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1. Which were the two main branches of geography?
2. What are the recent techniques that helped the geographer to understand the earth's surface
better?
3. Explain the four branches of physical geography.
4. How is regional geography different from systematic geography?
5. Geography studies the mutual relationship between environment and man."Elaborate this
statement.
6. What are different sources of information about the interior of the earth?
7. Distinguish between Lava and Magma.
8. Explain different types of volcanic landforms,
9. Explain the structure of the earth with the help of diagram,
10. What do you mean by earthquake? Explain the three earthquake waves.
11. What do you mean by seismologist? Discuss focus/hypocenter and epicenter. How do we
measure its magnitude and intensity?
12. Explain the continental drift theory given by Alfred Wegener.
13. The chief cause of a volcano is disturbances in earth's crust". Elaborate the statement.
14. Explain Tectonic plate theory and its working.
15. Explain the ocean floor configuration with the help of diagram.
16. Explain the rock cycle with the help of diagram
17. Why are minerals important for us?
18. What is meant by geomorphic process? What are its agents? Give examples.
19. Deposition is the result of erosion. Explain.
20 Why are parent material and time considered as passive control factors in soil formation?
Answers
1) Geography is divided into two main branches—physical and human geography.
2) (the photo is given upside)
3) Physical geography was conventionally subdivided into geomorphology, climatology, hydrology, and biogeography, but is now more holistic in systems analysis of recent environmental and Quaternary change.
4) Regional Geography. There are two basic approaches to the study of world geography. The REGIONAL approach studies the many characteristics of each region (or realm) of the world. ... SYSTEMATIC geography, on the other hand, studies one issue and looks at its spatial variations in all parts of the globe.
5) The concept of geography as the study of man and environment relationship is quite old.
The Greek, Roman, Indian, Chinese and Arab geographers attempted to establish a relationship between man and natural environment. Kant, in the concluding part of the 18th century, advocated the impact of environment on the lifestyle and physical constitution and lifestyle the equatorial, hot deserts, Mediterranean, coastal and mountainous regions. According to Kant, the inhabitants of torrid zone are exceptionally lazy and timid, while the people of the Mediterranean region living in the mild temperature conditions are industrious, hard working and progressive.
The environmental causation continued throughout the 19th century. Humboldt asserted that the mode of life of the inhabitants of the mountainous countries of the Andes mountains differ from that of the people of Amazon basin, coastal plains and islands like Cuba and West Indies. Ritter attempted to establish the cause variations in the physical constitution of body, physique and health of people living in the different physical environmental conditions.
The idea of defining geography in terms of man and environment relationship developed on scientific lines in the later part of the 19th century after the publication of Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin. This seminal work gave a new direction to the discipline of geography. The theory of evolution held that all living species have evolved from pre-existing forms. His geological observations and theories had one thing in common: the idea that things in nature change with time.
He also believed that the face of the earth also changes with the change in environment over the period of time. In this book, Origin of Species, Darwin presented his idea that species evolve from more primitive species through the process of natural selection. In his account of natural selection occurs, known as Darwinism, he pointed out that not all individuals of a species are exactly the same but have variations and some of these variations make their bearers better adapted to particular ecological conditions.
He theorized that well-adapted individuals of a species have more chance of surviving and producing young than do the less adapted, and that over the passage of time the latter are slowly weeded out. Through his theory Darwin showed how the multitude of living things in our world could have come into being without any recourse to a divine master plan, in a plain, causal, naturalistic way. Darwin argued that a struggle for existence must take place; it followed that those who survived were better adapted to their environment than competitors. This means that relatively superior adaptations increase while relatively inferior ones are steadily eliminated.
Answer:
1) Geography is divided into two main branches—physical and human geography.
2) (the photo is given upside)
3) Physical geography was conventionally subdivided into geomorphology, climatology, hydrology, and biogeography, but is now more holistic in systems analysis of recent environmental and Quaternary change.
4) Regional Geography. There are two basic approaches to the study of world geography. The REGIONAL approach studies the many characteristics of each region (or realm) of the world. ... SYSTEMATIC geography, on the other hand, studies one issue and looks at its spatial variations in all parts of the globe.
5) The concept of geography as the study of man and environment relationship is quite old.
The Greek, Roman, Indian, Chinese and Arab geographers attempted to establish a relationship between man and natural environment. Kant, in the concluding part of the 18th century, advocated the impact of environment on the lifestyle and physical constitution and lifestyle the equatorial, hot deserts, Mediterranean, coastal and mountainous regions. According to Kant, the inhabitants of torrid zone are exceptionally lazy and timid, while the people of the Mediterranean region living in the mild temperature conditions are industrious, hard working and progressive.
The environmental causation continued throughout the 19th century. Humboldt asserted that the mode of life of the inhabitants of the mountainous countries of the Andes mountains differ from that of the people of Amazon basin, coastal plains and islands like Cuba and West Indies. Ritter attempted to establish the cause variations in the physical constitution of body, physique and health of people living in the different physical environmental conditions.
The idea of defining geography in terms of man and environment relationship developed on scientific lines in the later part of the 19th century after the publication of Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin. This seminal work gave a new direction to the discipline of geography. The theory of evolution held that all living species have evolved from pre-existing forms. His geological observations and theories had one thing in common: the idea that things in nature change with time.
He also believed that the face of the earth also changes with the change in environment over the period of time. In this book, Origin of Species, Darwin presented his idea that species evolve from more primitive species through the process of natural selection. In his account of natural selection occurs, known as Darwinism, he pointed out that not all individuals of a species are exactly the same but have variations and some of these variations make their bearers better adapted to particular ecological conditions.
He theorized that well-adapted individuals of a species have more chance of surviving and producing young than do the less adapted, and that over the passage of time the latter are slowly weeded out. Through his theory Darwin showed how the multitude of living things in our world could have come into being without any recourse to a divine master plan, in a plain, causal, naturalistic way. Darwin argued that a struggle for existence must take place; it followed that those who survived were better adapted to their environment than competitors. This means that relatively superior adaptations increase while relatively inferior ones are steadily eliminated.
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