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Human Lecture One: Human Geography before 1945

Question 1 of 14

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Who laid out the foundations for geography as a specific branch of knowledge; bringing together the wealth of new empirical information gathered during European exploration and colonialism in the 17thC and 18thC. Organising and ordering the existing knowledge of the world in new ways using methods of scientific enquiry?

Select one of the following:

  • Humboldt and Ritter

  • Charles Darwin and Friedrich Ratzel

  • Paul Blache and Richard Hartshorne

Explanation

Question 2 of 14

1

Which geographer authored 'Kosmos' which included regional economics, climates and vegetation zones; which encouraged the accurate study of phenomena to find definitive laws and causes?

Select one of the following:

  • Humboldt

  • Ritter

  • Darwin

  • Ratzel

Explanation

Question 3 of 14

1

Which geographer dedicated himself to the study of the earth as the home of mankind, adopting in a mosaic world view (his work was teleological)?

Select one of the following:

  • Humboldt

  • Ritter

  • Ratzel

  • Darwin

Explanation

Question 4 of 14

1

In what year was the Royal Geographical Society formed?

Select one of the following:

  • 1830

  • 1840

  • 1850

  • 1860

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Question 5 of 14

1

How did Charles Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) impacted geography?

Select one of the following:

  • Broke links between geography and natural theology

  • Laid the basis of new ways of conceptualising the relationship between people and the environment

  • Heightened interest in the regional as a subject for geographical enquiry

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 6 of 14

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Which doctrine stated human activities are controlled by the environment. Stimulated by Darwin's work; these ideas could help to explain the pattern and processes of human habitation of the Earth's surface?

Select one of the following:

  • Environmental Determinism

  • Spatial Science

  • Humanism

  • Postmodernism

Explanation

Question 7 of 14

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Who is considered the founder of environmental determinism in geogrpahy?

Select one of the following:

  • Humboldt

  • Ritter

  • Ratzel

  • Darwin

Explanation

Question 8 of 14

1

Which one of the following is not one of the three main aims of anthropogeography?

Select one of the following:

  • To describe the regions of the habitable earth, and distribution of mankind over it

  • To study human migratory movements of all types and their dependency on the land

  • To analyse the effects of the natural environment on the human body and spirit, both on individuals and entire social groups

  • Focuses on interdependence and repercussions between human civilisation and physical nature

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Question 9 of 14

1

Ellen Semple (a student of Ratzel) argued what in her 'Influences of the Geographical Environment' (1911)?

Select one of the following:

  • Human temperament, culture, religion, economic practices and social life all derived from environmental influences

  • There were racist implication of environmental determinism as it assumed people in certain regions had unity in characteristics; which can degenerate into grave racial faults

  • Both of the above

Explanation

Question 10 of 14

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What came about as a critique to environmental determinism (proposed by Febvre 1922, drawing on the works of Blache) which recognised that natural feature influence human activity but could not be regarded as determining them; focusing on interdependence and repercussions between human civilisation and physical nature?

Select one of the following:

  • Possibilism

  • Humanism

  • Positivism

  • Spatial Science

Explanation

Question 11 of 14

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How did American, European and French developments of Regional Geography in the 19thC differ?

Select one of the following:

  • America: descriptive rather than systematic study. French: associated with work of Blache. European: combination of both

  • America: associated with work of Blache. French: descriptive rather than systematic study. Europe: combination of both

Explanation

Question 12 of 14

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What was Paul Vidal de la Blache's work (the other is the work of Richard Hartshorne)?

Select one of the following:

  • Approached the regional concept from its human and cultural dimensions. Defining the 'region' as a unique expression of the interaction between humanity and the physical environment

  • Argued that geography was about the analysis and synthesis of phenomena in space; it's unique role was to study 'the world, seeking to describe, and to interpret the difference among its different parts (1939)'

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Question 13 of 14

1

Which geographical approach helped develop geography in the following ways? (Allowed the study of human-environment interaction, served as an excellent teaching aid, provided a sound classification tool and gave geographers a clear object of enquiry, which distinguished it from the work of other disciplines)

Select one of the following:

  • Regional Geography

  • Environmental determinism

  • Possibilism

  • Systematic approaches

Explanation

Question 14 of 14

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What is the correct order of progression of geographical approaches?

Select one of the following:

  • Early development of human geography (Humboldt and Ritter), Environmental Determinism (Ratzel, Semple), Possibilism (Febvre), Regional Geography (Blache, Hartshorne)

  • Early development of human geography (Humboldt and Ritter), environmental determinism (Ratzel, Semple), Regional Geography (Blache, Hartchorne), Possibilism (Febvre)

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