Which of the following is an element of cultural landscape?

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 2

The correct answer is Option (2) → Agricultural fields

Option (1) Volcano — Incorrect. A volcano is made by forces inside the earth, a part of the physical environment.

Option (2) Agricultural fields — Correct. The human activities create cultural landscape. Its imprints are everywhere: urban sprawls, fields, orchards and pastures in the plains, ports on the coasts and routes on the oceans.

Option (3) Mountains — Incorrect. Mountains exist without any human effort; they are natural landforms.

Option (4) Glacial topography — Incorrect. Land carved by moving ice is the work of nature, not of people.

NCERT (2025-26): “Naturalisation of Humans and Humanisation of Nature … 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.”