Match List-I with List-II
| List-I (Fields of Human Geography) | List-II (Interface with Sister Human Disciplines of Social Sciences) | ||
| (A) | Social Geography | (I) | Anthropology |
| (B) | Political Geography | (II) | Psephology |
| (C) | Settlement Geography | (III) | Demography |
| (D) | Population Geography | (IV) | Urban/Rural Planning |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
(A) Social Geography — this matches (I) Anthropology.
(B) Political Geography — this matches (II) Psephology. Psephology is linked through its sub-field Electoral Geography.
(C) Settlement Geography — this matches (IV) Urban/Rural Planning.
(D) Population Geography — this matches (III) Demography.
Note: The given answer is as per the official NTA Answer Key. The book does not pair Social Geography itself with Anthropology. It pairs Anthropology with Cultural Geography and Gender Geography, which are sub-fields of Social Geography.
NCERT (2026-27): “Fields and Sub-fields of Human Geography … Human geography, as you have seen, attempts to explain the relationship between all elements of human life and the space they occur over. Thus, human geography assumes a highly inter-disciplinary nature. It develops close interface with other sister disciplines in social sciences in order to understand and explain human elements on the surface of the earth.”
Table 1.2: Human Geography and Sister Disciplines of Social Sciences |
