MGG-1 2024-25 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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ASSIGNMENT
Course Code: MGG-001
Introduction to Geograhic Thought
Assignment Code: MGG-001/TMA/2024-25
Maximum Marks: 100
Part-A
All Questions are compulsory. Each question carries 10 marks.
1. Give a detailed discussion on the institutionalisation of geography as an academic
discipline in the world.
2. Write in detail about geography as science, geography as social science and geography as
integrative science and discuss its place in the classification of knowledge.
3. Geography is the science of distribution. Elaborate.
4. Explain the human-environment relationships with Determinism, Environmentalism,
Possibilism and Neo-Determinism.
Part-B
All Questions are compulsory. Each question carries 10 marks.
5. Write an essay on the period of integration with the brief of contributions made by
Ferdinand Von Richthofen, Alfred Hettner, Friedrich Ratzel and Vidal de la Blache.
6. Define and differentiate natural and cultural landscapes with suitable examples.
7. Explain the statement “Space is neither absolute, relative nor relational in itself, but it
can become one or all simultaneously depending on the circumstances.”
Part-C
8. Write Short notes on the following. Each question carries 5 marks.
a) Geographical traditions given by William D. Pattison
b) Hartshorne- Schaefer Debate
c) Dualism and dichotomy in geography
d) Chorology and Chorography
e) Natural and Cultural Landscape
f) Territoriality