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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 →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Human geography bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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Who described human geography as the changing relationship between the unresting man and the unstable earth?

  1. Vidal de la Blache
  2. Ellen C. Semple
  3. Friedrich Ratzel
  4. Griffith Taylor
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Correct answer: B. Ellen C. Semple

1. Semple's definition stresses change. 2. Dynamism is the keyword. 3. Ratzel stressed synthesis. _Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 1, Human Geography: Nature and Scope._

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Geographers speak of the eye of a storm and the mouth of a river. These borrow terms from what?

  1. Architecture
  2. Human anatomy
  3. Music notation
  4. Mathematics
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Correct answer: B. Human anatomy

1. Both physical and human features are described in body metaphors. 2. Face of the earth, snout of a glacier, neck of an isthmus. 3. Roads are called arteries of circulation. _Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 1, Human Geography: Nature and Scope._

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German geographers described the state or country as what?

  1. A river basin
  2. A trading market
  3. A living organism
  4. A working machine
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Correct answer: C. A living organism

1. Regions and towns were also called organisms. 2. The German school called the state a living organism. 3. Transport networks were arteries. _Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 1, Human Geography: Nature and Scope._

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