Detailed, Step-by-Step NCERT Solutions for Class 11 Geography Chapter 1 Geography as a Discipline Questions and Answers were solved by Expert Teachers as per NCERT (CBSE) Book guidelines covering each topic in chapter to ensure complete preparation.
Geography as a Discipline NCERT Solutions for Class 11 Geography Chapter 1
Geography as a Discipline Questions and Answers Class 11 Geography Chapter 1
Question 1.
Multiple choice questions :
(i) Which one of the following scholars coined the term Geography?
(a) Herodotus
(b) Erathosthenese
(c) Galiileo
(d) Aristotle
Answer:
(b) Erathosthenese.
(ii) Which one of the following features can be termed as ‘physical feature’?
(a) Port
(b) Road
(c) Plain
(d) Water park
Answer:
(c) Plain.
(iii) Make correct pairs from the following two columns and mark the correct option.
| Column I | Column II |
| Natural/Social science | Branch of geography |
| 1. Meteorology | A. Population geography |
| 2. Demography | B. Soil geography |
| 3. Sociology | C. Climatology ‘ |
| 4. Pedology | D. Social geography |
Mark the correct matching :
(a) IB, 2C, 3A, 4D
(b) ID, 2B, 3C, 4A
(c) I A, 2D, 3B, 4G
(d) IC, 2 A, 3D, 4B
Answer:
(d) IC, 2A, 3D, 4B.
(iv) Which one of the following questions is related to cause- effect relationship?
(a) Why
(b) Where
(c) What
(d) When
Answer:
(a) Why
(v) Which one of the following disciplines attempts temporal synthesis?
(a) Sociology
(b) Geography
(c) Anthropology
(d) History
Answer:
(d) History.
Question 2.
Answer the following questions in about 30 words each :
(i) What important cultural features do you observe while going to school? Are they similar or dissimilar? Should they be included in the study of geography or not? If yes, why?
Answer:
My school is situated in the market. That is a very thickly populated area. On the way, there is a railway crossing. The distance of school from my house is only half kilometre but it takes 30 minutes. The cultural features are dissimilar. This area is highly polluted by smoke and sound, but the road is smooth. Physical atmosphere is unfavourable but cultural features are in favour.
(ii) You have seen a tennis ball, cricket ball, an orange and a pumpkin. Which one amongst these resembles the shape of the earth? Why have you chosen this particular item to describe the shape of the earth?
Answer:
The shape of the earth resembles with a pumpkin. Because the shape of the earth is geoid, which is flattened at two of its poles.
(iii) Do you celebrate Van Mahotsava in your school? Why do we plant so many trees? How do the trees maintain ecological balance?
Answer:
Yes, we celebrate Van Mahotsava in our school. Trees maintain ecological balance in nature. They receive energy from the sun to produce their own food. This energy is further transferred to herbivores and then from herbivores to the carnivores. Further, the dead remains of the producers and consumers, both herbivores and carnivores, provide energy to the decomposers. A part of the food energy is consumed or assimilated by organisms and the rest is dissipated as heat by respiration. In this way, the trees or green plants maintain ecological balance.
(iv) You have seen elephants, deer, earthworms, trees and grasses. Where do they live or grow? What is the name given to this sphere? Can you describe some of the important features of this sphere?
Answer:
Elephants, deer, earthworms, trees and grasses, all live or grow on the surface of the earth. This zone at the earth’s surface both on land and water, is known as Biosphere.
Biosphere is the most active sphere of the earth in comparison to lithosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere. The living organisms, together with the environment with which they interact, form the biosphere. Life of any kind is possible in biosphere.
(v) How much time do you take to reach your school from your house? Had the school been located across the road from your house, how much time would you have taken to reach the school? What is the effect of the distance between your residence and the school on the time taken in commuting? Can you convert time into space and vice versa?
Answer:
I take 1 hour to reach the school. My school is not located across the road. The distance of the school from my residence is 4 km. This distance can be covered in 30 minutes, if I go by bicycle, or in 10 minutes, if I go by bus. There is no obstacle or barrier on the way. No, the time can not be converted into space or vice versa.
Question 3.
Answer the following questions in about 150 words each :
(i) You observe every day in your surroundings that there is variation in natural as well as cultural phenomena. All the trees are not of the same variety. All the birds and animals you see, are different. All these different elements are found on the earth,Can you now argue that geography is the study of “areal differentiation”?
Answer:
There exist variations over the surface of the earth in its physical as well as cultural environment. A number of phenomena are similar and many are dissimilar. Therefore, it was logical to perceive geography as the study of‘areal differentiation.’ Thus geography was perceived to study all those phenomena which vary over space.
The geographers do not study only the variations in the phenomena over the earth’s surface, but also study the associations with the other factors which cause these variations. For example, the cropping patterns differ from, region to region, but this phenomenon is related to variations in soils, climates, demands in the market, capacity of the fanner to invest and technological inputs available to him. The geography is to find out the causal relationship between any two phenomena.
(ii) YOU have already studied geography, history, civics and economics as parts of social studies. Attempt an integration of these disciplines highlighting their interface.
Answer:
Each social science has interface with one branch of geography. Every discipline has a philosphy which is the reason d’etere for that discipline. Philosphy provides roots to a discipline and in the process of its evolution. The branches of geography, viz, social, political economic dnd population and settlements are closely linked with these disciplines as each of them has spatial attributes.
The political geography is interested in the study of the state as a spatial unit as well as people and their political behaviour. Economics deals with basic attributes of the economy such as production, distribution, exchange and consumption. Like population, geography is closely linked with the discipline of demography. Historical Geography studies the historical