Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Geography

Chapter

Fundamentals of Human Geography: Human Geography-Nature and Scope

Question:
Which of the following is correct in respect of the concept of Possibilism?
Options:
Nature provides opportunities and human being make use of these.
Slowly nature gets humanised and starts bearing the imprints of human endeavour.
People move from a state of necessity to a state of freedom. They create possibilities with the resources obtained from the environment.
All of the above.
Correct Answer:
All of the above.
Explanation:
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.