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.

Who plays active role in possibilism ?

Options:

Nature

Human Beings

Environment

Both 1 and 3

Correct Answer:

Human Beings

Explanation:

Human beings play active role in possibilism also called as humanisation of nature. With the help of growing technology humans started creating possibilities in nature and slowly nature started getting humanised.