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Page 1 Key Notes Material downloaded from and Portal for CBSE Notes, Test Papers, Sample Papers, Tips and Tricks Chapter -1 Human Geography Nature and Scope List of the Lesson: • Geography is a field of study is integrative, empirical and practical • It studies each and every event on the earth over the space and time • Human geography studies the relationship between man and nature • Geo. Can be studied through law making or descriptive There are two approaches of geography: 1. Systematic approach 2.
Regional approach Physical and human phenomena are described in metaphors using symbols from the human anatomy. Human Geography: Human geography is the synthetic study of relationship between human societies and earth’s surface. Nature of Human Geography: (a) Human geography studies the inter relationship between the physical environment and socio-cultural environment created by man. (b) Elements of physical are land, water, soil, climate, vegetation, fauna (c) Elements of cultural are transport and communication, settlements, crops Naturalization of Humans: (a) Man interact with nature with the help of technology (b) It is not important that what he creates but with what tools he used to create (c) Technology indicates the level of cultural development of society d.
Understanding the nature helps to create technology 1. Understanding of friction and heat helped to discover fire 2. Understanding DNA helped to eradicate diseases 3. Laws of thermodynamics helped to develop fast planes 4. Knowledge about nature is extremely important to develop technology and technology loosens the shackles of environment on human being. The interaction between primitive society and nature is called Environmental Determinism.
Humanizations of Nature 1. With the development of technology people understood the nature well 2. They move from state of necessity to state of possibilities 3. Human activities created cultural landscape 4.
So it is called as possibilism Non-determinism/ Stop and go Determinism 1. Developed by Griffith Taylor 2. It is a middle path between environmental determinism and possibilism Page 2 Key Notes Material downloaded from and Portal for CBSE Notes, Test Papers, Sample Papers, Tips and Tricks Chapter -1 Human Geography Nature and Scope List of the Lesson: • Geography is a field of study is integrative, empirical and practical • It studies each and every event on the earth over the space and time • Human geography studies the relationship between man and nature • Geo.