Human Geo Unit 1

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Acid Rain

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Conversion of sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides to acids that return to Earth as rain snow or fog

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Aquifers

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subterranean, pours water holding rocks that provide water to wells and springs

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Atmosphere

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blanket of gas surrounding the earth.

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Biodiversity

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The number of species within a specific habitat.

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Chlorofluorocabons

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A gas used as a solvent, a propelant in aerosols, a refrigerant, and in plastics foams and fire extinguishers.

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Circular Pattern

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Short-term, repetative, or cyclical movemens that recur on a regular basis.

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Day Light Savings Time

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Time during which clocks are set one hour or more ahead of standard time to provide more daylight at the end of the working day during late spring, summer, and early fall.

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Deforestation

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the clearing and destruction of forrest for wood consumption, clear land for agricultural use, and expanding settlements.

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Distortion

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The arrangement of something across Earth's surface.

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Environmental Geography

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approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.

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distortion

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A change in the shape of an image resulting from imperfections in an optical system, such as a lens

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Environmental Geography

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is the branch of geography that studies the interactions between humans and the natural world. It looks at how human societies understand and influence the environment.

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Environmental stress

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Pressure on the environment caused by human activities (such as generation of pollution) or by natural events (such as occurrence of a drought).

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equator

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imaginary line that separates the northern and southern hemispheres. 0 degrees latatude

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Eratosthenes

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Greek mathematician and astronomer, who calculated the circumference of the earth by observing the angle of the sun's rays at different places

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glaciation

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to become frozen or covered with ice or glaciers.

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global warming

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an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.

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grid pattern

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A pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines forming squares on a map, a chart, an aerial photograph, or an optical device, used as a reference for locating points.

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Hecataeus

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Ancient Greek historian who lived in Egypt during the reign of Ptolemy I. and authored the significance of Egyptian culture and declared that all ancient culture had its source in Egypt.

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Holocene

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An epoch of the Quaternary Period from the end of the Pleistocene, around 10,000 years ago, to the present. Also known as Postglacial; Recent.

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hydrologic cycle

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Cycle that involves the continuous circulation of water in the Earth-atmosphere system

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Idrisi

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Arab geographer, the most important geographic work of the period. Idrisi divided the earth into seven horizontal climatic zones, each divided vertically into 11 arbitrary sections.

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Immanuel Kant

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(1724-1804) is one of the most influential philosophers in the history of Western philosophy. His contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics have had a profound impact on almost every philosophical movement that followed him.

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interglaciation

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A long period of time (10,000+ years) characterized by climatic conditions associated with minimum glacial extent

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linear pattern

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Linear patterns repeat indefinitely in either direction along a line.

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little ice age

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The period from 1400 to 1800, characterized by expansion of mountain glaciers and cooling of global temperatures,

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local time

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the time in a particular region or area expressed with reference to the meridian passing through it

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Marsh, George Perkins

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The Earth as Modified by Human Action (1874). Although it did not receive much attention in its day, it was rediscovered in the 1930s, and with its thesis that humans have abused the land and must therefore restore it, it has come to be regarded as "the fountainhead of the conservation movement."

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Mass depletions

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loss of diversity from failure to produce new species.

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Mass extensions

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The extinction of one of more species in a relatively short period of geological time, usually as a consequence of a catastrophic global event, a natural disaster,

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Mercator projection

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cylindrical map projection in which the surface of a sphere or spheroid, such as the earth,

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oxygen cycle

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the movement of oxygen within its three main reservoirs: the atmosphere (air), the total content of biological matter within the biosphere (the global sum of all ecosystems), and the lithosphere (Earth's crust). Failures in the oxygen cycle within the hydrosphere (the combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet) can result in the development of hypoxic zones

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Ozone Layer

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a layer in Earth's atmosphere which contains relatively high concentrations of ozone

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Pacific Ring of Fire

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is an area where large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean.

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Pangaea

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was the supercontinent that existed during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras about 250 million years ago, before the component continents were separated into their current configuration

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periphery

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processes that incorporate lower levels of education, salaries and less technology

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Peters Projection

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is one specialization of a configurable equal-area map projection known as the equal-area cylindric or cylindrical equal-area projection

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Pleistocene

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The most resent epoch of the late Cenozoic ice age begining about 1.8 million years ago

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Photosynthesis

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is a process that converts carbon dioxide into organic compounds, especially sugars, using the energy from sunlight

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Physical Site Characteristic

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hardness, smoothness, shape, color, weight, volume,

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ptolemy

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He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology

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radio active waste

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hazardous wast emitting from nuclear power plants

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random pattern

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a pattern with no specific order or logic behind its arrangement

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regionalization

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the process of dividing the Earth, its small areas or other units into regions and a state of such a delineation.

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renewable resources

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resources that can regenerate as they are exploited.

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stationary landfills

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disposable sites for nonhazardous waste that is spread in layers and compacted into small practical volume

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Sauer Carl

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American Geographer One of his best known works was Agricultural Origins and Dispersals (1952). In 1927, Carl Sauer wrote the article "Recent Developments in Cultural Geography," which considered how cultural landscapes are made up of "the forms superimposed on the physical landscape."

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Situation

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external locational attributes

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Soil Erosion

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The wearing away of lands surface by wind and water

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Solar Time

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time kept or measured by the sun; and its basic division, the day, has been recognized and used since the dawn of history.

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Solid Waste

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non liquid non soluble material

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Space

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social relations stretched out

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Spacial Origination

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having a sense of direction while moving around an environment.

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toponym

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Place name

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toxic waste

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hazardous waste causing damage from chemicals

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US Census Bureau

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It also gathers other national demographic and economic data. As part of the United States Department of Commerce, the Census Bureau serves as a leading source of data about America's people and economy

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Vienna Convention for the protection of the ozone layer

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acts as a framework for the international efforts to protect the ozone layer. However, it does not include legally binding reduction goals for the use of CFCs, the main chemical agents causing ozone depletion. These are laid out in the accompanying Montreal Protocol.

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Why of Where

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Explanations for why a spatial pattern occurs

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Wisconsin Glaciation

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The Wisconsin or Wisconsinan was the last major advance of continental glaciers in North America.