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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 →A fishing boat is 10 nautical miles off Gujarat. Up to how many nautical miles from the coast does India's territorial limit extend?Read the answer and worked solution →One nautical mile equals roughly how many kilometres?Read the answer and worked solution →India's southern boundary in the Bay of Bengal extends up to which latitude?Read the answer and worked solution →India's north-south distance is 3,214 km. What is the east-west distance?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is India's east-west distance less than its north-south distance though both span about 30 degrees?Read the answer and worked solution →The southern part of India lies within the tropics. In which zone does the northern part lie?Read the answer and worked solution →The sun rises in the northeastern States about how much earlier than in Jaisalmer?Read the answer and worked solution →Which longitude is India's standard meridian?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Humans create health resorts on highlands, ports on coasts and satellites in space. Early scholars called this:

  1. Neodeterminism
  2. Regionalism
  3. Possibilism
  4. Determinism
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Correct answer: C. Possibilism

1. Nature provides opportunities and humans use them. 2. This is possibilism. 3. Nature gets humanised. _Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 1, Human Geography: Nature and Scope._

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Kari works in a glass-domed campus in dark, snowy winters and eats flown-in tropical fruit. Which town is she in?

  1. Stockholm
  2. Helsinki
  3. Reykjavik
  4. Trondheim
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Correct answer: D. Trondheim

1. The story of Kari shows humanisation of nature. 2. She lives in Trondheim. 3. Technology overcomes natural constraints. _Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 1, Human Geography: Nature and Scope._

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Who introduced the middle path between determinism and possibilism called neodeterminism?

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

1. Griffith Taylor proposed it. 2. It is also called stop and go determinism. 3. Humans conquer nature by obeying it. _Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 1, Human Geography: Nature and Scope._

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