Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Geography

Chapter

Fundamentals of Human Geography: Human Geography-Nature and Scope

Question:

The people begin to understand their environment and the forces of nature with the passage of time. With social and cultural development, humans develop better and more efficient technology. They move from a state of necessity to a state of freedom. They create possibilities with the resources obtained from the environment. The human activities create cultural landscape. The imprints of human activities are created everywhere; health resorts on highlands, huge urban sprawls, fields, orchards and pastures in plains and rolling hills, ports on the coasts, oceanic routes on the oceanic surface and satellites in the space. The earlier scholars termed this as possibilism. Nature provides opportunities and human being make use of these and slowly nature gets humanised and starts bearing the imprints of human endeavour.

Which of the following is NOT true about possibilism:

Options:

Nature gets humanised

Nature plays active role here

Science and technology help in creating possibilities

Also termed as humanisation of nature 

Correct Answer:

Nature plays active role here

Explanation:

Possibilism is also referred to as humanisation of nature and with the help of science and technology nature gets humanised. Humans play an active role here and nature is passive.