Competency 1.3 - identify the ways natural processes and human-environment interactions shape cultural features

Question 1

culture

Answer 1

the way of life (language, technology, political and economic institutions, religion, work ethics, values, education, art, music, etc) that characterizes a group of people

Question 2

cultural ecology

Answer 2

the study of culture and Earth interactions

Question 3

political ecology

Answer 3

a multi-disciplinary study of how social and environmental changr occurs in the contenxt of power relations, social structures, economic issues, and human-environment interactions

Question 4

environmental determinism

Answer 4

the view that the environment can overpower people and determine their culture and the direction/extent of their development; widely considered a “not politically correct” belief

Question 5

human-cultural determinism

Answer 5

the cirw that culture overpowers and shapes the environment

Question 6

human-environment interaction

Answer 6

the idea that there is a cycle of interaction between humans and the environment that is complex and tautological; the environemt shapes people and people shape the environment