FHG-CH 1 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY NATURE & SCOPE

Which of the following is not a valid dichotomy about the nature of geography?

• Nomothetic Vs Idiographic

• Regional Vs Systematic

• Artificial Vs Sythetic

• Law making Vs Descriptive

__________ geographers describe the state/country as 'Living organism'.

• German

• French

• Greek

• Phoenicians

Who among the following defined human geography as: "Human geography is the synthetic study

of relationship between human societies and

earth’s surface."

• Karl Ritter

• Paul Vidal De La Blache

• Friedrich Ratzel

• Lucien Paul Victor Febvre

Human beings interact with their physical

environment with the help of (a)   .

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

"In the early stages of their interaction with their

natural environment humans were greatly

influenced by it. They adapted to the dictates

of Nature. This is so because the level of

technology was very low and the stage of

human social development was also primitive."

This type of interaction between primitive

human society and strong forces of nature was

termed as _____________________.

• Environmental Determinism

• Possiblism

• Neo Determinism

• Stop and Go Determinism

Low levels of technological development leads to which type of human nature relationship?

• Environmental Determinism

• Possiblism

• Neo Determinism

• Stop and Go Determinism

Which of the following is not an element of physical environment?

• Village

• Landforms

• Climate

• Soil

The people begin to understand their

environment and the forces of nature with the

passage of time. With social and cultural

development, humans develop better and more

efficient technology. They move from a state of

necessity to a state of freedom. They create

possibilities with the resources obtained from

the environment. The human activities create

cultural landscape. The earlier scholars termed this as ___________________.

• Environmental Denterminism

• Possiblism

• Neo Determinism

• Stop and Go Determinism

Naturalisation of humans is also termed as ___________________.

• Environmental Denterminism

• Possiblism

• Neo Determinism

• Stop and Go Determinism

Humanisation of nature is also termed as ___________________.

• Environmental Denterminism

• Possiblism

• Neo Determinism

• Stop and Go Determinism