiefly by  

a) Caucasians
b) Mongoloids
c) Negroes
d) Red Indians

Answer : a

Question 15 : Which racial group has the largest number of members?

a) Negroid
b) Mongoloid
c) Australoid
d) Caucasoid

Answer : d

Question 16 : Caucasoid are found in 

a) West Asia
b) South America
c) Eastern Europe
d) None of these

Answer : a

Question 17 : The ethnic dravidian population belongs to which of the following racial group?

a) Caucasoid
b) Negroid
c) Mongoloid
d) Australoid

Answer : a

Question 18 : Consider the following

I. Apline
II. Armenoid
III. Nordic
IV.  East Baltic

The following subraces belongs to 

a) Mongoloid ethnic group
b) Caucasoid ethnic group
c) Negroid ethnic group
d) All of the above

Answer : b

Question 19 : Which of the following pairs are not correctly matched?

I. Indonesians – Australoid
II. North Africans – Caucasoid
III. West Europeans – Mongoloid
IV. South Americans – Negroid

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

a) I and II
b) I, III and IV
c) II and III
d) II and IV

Answer : b

Question 20 : Which of the following criteria is not used for the classification of human races?

a) Eyes
b) Ear
c) Nose
d) Hair

Answer : b

Question 21 : Which of the following racial group is identified due to their dark complex?

a) Caucasoid
b) Nordic
c) Negroid
d) Mangoloid

Answer : c

Question 22 : Which of the following statement is incorrect regarding classification of human races?

a) The skin colour of man kind is influenced by a pigment called melanin and is also impacted by geographical regions
b) In General, people belonging to Caucasoid race are tallest, while more short height people are found in Mongoloid racial group
c) Mongoloid’s are characterised by curly hairs, while Caucasoid have wolly or fizzy hairs
d) In Caucasoid racial group, the ‘A’ blood group is found relatively more than the ‘B’ blood group.

Answer : c

Question 23 : Consider the following statements – Caucasoid race is associated with

I. Long, wavy short hair
II. Narrow to medium broad face
III. Very broad, flat broad to very broad nose.

Which of these statements are correct?

a) I, II and III
b) I and II
c) II and III
d) I and III

Answer : b

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Question 25 : Which of these people change their house types according to season?

a) Pygmies
b) Kirghiz
c) Eskimos
d) Bantus

Answer : b

Question 26 : To which of the following racial groups the natives of North America belong?

a) Austric
b) Caucasoid
c) Mongoloid
d) Negroid

Answer : c

Question 27 : Which of the following region is famous for ‘Lapps’ Tribe?

a) Alaska
b) Scandinavia
c) Greenland
d) Iceland

Answer : b

Question 28 : ‘Zulu’ is a tribe associated with

a) New Zealand
b) South Africa
c) Zimbabwe
d) Mexico

Answer : b

Question 29 : The Inuit people are not found in  

a) Alaska
b) Greenland
c) Canada
d) Sweden

Answer : d

Question 30 : In which dense tropical forest do the Semang tribe live? 

a) Amezononia
b) Indonesia
c) Malaysia
d) Congo

Answer : c

Question 31 : The major Island, where Eskimos live is 

a) New Guinea
b) Hawaii
c) Greenland
d) Iceland

Answer : c

Question 32 : Eskimos are inhabitants of  

a) Canada
b) Mongolia
c) Malaya
d) Sri Lanka

Answer : a

Question 33 : The original home of the Gypsies was

a) Egypt
b) Russia
c) India
d) Persia

Answer : c

Question 34 : In which of the following regions are Pygmies found?

a) Sahara
b) Kalahari
c) Equatorial forest
d) Pampas

Answer : c

Question 35 : Which one of the following is not pastoral nomads?

a) Pygmies
b) Kazaks
c) Masai
d) Lapps

Answer : a

Question 36 : The native African tribe ‘Pygmies’ are found in which of the following river basins?

a) Niger
b) Congo
c) Nile
d) Zambezi

Answer : b

Question 37 : Which of the following is not correctly matched?

a) Pygmy – Congo Basin
b) Angami – Nagaland
c) Ainu – Japan
d) Kirghiz – Sudan

Answer : d

Question 38 : Which of the following is correctly matched?

a) Eskimo – Amazon Basin
b) Pigmy – Irrawadi Basin
c) Bundu – Sahara
d) Bushman – Kalahari

Answer : d

Question 39 : Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

a) Berber – Morocco
b) Inuits – Canada
c) Semangs – Indonesia
d) Veddas – Sri Lanka

Answer : c

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Question 41 : Which one of the following regions is defined as “A contiguous geographical area characterised by cultural homogeneity”?

a) Population region
b) Geographical region
c) Cultural realm
d) Settlement zone

Answer : c

Question 42 : The most widely accepted scheme of cultural realms

a) Spencer and Thomas
b) Broek and Webb
c) Haggett and Chorley
d) Dicken and pitts

Answer : b

Question 43 : Which one of the following is the largest entity in area location?

a) Cultural Region
b) Cultural Landscape
c) Cultural Realm
d) Cultural Point

Answer : c

Question 44 : The concept of ‘Cultural Landscape’ was popularised by

a) Wilber Zelinsky
b) Carl Sauer
c) Anne Buttimer
d) Ratzel

Answer : b

Question 45 : Which of the following is not a major cultural realm?

a) Occidental realm
b) Negro African realm
c) West Asian realm
d) Islamic realm

Answer : b

Question 46 : Which of the following realm is influenced by Christianity?

a) East Asian realm
b) Meso – African realm
c) Occidental realm
d) Indic cultural realm

Answer : c

Question 47 : Which of the following regions of occidental culture lies in tropics and is under developed?

a) Anglo American culture
b) Continental European culture
c) West European culture
d) Latin American culture

Answer : d

Question 48 : Which of the following is a minor cultural realm?

a) Meso – African realm
b) Islamic realm
c) South-East Asian realm
d) Both (a) and (c)

Answer : d

Question 49 : Which of the following is not the characteristic of Islamic cultural realm?

a) High female illiteracy rates
b) High per capita income
c) Low level of modernisation
d) All of the above are characteristics of Islamic cultural realm

Answer : d

Question 50 : According to Baker, Indian cultural realm is called 

a) Paddy cultural
b) Oriental cultural
c) Continental cultural
d) None of the above

Answer : c

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