MCQs for Class 12 Geography Book II - Chapter 2 Human Settlements
Multiple Choice Questions
Question.1. Cities having more than 5 million population are known as :
(a) hyper city
(b) metropolitan city
(c) mega city
(d) super city
Answer
(c) mega city
Question.2. Panna, Para, Palli, Nagla and Dhani are examples of:
(a) clustered settlement
(b) hamleted settlement
(c) compact settlement
(d) dispersed settlement
Answer
(b) Hamleted settlement
Question.3. Towns and cities specialising in trade and commerce are known as _____towns.
(a) Trade
(b) Commercial
(c) Commerce
(d) Port
Answer
(b) Commercial
Question.4. Raniganj, Jharia, Digboi, Ankleshwar, Singrauli are:
(a) Mining towns
(b) Social towns
(c) Garrison
(d) Religious town
Answer
(a) Mining towns
Question.5. The sparsely located small settlements are called:
(a) town
(b) village
(c) catchment area
(d) town
Answer
(b) village
Question.6. The clustered rural settlement is :
(a) closely built up houses
(b) scattered houses
(c) sparsely built up houses
(d) unplanned house
Answer
(a) closely built up houses
Question.7. Dispersed or isolated settlement pattern in India appears in the form of :
(a) isolated huts
(b) close knit huts
(c) well dwelling huts
(d) ill planned huts
Answer
(a) isolated huts
Question.8. Uttarakhand and, Himachal Pradesh are mainly known for having ______________ :
(a) compact settlement
(b) isolated settlement
(c) rural settlement
(d) urban settlement
Answer
(b) isolated settlement
Question.9. Cluster of dwellings where human reside are known as –
(a) Human settlement
(b) Settlements
(c) Resident
(d) None
Answer
(a) Human settlement
Question.10. Name the ‘urban agglomeration’ having the highest share of immigration population in India.
(a) Port Blair
(b) Greater Mumbai
(c) Amritsar
(d) Chennai
Answer
(b) Greater Mumbai
Question.11. Arrange the following categories of towns in a sequence order according to their development in India.
(i) Ancient towns
(ii) Ultra-modern towns
(iii) Metropolitans
(iv) Modern towns
Options:
(a) i, iv, iii, ii
(b) iv, i ,iii, ii
(c) ii, iv, i, iii
(d) iii, ii, iv ,i
Answer
(a) i, iv, iii, ii
Question.12. Name the metropolitan city of Bihar.
(a) Bihar
(b) Muzaffarpur
(c) Gaya
(d) Patna
Answer
(d) Patna
Question.13. Ghaziabad, Rohtak, Gurugram and Faridabad are:
(a) Rural areas
(b) Satellite cities
(c) Urban cities
(d) None of the Above
Answer
(b) Satellite cities
Question.14. ___________ settlement is the kind of settlement that generally develops in the fertile plain and river valleys.
(a) Clustered rural settlement
(b) Clustered urban settlement
(c) Clustered grouped settlement
(d) None of the Above
Answer
(a) Clustered rural settlement
Question.15. Varanasi, Mathura, Amritsar, Madurai, Puriare :
(a) mining towns
(b) commercial towns
(c) religious towns
(d) heritage town
Answer
(c) religious towns
Question.16. Cluster of dwellings of any type or size where human beings live is known as :
(a) human settlement
(b) human development
(c) human displacement
(d) human cluster
Answer
(a) human settlement
Question.17. Which one of the following is not the part of the definition of a town as per the Census of 2011?
(a) Population density of 400 p/km²
(b) Presence of municipality corporation etc.
(c) Population size of more than 5000 persons.
(d) More than 75% of the population engaged in primary sector.
Answer
(d) More than 75% of the population engaged in primary sector.
Question.18. What is the percentage of Urban population in India of its total population according to census 2011?
(a) 41.16
(b) 31.16
(c) 21.16
(d) 11.16
Answer
(b) 31.16
Question.19. How much percentage of Urban population resides in class 1 cities?
(a) 30
(b) 40
(c) 50
(d) 60
Answer
(d) 60
Question.20. Name the smallest million plus city of India.
(a) Kota
(b) Guwahati
(c) Indore
(d) Patna
Answer
(a) Kota
Question.21. Which one of the following is an ancient town in India?
(a) Agra
(b) Delhi
(c) Goa
(d) Varanasi
Answer
(d) Varanasi
Question.22. How many million plus cities are there in India according to census 2011?
(a) 53
(b) 54
(c) 55
(d) 56
Answer
(a) 53
Question.23. Which of the following are famous transport cities?
(a) Chandigarh and New Delhi
(b) Raniganj and Jharia
(c) Kandla and Kochi
(d) Danaher and Ambala
Answer
(c) Kandla and Kochi
Question.24. Which one of the following is the largest metropolitan city of Uttar Pradesh?
(a) Allahabad
(b) Varanasi
(c) Lucknow
(d) Kanpur
Answer
(d) Kanpur
Question.25. Which one of the following is the largest metropolitan city of Madhya Pradesh?
(a) Gwalior
(b) Ujjain
(c) Indore
(d) Bhopal
Answer
(c) Indore
Question.26. Which one of the following is not a mining town?
(a) Dhanbad
(b) Jharia
(c) Gaya
(d) Raniganj
Answer
(c) Gaya
Question.27. Which one of the following is not a modern town?
(a) Delhi
(b) Surat
(c) Goa
(d) Pondicherry
Answer
(a) Delhi
Question.28. Which one of the following towns is not situated along the bank of a river?
(a) Agra
(b) Bhopal
(c) Patna
(d) Kolkata
Answer
(b) Bhopal
Question.29. Which one of the following groups of cities has been arranged in the sequence of their rank i.e 1, 2, 3 and 4 in population size?
(a) Greater Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Chennai
(b) Delhi, Greater Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata
(c) Kolkata, Greater Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata
(d) Greater Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai
Answer
(d) Greater Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai
Question.30. In which year the decadal growth rate of urban population was maximum?
(a) 1971
(b) 1981
(c) 1991
(d) 2001
Answer
(b) 1981
Question.31. Which one among the following is NOT the example of Garrison cantonment town?
(a) Babina
(b) Udhampur
(c) Kozhikode
(d) Mhow
Answer
(c) Kozhikode
Question.32. Which one from the following is known as Industrial Town?
(a) Shillong
(b) Visakhapatnam
(c) Digboi
(d) Jamshedpur
Answer
(d) Jamshedpur
