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Human Lecture One: Human Geography before 1945

Monty Leaman 14 perguntas

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  1. 1Who 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?
    1. AHumboldt and Ritter
    2. BCharles Darwin and Friedrich Ratzel
    3. CPaul Blache and Richard Hartshorne
  2. 2Which geographer authored 'Kosmos' which included regional economics, climates and vegetation zones; which encouraged the accurate study of phenomena to find definitive laws and causes?
    1. AHumboldt
    2. BRitter
    3. CDarwin
    4. DRatzel
  3. 3Which geographer dedicated himself to the study of the earth as the home of mankind, adopting in a mosaic world view (his work was teleological)?
    1. AHumboldt
    2. BRitter
    3. CRatzel
    4. DDarwin
  4. 4In what year was the Royal Geographical Society formed?
    1. A1830
    2. B1840
    3. C1850
    4. D1860
  5. 5How did Charles Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) impacted geography?
    1. ABroke links between geography and natural theology
    2. BLaid the basis of new ways of conceptualising the relationship between people and the environment
    3. CHeightened interest in the regional as a subject for geographical enquiry
    4. DAll of the above
  6. 6Which 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?
    1. AEnvironmental Determinism
    2. BSpatial Science
    3. CHumanism
    4. DPostmodernism
  7. 7Who is considered the founder of environmental determinism in geogrpahy?
    1. AHumboldt
    2. BRitter
    3. CRatzel
    4. DDarwin
  8. 8Which one of the following is not one of the three main aims of anthropogeography?
    1. ATo describe the regions of the habitable earth, and distribution of mankind over it
    2. BTo study human migratory movements of all types and their dependency on the land
    3. CTo analyse the effects of the natural environment on the human body and spirit, both on individuals and entire social groups
    4. DFocuses on interdependence and repercussions between human civilisation and physical nature
  9. 9Ellen Semple (a student of Ratzel) argued what in her 'Influences of the Geographical Environment' (1911)?
    1. AHuman temperament, culture, religion, economic practices and social life all derived from environmental influences
    2. BThere were racist implication of environmental determinism as it assumed people in certain regions had unity in characteristics; which can degenerate into grave racial faults
    3. CBoth of the above
  10. 10What 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?
    1. APossibilism
    2. BHumanism
    3. CPositivism
    4. DSpatial Science

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Approaches to Geographic Knowledge (Human Approaches) Quiz on Human Lecture One: Human Geography before 1945, created by Monty Leaman on 20/05/2017.
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