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1
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Who coined term geography? What is the definition of geography

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  • Eratostheres

- The study of where things are found on earth’s surface and the reason for the locations

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What are the two key questions asked by geographers

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  • Where are people and activities found on earth

- Why are they found there

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Cartography

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The science of mapmaking

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Two purposes that maps serve

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  • As reference tool (Where things are, absolute and relative location)
  • As a communications tool (shows the distribution of human activities or physical features
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How did maps/geography develop because of china

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-Pei Xiu made elaborate map of China-> China better mapped

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How did maps/geography develop because of Muslims

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  • Muhammad al-Idrisi built on ptolemy’s map

- Prepared/made world map and geography text

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How did maps/geography develop because of Age of Discovery

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  • Explorers sailed across the world to new lands and cartographers used their info to make more accurate maps
  • Martin Waldseemuller-> first map with “America” as label
  • Ortelius-> created 1st modern atlas
  • Varenius-> made Geographia Generalis, which was standard written work on systematic geography for 100 years
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Map scale

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The relationship of a feature’s (thing’s) size on a map compared to its actual size on Earth

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Describe the three ways in whcih map scale can presented/expressed

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  • Ratio or fraction: Shows ratio between distances on the map and the Earth’s surface in numbers (1: 24,000, map:earth)
  • Written scale: shows relationship in words (1 inch equals 1 mile, map to world)
  • Graphic scale- bar line marked to show distance on earth’s surfac. use ruler to measure the bar line and compare to map
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What is advantage of map with large scale (small portion of earth)

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  • Map is more detailed

- Big maps have to leave out details bc not enough space

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What advantage does a small scale map (globe) have

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-Can show processes and trends that affect everyone/a lot of people

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What can be distorted when geographers convert the round earth to a flat map with projection

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  • Shape: Become more elongated or squat
  • Distance: Between 2 pts change
  • Relative size: One area may appear larger than another when its actually smaller in reality
  • Direction: can be distorted
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Robinson

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  • Curved and globe-like
  • Displays info across oceans well
  • Solves some problems with mercator
  • Everything (shape, size, distance, direction) is a little distorted
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Mercator

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  • Flat map
  • Shape distorted very little
  • Direction consistent
  • Meridians and parallels meet at right angles like irl
  • Relative size is very distorted, especially towards the poles
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What is a geographic grid

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A system of imaginary arcs drawn in a grid pattern on Earth’s surface

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Longitude-> name of lines, center, how other lines are measure

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  • Meridians
  • Prime meridian-> 0 degrees
  • On opposite side of globe is 180 degrees and between 180 and 0 the lines are measured with east or west if they are east or west of prime meridian
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Latitude->name of lines, center, how other lines are measure

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  • Parallel
  • Equator-0 degrees
  • 90-90 n/s of equator
  • The 90s represent north and south poles
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How many time zones are there

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24

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What is the international date line

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  • Kind of follows 180 degrees

- You turn the clock + 24 hrs if you go east (to America) and -24 hrs if you go west (to China)

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What is geographic information science (GIScience) How does it help geographer

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  • Involves development and analysis of data about Earth acquired through satellite and other electronic information technologies
  • Allows geographers to access info about Earth
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Remote sensing def

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Getting data about Earth’s surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or from other long-distance methods

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Global positioning system (GPS)

Def

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System that accurately determines the precise position of something on earth

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Global positioning system (GPS)

How does it work

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  • Satellites are placed into orbits
  • Tracking stations monitor and control the satellites
  • A reciever that can locate 4+ satellites figures out the distance to each and uses that info to pinpoint its own location and yours
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Global positioning system (GPS)

Most commonly used for

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Navigation: Planes, ships, driving, monitoring delivery, getting emergency help, cell phones, scocial media

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GIS

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  • Geographic information system
  • Stores layers of data
  • Stores and manages geographic data
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What kind of info is stored in GIS

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  • Roads
  • Bodies of water
  • Names of place
  • Cities
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GIS: Mashup

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-Overlaying layers
-Mixing tow pieces of data so you can see both at same time
EX: seeing roads and state boundaries

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What is dif between place and location

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Place: A specific point on earth distinguished by a particular characteristic
Location: the position that something occupies on earth’s surface
-Place is a section of earth, location is where it is

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Three ways to identify location

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  • Place name
  • Site
  • Situation
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Toponym

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The name given to a place on Earth

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For ways in which a place can receive its name

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Named after:

  • A person
  • Associated with religion
  • Derived from ancient history
  • May indicate the origin of its settlers
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Site def

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The physical character of a place

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33
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Five examples of site characteristics

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  • Climate
  • Water sources
  • Topography
  • Soil
  • Vegetation
  • latitude
  • Elevation
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What can humans do to a site and example

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Human actions can modify the characteristics of a site

-New york and Tokyo have been expanded with landfilling

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Situation def

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The location of a place relative to other places

36
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The two reasons situation is important in indicating a location

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  • Finding an unfamiliar place

- Understanding its importance

37
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What is a region

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An area of Earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics

38
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What two scales is region applied to

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  • Several neighboring countries that share important features such as those in Latin America (spanning political states/areas)
  • Many localities within a country, such as those in Southern California (confined within one state)
39
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How did Carl Sauer define the cultural landscape

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  • An area fashion from nature from a cultural group
  • A region that derives its unified character through cultural landscape- a combo of cultural, religious, physical featues
40
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Formal region

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  • AKA uniform or homogenus
  • An area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics
  • Characteristic can be predominant rather than universal
  • Language
  • Economic
  • Climate
41
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Functional region

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  • AKA nodal (focus)
  • An area organized around a node or focal point. Has a central focus (node) and diminished in importance outward
  • Reception of TV station (strongest closest to it)
  • Circulation of Newspaper
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Vernacular region

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  • AKA perceptual region
  • An area that people believe exists as a part of their culural identity
  • Mental map
  • definition of south in USA
43
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What is a mental map

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An internal representation of a portion of earths surface

-Impressions, where, whats there

44
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Two meaning of culture that geographers study

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  • To care about: Why the customary ideas, beliefs, values of a people produce distinctive culture in a place. V. important cultural values come from language, ethnicity, and religion
  • To care of: Production of material wealth (food, clothing, shelter, humans need to survive and thrive)
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Things included in a groups culture

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  • Ideas
  • Beliefs
  • Values
  • Language
  • religion
  • food
  • Clothing
  • Shelter
  • Art
  • Economics
46
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In order to find out why a region has distinct features (like a high cancer rate) what do geographers do

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Try to identify cultural,economic, and environmental factors that display similar spatial distributions
-Great lakes= more cancer bc more factories

47
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Three concepts to explain why similarities exits among places and regions and not coincidence

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  • Scale
  • Space
  • Connections
48
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Geographic scale

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The relationship between the portion earth being studied and earth as a whole

49
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At what scales do geographers explore the world

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Global

50
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What is globalization and what does it do to the scale of the world

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  • A force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope
  • Scale of the world is shrinking
51
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How is recession of 2008 an example of globalization

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The economy of the entire world recessed, not just one country

52
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What is meant by a “uniform global landscape”

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  • Globalization of cultural beliefs and forms, especially religion and language
  • Geographers observe that increasingly uniform cultural preferences produce uniform “global” landscapes of material artifacts and of cultural values
53
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How has the communications revolution both promoted globalization while at the same time preserving cultural diversity

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  • TV used to play channels with one set of cultural vales

- ppl can now choose from 100s of programs in dif languages

54
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Space

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The physical gap or interval between two objects

55
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Distribution

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The arrangement of a feature in space

56
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Density

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The frequency with which something occurs in space

57
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What two measures determine an areas density

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The number of a feature and the land area

58
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Concentration

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The extent of features spread over space

59
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What are the opposite ends of spectrum for concentration

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Clustered: Close together
Dispersed: Far apart

60
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Why do geographers use concentration

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To describe changes in distribution

61
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What is pattern

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The geometric arrangement of objects in space

-Some features are organized in a geometric patter, while others are distributed irregularly

62
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Why are many American cities arranged in a square or rectangular pattern

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  • To form square or rectangular blocks

- AkA grid pattern

63
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Behavioral geography

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-Emphasizes the importance of understanding the psychological basis for individual human actions

64
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Humanistic geography

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-Emphasizes the different ways individuals perceive their surrounding environment

65
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-Poststructuralist biology

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-Emphasizes the need to understand multiple perspectives regarding space

66
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Diffusion

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The process by which a characteristic spreads across space

67
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Hearth

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A place from which an innovation originates

68
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Relocation diffusion

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The spread of an idea through the physical movement of people from place to place

69
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Expansion diffusion

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The spread of feature from one place to another in an additive process

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Hierarchical diffusion

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The spread of an ideal from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places

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Contagious diffusion

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The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population

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Stimulus diffusion

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The spread of an underlying principal even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse

73
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What did most interaction require in the past

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The physical movement of settlers, explorer, and plundered from one place to another

74
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Distance decay

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When people get farther away from each other and contact diminishes with increasing distance

75
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Global culture and economy are increasingly centered around 3 core (hearth) regions

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North america, west europe, japan

76
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Why is North america, west europe, japan culture hearths

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  • They have a large % of the world’s advanced tech, capital to invest in new activities, wealth to purchase goods and services
  • Acess to tech
77
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What areas of the world are on the outer edge, or periphery

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-Africa, Asia, latin america

78
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Renewable resources

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Produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed by humans
-Will regrow within one’s lifetime

79
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Nonrenewable resources

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Consumed by humans more rapidly than it is produced in nature

80
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Sustainability

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The use of Earth’s renewable and nonrenewable resources in ways that ensure resources availability in the future

81
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Environmental determinism

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The physical environment determines social development

  • Based on studying natural sciences
  • Mid 1700s
  • Human culture is at the mercy of the physical environment and we can do little to change it
82
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How do geographers feel to environmental determinsim

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They reject in in favor of possibilitism

83
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Environmental possibilism

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The physical environment may limit some human actions but people have the ability to adjust to their environment

84
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Two major issues of sustainability and resourves

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  • Humans deplete nonrenewable resources

- Humans destroyed otherwise renewable resources through pollution of air, water, and soil

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