Name the two activities on which the earliest human beings were dependent for their sustenance.
Which sector of economy accounted for the highest percentage of India’s total value of exports in 2003-2004?
Name the two metropolitan cities which are the main polluters of river Ganga before it reaches Varanasi.
Explain the concept of ‘Determinism’ with suitable examples.
The concepts:
(i) This type of interaction between primitive human society and strong forces of nature was termed as environmental determinism.
(ii) At the stage of very low technological development the was presence of a naturalised human, who listened to Nature, was afraid of its fury and worshipped it.
(iii) There is direct dependence of human beings on nature for resources which sustain them. The physical environment for such societies becomes the “Mother Nature”.
Examples: Benda, who lives in the wilds of the Abujh Maad area of central India.