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Who coined whatRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Settlements bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A geographer calls human geography the synthetic study of the relationship between human societies and the earth's surface. Who said this?Read the answer and worked solution →Who described human geography as the changing relationship between the unresting man and the unstable earth?Read the answer and worked solution →Geographers speak of the eye of a storm and the mouth of a river. These borrow terms from what?Read the answer and worked solution →German geographers described the state or country as what?Read the answer and worked solution →What indicates the level of cultural development of a society, in the view of human geographers?Read the answer and worked solution →A primitive tribe adapts fully to the dictates of nature and worships it. This interaction is termed:Read the answer and worked solution →Benda in the Abujh Maad forest burns patches of forest and farms on the ash. This practice is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Humans create health resorts on highlands, ports on coasts and satellites in space. Early scholars called this:Read the answer and worked solution →Kari works in a glass-domed campus in dark, snowy winters and eats flown-in tropical fruit. Which town is she in?Read the answer and worked solution →Who introduced the middle path between determinism and possibilism called neodeterminism?Read the answer and worked solution →Neodeterminism is also known by which traffic-light nickname?Read the answer and worked solution →The free run taken by developed economies has led to which set of problems?Read the answer and worked solution →In the early colonial period, what prompted the exploration and description of new areas?Read the answer and worked solution →Which approach of the 1930s focused on the uniqueness of each region?Read the answer and worked solution →The phase using computers and statistics to map human patterns was called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Discontent with the quantitative revolution produced three new schools of thought in which decade?Read the answer and worked solution →Which school of thought used Marxian theory to explain poverty and inequality?Read the answer and worked solution →Which school stressed lived experience and perception of space by ethnic and religious groups?Read the answer and worked solution →The welfare or humanistic school was mainly concerned with which aspects?Read the answer and worked solution →Electoral geography interfaces with which sister discipline?Read the answer and worked solution →Behavioural geography draws on which sister discipline?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the geographersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the body metaphorsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the approachesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the schoolsRead the answer and worked solution →Determinism or possibilismRead the answer and worked solution →Match the sister scienceRead the answer and worked solution →

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Who coined what

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Items
  1. Group
    Geddes
    Item
    Conurbation
  2. Group
    Geddes
    Item
    1915 term
  3. Group
    Gottman
    Item
    Megalopolis
  4. Group
    Gottman
    Item
    1957 term
  5. Group
    Griffin
    Item
    Canberra plan
  6. Group
    Griffin
    Item
    Garden city
Groups
  1. Item
    Geddes
  2. Item
    Gottman
  3. Item
    Griffin
Instructions
Drop each term onto the person linked with it.
_Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 10, Human Settlements._

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Type the number

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Questions
  1. Answer
    54
    Question
    Urban share of world population today, per cent
  2. Answer
    512
    Question
    Million-plus cities in 2016
  3. Answer
    31
    Question
    Mega cities in the world now
  4. Answer
    30000
    Question
    Minimum urban population in Japan
  5. Answer
    1912
    Question
    Year Canberra was planned
  6. Answer
    1915
    Question
    Year conurbation was coined
Instructions
Type the number only.
_Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 10, Human Settlements._

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Settlements bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Merged towns, term by Geddes.
    Item
    Conurbation
  2. Clue
    Boston to Washington, Gottman's word.
    Item
    Megalopolis
  3. Clue
    Over 10 million people.
    Item
    Mega city
  4. Clue
    Crosses the one million mark.
    Item
    Million city
  5. Clue
    New Flower, capital of Ethiopia.
    Item
    Addis Ababa
  6. Clue
    Planned garden city by Griffin.
    Item
    Canberra
  7. Clue
    Cleaner outskirts where commuters live.
    Item
    Suburb
  8. Clue
    Ice block house of the Eskimos.
    Item
    Igloo
  9. Clue
    Village along a road or river.
    Item
    Linear
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 10, Human Settlements._

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