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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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Human Lecture One: Human Geography before 1945

Frage 1 von 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?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Humboldt and Ritter

  • Charles Darwin and Friedrich Ratzel

  • Paul Blache and Richard Hartshorne

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Frage 2 von 14

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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?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Humboldt

  • Ritter

  • Darwin

  • Ratzel

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Frage 3 von 14

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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)?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Humboldt

  • Ritter

  • Ratzel

  • Darwin

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Frage 4 von 14

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In what year was the Royal Geographical Society formed?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 1830

  • 1840

  • 1850

  • 1860

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Frage 5 von 14

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

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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

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Frage 6 von 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?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Environmental Determinism

  • Spatial Science

  • Humanism

  • Postmodernism

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Frage 7 von 14

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Who is considered the founder of environmental determinism in geogrpahy?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Humboldt

  • Ritter

  • Ratzel

  • Darwin

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Frage 8 von 14

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

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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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Frage 9 von 14

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

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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

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Frage 10 von 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?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Possibilism

  • Humanism

  • Positivism

  • Spatial Science

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Frage 11 von 14

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

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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

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Frage 12 von 14

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

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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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Frage 13 von 14

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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)

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Regional Geography

  • Environmental determinism

  • Possibilism

  • Systematic approaches

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Frage 14 von 14

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What is the correct order of progression of geographical approaches?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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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