Ecology And Subsistence

Question 0

Cultural ecology

Answer 0

The way people use their culture to adapt to particular environments

Question 1

Ecology

Answer 1

The relationship of an organism to other elements within it’s environment

Question 2

Physical environment

Answer 2

World people experience through their senses

Question 3

Cultural environment

Answer 3

Represents peoples cultural classification of their physical environment. Reflects adaptive needs and cultural values

Question 4

Subsistence strategies

Answer 4

Strategies that human groups use to exploit their environment for material necessities

Question 5

Hunting and gathering

Answer 5

SS; adaptive food getting strategy based on the collection of wild plants and hunting of wild animals

Question 6

Horticulture

Answer 6

SS; food is gardened with a hoe or digging stick

Question 7

Pastoralism

Answer 7

SS; herding of domesticated animals such as cattle sheep and goats

Question 8

Agriculture

Answer 8

SS; use of plow irrigation and sometimes terracing; intensive cultivation of permanent land holdings; most of worlds peasant societies

Question 9

Industrialism

Answer 9

SS; intensive mechanized food production, factory based material production, and elaborate distribution networks