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Cultural Adaptation

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Patterns of behavior that enable a culture to cope with its surroundings or when an individual modifies his/her customs to fit in to a particular culture.

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Cultural Landscape

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The visible features of an area of land as modified by humans showing the imprint of a cultural group.

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Human-Environment Interaction

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The geographic theme that explores how people use, adapt to, and modify the environment.

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What is one of the five themes of geography?

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Human-environment interaction is one of the five themes of geography.

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True or False ; Under the theme of human-environment interaction, doctors investigate how people use, adapt to, and modify the environment.

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False; Geographers investigate

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What takes place at all spatial scales from the local to the global.

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Human-Environment Interaction

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Global problems such as ____________,___________,____________, and resource depletion can be investigated through the geographic theme of human-environment interaction.

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Climate Change, Deforestation, Pollution,

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Natural resources

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Any physical environmental item that people perceive to be useful.

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renewable natural resources

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natural resources that Earth or people can replace

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non-renewable natural resources

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Natural resources that cannot be replaced in a relatively short period of time.

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fossil fuels

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a natural source that stores potential energy and that is formed from the remains of once living organisms

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mineral resources

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natural resources found on and in the Earth's crust that include metals, nonmetals, and fuels

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per capita

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by each person equally

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Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

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the total market value of all final goods and services produced within a country during a period of time.

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Humans depend on the ______ through the use of natural resources.

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Earth

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Natural resources are useful materials found where on the earth?

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Natural resources are useful materials found on and under the earth's surface.

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True or false; Natural resources are evenly distributed across the earth. Some countries like the United States have a low number of natural resources and other countries also have a low number.

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False; Natural resources are unevenly distributed across the earth. Some countries like the United States have a great number of natural resources and other countries have few.

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The pace of resource use and extraction has been increasing or decreasing since the Industrial Revolution in the 1800's?

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Increasing

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extraction

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the removal of natural resources from the environment

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Consumption

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the use of natural resources or products

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life cycle of a product

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the stages a product goes through from extraction of resources to disposal

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Using natural resources can have many good or bad effects on the environment?

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Bad effects

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True or false?;The extraction and utilization of one natural resource often occurs at the expense of another natural resource.

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True

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Does it takes only one natural resource to make most products?

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No it takes multiple.

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True or False?; The earth and its resources are affected throughout the life cycle of humans?

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False; its affected by the life cycle of products.

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Resource consumption is even or uneven on Earth? Twenty percent of the population of Earth uses or doesn't use eighty percent of the resources?

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1)uneven 2) uses

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energy

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usable power that comes from heat, electricity, motion, etc.

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nuclear energy

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power created by splitting atoms apart of combining atoms together

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uranium

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a fuel used to create nuclear energy

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biomass

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renewable energy from plants and animals

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geothermal energy

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heat from within the Earth

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hydropower

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energy created using water

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greenhouses gases

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chemical compounds found in the Earth's atmosphere

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True or False?; Energy is usable power that comes from heat, electricity, motion, etc.

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True

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Change the word Energy creation and utilization is a -bad- part of life on Earth.

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vital

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Is this correct? Energy can be created from -neither- non-renewable and renewable natural resources.

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No; energy can be created from both non-renewable and renewable natural resources.

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True or False?; Non-renewable sources of energy are those that we use up and can recreate. They include oil, natural gas, and coal.

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True

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Fix it nonrenewable sources of energy are those that can be easily replaced such as biomass, solar power, and wind power.

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Renewable sources

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Do all sources of energy have both advantages and disadvantages?

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Yes all do.

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True or false?; A major advantage of using fossil fuels to create energy in that they emit greenhouse gases which contribute to climate change.

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False its a disadvantage

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green product

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a good that either has qualities that will protect the environment or has used natural ingredients instead of artificial ingredients

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Can technology can both help and harm the environment?

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Yes it can.

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True or False?; Advances in technology have led to large scale modifications of the environment such as mountaintop removal.

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True

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True or False?; Advances in technology have also led to solutions to environmental problems such as using the sun and wind to generate electricity.

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True

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conflict

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a disagreement, struggle or clash for power, property, resources, etc.

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prevalence

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being widespread or common

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refugee

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someone who has been forced to leave a country because of war or religious or political reasons

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historical perspective

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a point of view that considers accounts of past events, the circumstances surrounding those events at the time, and their causes and consequences

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economic perspective

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a point of view that considers how scarcity influences the choices people and societies make in the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services

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political perspective

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a point of view that considers power, authority, rules and laws, government and citizenship

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geographic perspective

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a point of view that considers the earth and how humans interact with it

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sociological perspective

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a point of view that considers human societies and how humans organize in groups

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degradation

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to decline to a lower condition, quality or level

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treaty

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a signed agreement between two or more countries

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Environmental factors are often _________ connected to conflict.

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Directly

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Scarce natural resources like ______, ________ or ____________ are often the causes of conflict.

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Water, minerals, and fertile land.

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True or False?; Conflicts are often caused by a variety of factors including economic, political, social/cultural, historical and geographic reasons.

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True

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Using a _________of social science perspectives can help us better understand and resolve conflict.

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Variety

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Some natural resources are vital to the military. Political factors may result in ______________becoming targets during conflict.

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Natural resources

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The __________ can also be the victim of a conflict and incur damage and degradation.

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Environment

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