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Class 12 Geo NCERT Chapter 1
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- 1Components of Earth1] Nature ( physical environment) and
2) Life forms including human beings - 2Physical geographyIt studies physical environment
- 3Human geography1. It studies the relationship between physical/natural and human worlds, the spatial distribution of human phenomena and how they come about, the social and economic differences between different parts of the world
2. Human Geography attempts to explain the relationship between all elements of human life and the space they occur over. - 4Geography's concernThe core concern of geography as a discipline is to understand the earth as home of human beings and to study all those elements which have sustained them
- 5Human Geography definedRatzel - human Geography is the synthetic study of relationship between human society and earth's surface.
Ellen C. Semple - Human Geography is the study of the changing relationship between the and resting man and the unstable Earth - 6Nature of human geographyHuman Geography studies the inter-relationship between the physical environment and the socio-cultural environment created by human beings through mutual interaction with each other.
- 7Elements of physical environment1. Landforms
2. Soils
3. Climate
4. Water
5. Natural vegetation
6. Diverse flora and fauna - 8Elements which human beings have createdHouses, villages, cities, road-rail networks, industries, farms, ports, items of our daily use and all other elements of material culture have been created by human beings using the resources provided by the physical environment
- 9Human beings and Technology1. Human beings interact with their physical environment with the help of technology
2. Technology indicates the level of cultural development of society
3. Knowledge about nature is extremely important to develop technology - 10Environmental determinism1. The type of interaction between primitive human society and strong forces of nature was termed as environmental determinism.
2. Stage of very low technological development humans who listen to nature, was afraid of its Fury and worshipped it. - 11Possibilism1. Nature provides opportunities and human beings make use of this and slowly nature gets humanized and starts during the imprints of human endeavour.
2. They move from a state of necessity to a state of freedom.
3. They create possibilities with the resources obtained from the environment. - 12NeodeterminismGeography Griffith Taylor introduced the middle path concept between two ideas of environmental determinism and possibilism as Neo determinism or stop and go determinism.
- 13Neo determinism1. Concept shows that neither there is a situation of absolute necessity (environmental determinism) nor is there a situation of absolute freedom (possibilism) .
2. Means that possibilities can be created within the limits which do not damage the environment and there is no freedom without accidents.
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