Question

Which of the following describes the perspective of environmental determinism?​ A) A twentieth-century idea that human cultures ate imprinted on the landscape I. different forms of land use and architecture. B) A contemporary ecological view that human activity is affecting the global environment toward a negative outcome. C) A former scientific viewpoint starting that factors within the physical geography of a region shape the local population's culture and behaviors. D) A theory that humans hold the ability to modify Earth's physical geography to meet the resources needs of a society. E) A belief system based on an ideology that humans have dominion over Earth and its natural resources.

Answer 1

Answer: C

Explanation: C) A former scientific viewpoint stating that factors within the physical geography of a region shape the local population's culture and behaviors.

Environmental determinism was a perspective in geography that suggested that the physical environment, such as climate and geography, primarily determined the culture and behaviors of human populations in a given region. This view has been largely discredited in contemporary geography and social sciences due to its oversimplification and lack of accounting for the complexity of human culture and behavior.