Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Geography

Chapter

Fundamentals of Human Geography: Human Geography-Nature and Scope

Question:

Read the Passage given below and answer the following question (Q 2).
Winters in the town of Trondheim mean fierce winds and heavy snow. The skies are dark for months. Kari drives to work in the dark at 8 am. She has special tyres for the winter and keeps the headlights of her powerful car switched on. Her office is artificially heated at a comfortable 23 degrees Celsius. The campus of the university she works in is built under a huge glass dome. This dome keeps the snow out in winter and lets in the sunshine in the summer. The temperature is controlled carefully and there is adequate lighting. Even though fresh vegetables and plants don’t grow in such harsh weather, Kari keeps an orchid on her desk and enjoys eating tropical fruits like banana and kiwi. These are flown in from warmer areas regularly. With a click of the mouse, Kari can network with colleagues in New Delhi. She frequently takes a morning flight to London and returns in the evening in time to watch her favourite television serial. Though Kari is fifty-eight years old, she is fitter and looks younger than many thirty year- olds in other parts of the world.

Assertion:  As per the concept of Neo determinism, nature provides opportunities and human being make use of these and slowly nature gets humanised and starts bearing the imprints of human endeavour.
Reasoning: Neo Determinism is a middle path (Madhyam Marg) between the two ideas of environmental determinism and possibilism.

Options:

Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and but R is not correct explanation of A. 

Assertion (A) is true but Reasoning (R)  is not correct. 

Assertion (A) is not true but Reasoning (R)  is  correct. 

 

Correct Answer:

Assertion (A) is not true but Reasoning (R)  is  correct. 

 

Explanation:

The correct option is: Option 4: Assertion (A) is not true but Reasoning (R)  is  correct.

Assertion:  As per the concept of Neo determinism, nature provides opportunities and human being make use of these and slowly nature gets humanised and starts bearing the imprints of human endeavour. This incorrect. As per the concept of Possibilism, nature provides opportunities and human being make use of these and slowly nature gets humanised and starts bearing the imprints of human endeavour.

Reasoning: Neo Determinism is a middle path (Madhyam Marg) between the two ideas of environmental determinism and possibilism.  This is correct.