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WorksheetsFHG-CH 1 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY NATURE & SCOPE
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
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
Neo Determinism is also termed as ___________________.
Environmental Denterminism
Possiblism
Stop and Go Determinism
The concept of neo determinism was developed by
Griffith Taylor
Paul Videl De La Blache
Ellen Churchill Semple
Richard Hartshone
Concept which reflects a middle path
(Madhyam Marg) between the two ideas of
environmental determinism and possibilism.
Neo Determinism
Neo Possiblism
Areal Differntiation
Quantitative revolution
_________ school of thought
in human geography was mainly concerned
with the different aspects of social well-being
of the people. These included aspects such
as housing, health and education.
Welfare
Humanistic
Radical
Behavioural
___________ school of thought employed
Marxian theory to explain the basic cause
of poverty, deprivation and social inequality
Welfare
Humanistic
Radical
Behavioural
_____________ school of thought laid great
emphasis on lived experience and also on
the perception of space by social categories
based on ethnicity, race and religion, etc.
Welfare
Humanistic
Radical
Behavioural
The broad approach to geography in which the focus is on identifying the uniqueness of any region
and understanding how and why it was different from
others.
Areal Differnetiation
Spatial Organisation
Quantitative revolution
Regional analysis
Marked by the use of computers and sophisticated
statistical tools. Laws of physics were often applied to
map and analyse human phenomena. This phase was
called the _______________. The main objective was
to identify mappable patterns for different human
activities
Areal differntiation
Spatial differentiation
Quantitative revolution
post modernism
Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence of broad stages and thrust of geography.
Exploration-Regional analysis-areal differentiation-spatial organisation-post modernism.
Regional analysis-areal differentiation-post modernism-spatial organisation-exploration.
Area differentiation-spatial analysis-post modernism-regional analysis-exploration.
Post modernism-regional analysis-exploration-areal differentiation-spatial organisation.
Which of the following is an branch of economic geography.
Geography of leisure
Medical geography
Military geography
Geography of marketing
Historical geography is a sub field of
Urban geography
Social geography
Political geography
Population geography
Geography of tourism is a sub field of
Urban geography
Social geography
Economic geography
Population geography
Geography of marketing is a sub field of
Social geography
Urban geography
Economic geography
Political geography
Which of the following sub field of human geography is related to Psephology?
Electoral geography
Military geography
Historical geography
Medical geography
