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Landscape |
An expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view. |
Google definition |
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A few "Gress-isms" |
All places change (morphology-proccesses) All places are unique (activities, material artifacts, issues, cultures and histories) All places use space different creating patterns, that may be mapped. All places and spaces become landscapes |
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Landscape Geography |
A result which not only is of natural forces but of human occupancy and the use of land as well... involves our community |
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Do original landscapes and places change or get modified? |
Yes.. it's the key to understanding any place and past and current importance is big |
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Points of interest for landscapes |
The physical natural look. A functional focus. Economic importance Historic interest Issue importance Human cultural importance |
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What is the focus of any place? |
Educational Problematic A habitat Economic Political Aesthic Historical Symbolic/cultural |
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Geography |
Is the physical stage, human modification, patterns, places, issues, regions.. and can all be mapped |
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What big three create a region? |
Physical landscapes (land) Environment and societies (modification) Human systems (people-signatures) |
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What is sustainability? |
The capacity to the earth's natural systems and human systems to integrate, survive, flourish, and adapt into the very long term future. Try to keep things without running out |
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Ecological footprint |
Tipping point: point of no return |
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What is National Capital? |
How we use all the natural stuff that has been given to us |
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What are Biomes? |
Large global regions characteristics by climate and plant life that create unique biological communities. |
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What are ecosystems? |
Global Biomes are a set of organisms within an area that interact with one another in an environment with resources. |
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Environmental Science |
Interdisciplinary science connecting info and ideas from natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities |
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What is Environmentalism? |
Social movement dedicated to protecting Earth and it's life support systems |
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Geography |
Is a spatial science |
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What are three keys to sustainability? |
1. Solar Energy Dependence 2. Biodiversity preservation 3. Chemical Cycling... maintaining it |
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What two important cycles incorporates Nutrient Cycling? |
Hydrologic and carbon |
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What is Natural Resource? |
Anything that is obtained from the environment meets our needs, creating natural capital that is culturally and technologically available |
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Perpetual Resources are |
Solar energy, air, oceans |
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What are renewable resources? |
They can be replenished. Like forests, grasslands, freshwater and fertile soil |
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What is sustainable yield? |
The highest rate at which we can use natural renewable resources |
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What are nonrenewable resources? |
The basis of all resources. Reuse and recycling of our resources slow or stop environmental degradation and promote sustainability. Like coal, oil |
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What are the four R's? |
Recycle Reuse Reduce Repurpose |
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What is economic growth? |
Increase in output of a nation's goods and services. (Measured in GDP and GNP) |
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What is Gross Domestic Product (GTP) |
Annual market value of all goods and services produced by all businesses, foreign and domestic, operating within a country |
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What is Gross National Product? |
A measure of economic development via goods and services within an outside of a country (foreign investments) |
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Haves |
High GDP and GNP High standard of living Valued and developed resources High Education, literacy Low mortality rates |
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Have Nots |
Low GDP and GNP Low standard living Lacking valued and developed resources Low education and literacy |
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Planetary Management World View |
We are apart from the rest of nature and can manage nature to meet our increasing needs and wants. Because of our ingenuity and technology we will not run out of resources, potential for economic growth is essentially limited. |
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Stewardship Worldview |
Ethical responsibility to be managers, of the earth. Will not run out of resources |
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Environmental Wisdom |
Part of totally dependent of nature. Resources are limited but should not be wasted. |
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What contributes the most to ecological footprints? |
Pollution Deforestation How much water are we consuming |
There are three |
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What is pollution? |
Any harmful "agent" that impacts the health and survival of various species. |
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Main type of pollutants? |
Biodegradable (broken down via natural processes) Non-degredable (toxic cannot be broken down) |
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Degradation of normally renewable natural resources |
Air pollution, climate change, erosion, shrinking forests, decrease wildlife habitats, species extinction, aquifer depletion, water pollution, fish depletion |
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IPAT means what from the Environmental Impact Model |
I=P×A×T P (pollution) times (x) A (affluence) times (x) T (technology) |
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Ecological tipping point |
An often irreversible shift in the behavior of a natural systems |
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Four basic causes of environmental problems? |
Population growth, unsustainable resource use, poverty, environmental cost for market |
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Harmful environmental impact due to |
High levels of consumption High levels of pollution Unnecessary waste of resource |
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Tropical Rainforest Ecosystem |
Rich diverse plant and animal community |
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Atmosphere |
An envelope of gases surrounding earth |
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Troposphere is |
The atmospheric layer contains air we breathe;4-11 miles above earth |
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The stratosphere is |
11-31 miles above Eartg, contains ozone a greenhouse gas filtering out 95% of US rays |
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Hydrosphere |
All water on or near Earth's surface |
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Geosphere |
Crust mantle and core |
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Life support system components |
Hydrosphere Geosphere Biosphere |
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Three factors that sustain life on eartg |
Sun Cycling Gravity |
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Sun radiation is |
Absorbed by ozone and other atmospheric gases Absorbed by earth Reflected by earth Radiated by atmosphere as heat Creates natural greenhouse effect |
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Big 3 in ecosystem |
Producers (plants), consumers (plant eaters, meat eaters), decomposition (bacteria and fungi) |
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Ecology |
How organisms interact with each other and nonliving (solar, water, air,etc) environment |
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Net primary productivity |
Makes and stores energy |
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Biomass |
Dry weight of all organic matter of a given trophic level in a food chain or food Web Decreases at each higher tropic due to heat loss |
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Matter |
Is the form of nutrients |
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Cycles |
Withing and amount ecosystems |
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Hydrological natural renewal process |
Evaporation- from water Precipitation Transpiration-from vegetation |
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