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15 Cards in this Set
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Political Ecology |
studies the relationships between political, economic and social factors with environmental issues and changes. |
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National Park Service |
an agency that preserves the country's nature, and also managing all the national parks in the US. |
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Fall line |
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Appalachians |
are the eroded mountains from Canada to Alabama that separate the eastern seaboard from the interior. |
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Appalachia |
a cultural region in the eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York to northern Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. |
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Central Lowlands |
a vast area stretching from New York state to central Texas and north to Canada. It is often called the nation's breadbasket because of its soil and fossil fuels. |
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Great Plains |
a broad expanse of flat land that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie states and east of the Rocky Mountains in the US and Canada. |
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Urban industrial core |
the transportation and trade that welded together New England, the Mid-Atlantic region and the big cities of the Great Lakes and inland rivers that attracted people to jobs in a variety of "smokestack" industries. |
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Attitudes to energy use |
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The Southwest |
consists of New Mexico, Arizona and parts of surrounding states with a similar climate and culture. Has unusually strong Spanish-Mexican and Native American communities. Cattle- and sheep-ranching are important for the economy. |
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Native American cultural regions |
In the woodland eastern half of the country were areas now known as the northeastern and southeastern maize regions. And the Great Plains were they hunted bisons and took a nomadic lifestyle. Indians in the Southwest relied mostly on irrigated agriculture. |
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Northwest coastal cultures |
Northwests lived in coastal villages and were well supplied with wild plants and game so they didn't need to farm. Fishing for salmon represented their primary economic activity, but saltwater fishing and whaling were also important.
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Environmental Protection Agency |
an agency that was created to take responsibility for monitoring and protecting America's natural environment. Enforced the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Endangered Species Act, Toxic Substances Act and the Superfund statute. |
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Hawaiians |
they gathered food from the tropical forests, terraced mountain sides and irrigated their fields to grow crops. Expert open-sea fishermen from outrigger canoes, they also built semicircular fish ponds along the seashore. P., A., and RF owned land and common people lived in small areas with limited rights to fish, water, wood, wild foods and farming. |
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Attitudes toward land |
Group possession and communal use of land were most common. Almost all native groups had a concept of their own territory that was theirs. They deified nature, but some also exploited their environment until it became depleted and others over-hunted until some animals became extinct. |
