Geography 200

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The Meridian of ___, exactly halfway around the world from the prime meridian, is the other dividing line between places east and west of Greenwich and is called the ____ _____ _____.

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180°, international date line

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This person initiated geography's modern era in a series of classic studies on the theme of humankind's role in changing the fact of the earth.

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Alexander von Humboldt

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This person is credited with founding the landscape perspective in American Geography, based on the method of studying the transformation through time of a natural landscape to a cultural landscape.

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Saucer

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geographers recognize 10 to 20 major types of these terrestrial ecosystems. It is a combination of percipitation, temperature, lattitude and elvation produce a great variety of local climates.

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biomes

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the number of plant and animal species present and the variety of genetic materials these organisms contain.
• The most diverse is the tropical rain forest.

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Biodiversity

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on one hand it puts more food on the global table but on the other it may render agriculture more vulnerable to pests and diseases and thus pose long-term risks of famine. It has reduced the natural diversity of crop varieties that allows nature and farmer to turn to alternatives when adversity strikes. By tearing down rain forests we may be destroying foods and medicines that could be used.

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The Green Revolution

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○ Baron Jean Baptiste Fourier established in 1827
In the atmosphere, natural greenhouse gases such as CO2 and water vapor make earth habitable by trapping heat from sunlight. Concern over global warming focuses on human-made sources of green house gases, which trap abnormal amounts of heat.

Global warming appear to be greatest at the higher lattitudes.

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Green house effect

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○ Humans took a large step with domestication, the controlled breeding and cultivation of plants and animals.

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the agricultural revolution

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○ Began in europe around 1700 A.D.
○ The new pattern of human land relations brought about by technology made several factors possible:
§ Western europe had the economic capital necessary for experimentation, innovation and risk. Much of the money came from lucrative trade in gold and slaves undertaken intially in the spanish and portugese empires after 1400.
§ Second, europe, prior to 1500, had made great improvements to their equipment such as heavy plows and with more intensive and sustainable use of farmland. Crops increased and so did population
§ Third, population growth itself…promotes urbanization more city folk than rural

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The Industrial Revolution

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Africa:
○ was an act of parliament created under the apartheid government of South Africa on 27th April 1950. The act assigned racial groups to different residential and business sections in urban areas in a system of urban apartheid. An effect of the law was to exclude non-Whites from living in the most developed areas, which were restricted to Whites (e.g., Sea Point). It caused many non-Whites to have to commute large distances from their homes in order to be able to work. The law led to non-Whites being forcibly removed for living in the "wrong" areas.

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Group areas act 1950

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Africa.
Act where Whites and blacks cannot get married
A. Group Areas Act
B. Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act
C. Immorality Act
D. Reservation of Separate Amnetites Act
E. Bantu Education Act

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• Prohibition of mixed marriages act -1949

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Africa
Act where No sexual relations with any other race other than your own

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Immorality act 1950

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Africa
Act where Beaches, restaurants, trains, buses, etc., were segregated

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• Reservation of Separate Amenities Act - 1953

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Africa
Act where Racial segregation in schools. Made it so that the curriculum in black schools were much lower and racial..The government controlled the curriculum of the segregated schools and the books used regularly included sentences such as "This kaffer has stolen a knife, this kaffer is lazy"

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Bantu Education Act 1953

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• Lack of basic services
• Substandard housing or illegal and inadequate building structures
• Overcrowding and high density
• Unhealthy living conditions and hazardous locations
• Insecure tenure; irregular or informal settlements
• Poverty and social exclusion
• Minimum settlement size
These are characteristics of a ...

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slum

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What does each element indicate about geography's concern with space, place or environment?
Spatial Terms -
Places and Regions-
Physical Systems
Human Systems
Environment and Society
Uses of Geography

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Spatial Terms - relationships between people, places, and environments by mapping info about them into a spacial context
Places and regions- identities and lives of individuals and peoples are rooted in particular places and in those human constructs called regions.
Physical Systems - physical processes shape earth's surface and interact with plant and animal life to create, sustain, and modify ecosystems
Human systems - people are central to geography; human activities, settlements, and structures help shape earth's surface, and humans compete for control of earth's surface.
Environment and Society - the physical environment is influenced by the ways in which human societies value and use earth's physical features and processes.
Uses of Geography - knowledge of geography enables people to develop an understanding of the relationships between people. Places, and environments over time - that is, of earth as it was, is and might be.