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Midterm 1 Flashcards

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Ko Phi Phi Don - Southern Thailand

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Had a bad tsunami that killed everyone working and was a popular tourist destination, there was a ton of pollution and garbage

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Dubrovnik Croatia

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was destroyed by a war and can see where the shells fell in the Main Street

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Absolute location

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coordinated on a map

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relative space

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where is that location in reference to other things

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site

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related to absolute location

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Situation

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Why are we a city of a certain population what brought everyone to a certain location

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Why is Toronto bigger than Kingston

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auto industry in Toronto and lumber came from northern Toronto

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San Fransisco

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has multiple identities of place and culture- there is a strong lgbtq communities and is very diverse known for hills street cars and the Golden Gate Bridge

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Vauban, FRIBOURG

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  • Community linked to transit
    • Built for the middle class but the market force drove the price up and this makes it almost 1 million dollars for a attached house
    • The middle class cant afford to live here
      Solar panels give back to owner not renter
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10
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Mongolia picture

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  • The yurts one for tourism and the other is for a family
    • Outside a national park that was for wild horse
    • Some of the grasses are the same as in our grasslands
    • The family has a herd of goats and cows and produce crafts and sell them at the stores
    • Across the mountain there was glamping
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The world conservation Strategy 1980

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Aimed to achieve sustainable development through conservation of living resources

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World commission on environment and development : our Common Future

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1987

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13
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Four element that this class emphasizes

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the interaction of Environmental, social, economic, and cultural sustainability

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14
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Bangkok

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when developed a lot of people were displaced

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15
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Palm Springs sustainability

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Colorado river supports Palm Springs water shortage. They also have one of the largest wind farms

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16
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Tidal power plant :Rance France

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same people who own it own a nuclear power plant

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17
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Anthropogenic Biomes

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Including human interference into the way we classify and understand Biomes (population density, land use, net primary productivity, international geosphere biosphere program)

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18
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Indonesia and

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  • Palm oil plantations attribute to the deforestation
    • Last 20 years
    • Hot spot for bio diversity
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Southern China

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rice terraces used to not destroy environment but is risky and could result in the soil issues Italy faced if not properly managed

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Redwoods

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Redwoods trees are the tallest in the world and there environment is very important but they got put in Germany
-4000 year old life span
- gre throughout what is now North America Europe and Asia
- the last ice age the range shrank to three narrow zones in California

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21
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault

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Norway-Preserves a variety of important plant seeds in a underground facility close to the North Pole the seeds are duplicate samples of seeds held in gene banks globally

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Alternatives to GMO, chemical fertilizers

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Fungi0- rice pants more tolerant to drought salt and cold and allow some plants to withstand temperatures of 50 degrees celsius

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23
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desertification

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the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub human areas.
- caused by human activities and climatic variation
due to ecosystems vulnerable due to exploitation and mis managments

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24
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Politically induced Desertification

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poor people often have rely on marginal, fragile ecosystems for resources
- conflict often dispalces land mangers (Zimbabwe )
or concentrates large populations on marginal land (Sudan)

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25
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Sir Lanka

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26
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belen iquitos

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poor no land to grow food on the Amazon

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27
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boto dolphin

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gray to pink large brain very smart

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28
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Manaus

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where rio negro and amazon meet and is a trade super highway. Paris of the tropics. trade leather. Duty free.

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, CROCODILIAN REPTILES cayman

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unique to the amazon competition with humans for living space

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30
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Balbina Dam

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The damage the Sabina was one of the greatest errors ever committed in the amazon monkeys died and the river came slick with scum couldn’t drink it and the fish died

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balbina

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alcoholism and unemployment is high

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32
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drought amazon

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the amazon drought there were fires and it was 2005

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33
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satarem

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lots of cargo and the main engine of deforestation against soya magnates

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34
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Soya production

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soya on profitable when grown in huge quantities and was first exploited in Mato Grosso

35
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Lithosphere

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the solid portion of the earth
–Geography
- Geomorphology
- Hydrology
- Soils and Biogeography
(Parent Material, soil chemistry, drainage
nutrients)

36
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Atmosphere

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the shell aeriform fluid that envelops the Earth
Weather and climate, temperature and
precipitation, Biogeography)

37
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Hydrosphere

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the entirety of the waters of the earth
–Oceans - most of the earth surface
–Rivers - drainage processes
–Ground Water - Aquifers etc.
–Soil water
–Lakes
(The hydrology, drainage patterns,
groundwater, rivers and lakes

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Biosphere

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(Biogeography, plants animals, soils, all living
things
-the totality of living things on the earths surface and
below
*Geography
*-Soils and Biogeography
*-Environmental Science
*Ecology, Biology, Botany, Medicine,

39
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Pedosphere

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the shell or portion of the earth in which soil forming
processes occur. Soil Science
(Soils and Biogeography)

40
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Toposphere

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the interface of the pedosphere and the Atmosphere
(Landforms and Geomorphology)

41
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greek philosophers four defined elements

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Air - Gaseous sphere (atmosphere)
* - Water - watery Sphere (hydrosphere)
* - Earth - solid Sphere (lithosphere)
* - Fire - the fire sphere (they got this completely wrong!)

42
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Eduard Suess

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Coined in 1875 Lithosphere,
Hydrosphere, Biosphere

43
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Mose Project
Venice

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designed to protect Venice and the lagoon from tides of up to 3 metres

44
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Weather

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defined as short-run atmospheric
conditions that exist for a given time and specific area. effected by - humidity, temperature, cloudiness, precipitation, pressure, winds,

45
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Climatic Regions

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Involves temperature,
precipitation, humidity,
winds, weather events
— Influenced by
— Latitude
— Global circulation of air masses
and ocean currents
— Distance from oceans
— Landforms (influenced and
influences)

46
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Physiographic Region

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a geographic area which has a distinct landscape and landforms that have been shaped by its particular evolutionary history
shield -Upland and lowland are portions of plain that are conditionally categorized by their elevation above the sea level

47
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Soil Zones

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Cryosolic
Podzolic
Luvisolic
Chernozemic
Mountain Complex

47
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Vegetation Zones

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Forests
* Tundra and
Polar Desert
* Grasslands

48
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Bioclimatic Frontiers

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Plants respond to an array of variables
§ Critical level of climatic stress beyond which a species cannot
survive
§ Spatially this is referred to as a bioclimatic frontier
§ e.g. Distribution of ponderosa pine controlled by rainfall
§ e.g. hardwood trees

49
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Mutualism - Joshua
Tree - Mojave Desert

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§ Moth Tegeticula for
pollination.
§ No other animal visits the
flowers to transfers the pollen
from one flower to another
§ Moth lays her eggs in the
flowers (the larvae hatch,
they feed on the yucca seeds)

50
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Ice Age

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migration of some species further
south
* only some species would be able to
move fast enough
– Vegetation zone move closer to the
equater
– tropical zones would retreat to
narrower zones
– Some species would adapt
– some species become extinct
– the horse, camel in North
America

51
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Anthropocene

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our current era,
in which humans have a large
impact on environments, but
cannot control their complex
ecologies

52
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guatamala dangerous location

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around four volcanos

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54
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rational structure of place

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density, dispersion and pattern

55
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interrelations between places

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  • spatial interaction accessibility and connectivity
  • spatial diffusion
  • globalization
56
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spatial diffusion

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the process of dispersion of an idea from the centre or origin to more distant points with which it is directly or indirectly connected

57
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blue mountains

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eucalyptus thrives in the Australian fires

58
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five key themes of human geography

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location, place, region, movement an human environment and intereaction

59
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cultural processes

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cultural production - politics how culture is produced
cultural consumption- how culture is taken up interpreted or commodified

60
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Earth Summit

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largest international gathering ever to concentrate on
serious environmental issues.

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Carrying Capacity

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is the number of organisms that an area can s upport indefinitely.

62
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Social
sustainability

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efers to ensuring that basic needs are met,
culture is protected, and ways of earning a living are fos-
tered.

63
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economic sustainability

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interplay of
supply and demand factors. In general, supply-side factors
include the availability, cost, and transport of raw mate-
rials, as we ll as th e energy, labour, and machinery costs

64
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precautionary principle

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This pr inciple means that, as long as
the weight of evidence suggests action is appropriate , a
country should take such action to protect its environ-
ment.

65
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ecosystem approach

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involves the study and manage-
ment of living species (including humans) and their phys-
ical environment in a holistic way, including component
parts and the linkages among them

66
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Environmental
Signals: Canada’s National Environmental Indicator
Series 2003

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This publication is signifi-
cant because it is one of the first governmental initiatives to
assess the effectiveness of Canada’s environmental policies
over the long er term.

67
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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

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is a decision-
making tool first employed in Canada in the early 1970s.
Federal, provincial, and territorial governments have
since enacted legislation requiring environmental reviews
of projects that have potential impacts on the environ-
ment within their jurisdiction.

68
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Sustainability

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refers to the ability of an ecosystem to
:naintain ecological processes and functions, biodiver -
sity, and productivity over time

69
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Worldvi ews

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sets of commonly shared values, ideas,
and images concerning the nature of reality and the
role of humaruty within i

70
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ommon Steps in the Scientific Method

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  1. develop a question
  2. Develop a hypothesis
    3 . Design a controlled experiment
  3. Collect data and record it in an organized manner
  4. Interpret the data.
  5. Draw a conc lu sion from the data.
  6. Compare your conclusion with your hypoth esis
  7. If you accept your hypoth esis, conduct fu rther tests to
    support it.
  8. If you reject your hypothesis, make additional
    observations and construct a new hypothesis.
71
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Father of conservation in Canada

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  • Sifton earned his place in Canadian history for promotion of immigration to settle in the West
  • resources were not unlimited
    _ believed forests should be preserved for practical business terms
72
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utilitarian justificatio n

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onservation of nature states that the environ-
ment, ecosystem, habitat, or species provides individuals
with direct economic bene fi ts or is directly necessary to
their sw’Vival.

73
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ec ol ogic al jus t ification

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conserving nature is
based on the knowledge that a species, an ecological com-
munity, an ecosystem, or the Ea1th’s biosphere provides
specific functions necessary to the persistence of our life

74
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how many anthropogenic biomes” have been identified based on empirical analysis of human interaction with ecosystems

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18

75
Q

1) The source of water in Northwest Calgary comes from…

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the bow river

75
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Anthropogenic biomes

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provide a framework that integrates human influence with ecological systems, offering a new approach for understanding the terrestrial biosphere.

76
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2) This gas is naturally absorbed into water molecules making water in nature a weak acid

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carbon dioxide

77
Q

The measurement of climate involves

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long term averages of temperature and precipitation

78
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A geographer’s spatial analysis would entail

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examining relationships and patterns across the physical distance between two objects.

79
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Midlatitude deciduous forests

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are found in moist continental climates.
include oak, maple and elm trees

80
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When considering sustainable development, inter-generational equity refers to?

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meeting the needs of the present generation without sacrificing the needs of future generations.

81
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  1. Which of the following biome variations is represented in the regions with dry tropical climates?
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Thorntree – Tall Grass

82
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The term “Geography” originates from?

A

A) From the Ancient Greek philosopher Eratosthenes meaning Geo - (means Earth) - graphein (to write

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