Question

"Human Geography is the synthetic study of relationship between human societies and earth's surface." Who among the following geographers has given this definition? 

Options

• Ellen C. Semple 

• Ratzel 

• George B. Cressey 

• Paul Vidal de la Blache

Answer 1

Ratzel 

Explanation:

Friedrich Ratzel's book "Anthropogeography" published in 1882 was the first to make Human Geography a recognised academic field. In the words of Ratzel, "synthetic study of the relationship between human societies and the Earth's surface" is what human geography represents.