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Quiz by Monty Leaman, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Monty Leaman
almost 7 years ago
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Question 1
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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?
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Humboldt and Ritter
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Charles Darwin and Friedrich Ratzel
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Paul Blache and Richard Hartshorne
Question 2
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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?
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Humboldt
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Ritter
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Darwin
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Ratzel
Question 3
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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)?
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Humboldt
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Ritter
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Ratzel
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Darwin
Question 4
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In what year was the Royal Geographical Society formed?
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1830
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1840
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1850
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1860
Question 5
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How did Charles Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) impacted geography?
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Broke links between geography and natural theology
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Laid the basis of new ways of conceptualising the relationship between people and the environment
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Heightened interest in the regional as a subject for geographical enquiry
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All of the above
Question 6
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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?
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Environmental Determinism
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Spatial Science
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Humanism
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Postmodernism
Question 7
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Who is considered the founder of environmental determinism in geogrpahy?
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Humboldt
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Ritter
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Ratzel
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Darwin
Question 8
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Which one of the following is not one of the three main aims of anthropogeography?
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To describe the regions of the habitable earth, and distribution of mankind over it
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To study human migratory movements of all types and their dependency on the land
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To analyse the effects of the natural environment on the human body and spirit, both on individuals and entire social groups
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Focuses on interdependence and repercussions between human civilisation and physical nature
Question 9
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Ellen Semple (a student of Ratzel) argued what in her 'Influences of the Geographical Environment' (1911)?
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Human temperament, culture, religion, economic practices and social life all derived from environmental influences
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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
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Both of the above
Question 10
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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?
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Possibilism
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Humanism
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Positivism
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Spatial Science
Question 11
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How did American, European and French developments of Regional Geography in the 19thC differ?
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America: descriptive rather than systematic study. French: associated with work of Blache. European: combination of both
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America: associated with work of Blache. French: descriptive rather than systematic study. Europe: combination of both
Question 12
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What was Paul Vidal de la Blache's work (the other is the work of Richard Hartshorne)?
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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
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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)'
Question 13
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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)
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Regional Geography
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Environmental determinism
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Possibilism
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Systematic approaches
Question 14
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What is the correct order of progression of geographical approaches?
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Early development of human geography (Humboldt and Ritter), Environmental Determinism (Ratzel, Semple), Possibilism (Febvre), Regional Geography (Blache, Hartshorne)
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Early development of human geography (Humboldt and Ritter), environmental determinism (Ratzel, Semple), Regional Geography (Blache, Hartchorne), Possibilism (Febvre)
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