A geographer calls human geography the synthetic study of the relationship between human societies and the earth's surface. Who said this?
AFriedrich Ratzel
BEllen C. Semple
CVidal de la Blache
DGriffith Taylor
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Friedrich Ratzel
1. Ratzel gave this definition.
2. Synthesis is its key idea.
3. Semple stressed dynamism instead.
_Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 1, Human Geography: Nature and Scope._
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