1 Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth I. Hunter Gather Life i. Hunter gatherers use fires to cook their food‚ so it was more edible and easier to swallow and digest. ii. Hunter gatherers used stone tools for most of their chores such as kill animals‚ harvest plants‚ clear brush‚ and start fire to cook food. iii. Kinship groups tried to make the population grow and start an early agricultural movement. II. Personal Reflection Questions
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Chapter 10 Reading Notes Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity: The ecological Approach Miller: Living in the Environment I. Reintroducing Wolves to Yellowstone a. they have died off and have gone extinct. b. they were located in the forests and they have been extinct. c. they were the head of the food chain and becausethey are gone‚ everytihgn is different. d. there have been many problems because of this. e.
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Urban environments - Geography URBANISATION: a process where an increasing proportion of the population lives in towns and cities‚ and there is a reduction of people living in rural areas URBAN REGENERATION: Slum clearance: the removal of old‚ port quality housing Peripheral housing estates: new estates on the edges of towns Regeneration and modernisation: upgrading of existing housing stock CAUSES: Rural urban migration: This is because of push-pull factors: for example people came
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Kaleigh Tinsley AP Human Geography Mr. Lowe 5/28/2013 Globalization has many definitions in the concept of human geography‚ but there’s one that really sums it up perfectly: globalization is the world becoming more connected‚ through trade‚ financial flows‚ the exchange of technology and information‚ and the movement of people. Now‚ globalization affects many places in many ways‚ negatively and positively. One place especially: Africa. We all know Africa is a poor‚ underdeveloped country
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water living species. 8. The species may change parallel to the erosion caused by the human activities or the permanent increase in the water turbidity as an outcome of the dam construction. 9. Discharge of toxic matters (pesticides‚ toxic metals etc.) and their condensation in food chain may affect sensitive animals immediately; all living organisms may expire when the stream becomes unable to recover itself. 10. The water regime may change as a result of destruction of nature‚ unexpected floods
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AP Human Geography Chapter 2 Study Guide Terms: · population density - a measurement of the number of people per given unit of land · arithmetic population density - the population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit area · physiologic population density - the number of people per unit area of arable land · population distribution - description of locations on the Earth’s surface where populations live · dot maps - maps where one dot represents a certain number of a phenomenon
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Chapter 15 Outline * Soil is the relatively thin surface layer of Earth’s crust consisting of minerals and organic matter modified by natural actions like… * Weather * Wind * Water * Organisms * Soil is formed from parent material‚ rock that is slowly broken down or fragmented into smaller particles by… * Weathering Processes Biological * Chemical * Physical * Topography‚ a region’s surface features such as the presence or absence
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Chapter 3: Outline 1. What is MIGRATION? * Migration is inherently geographical. a) Cyclic Movement- involves journeys that begin at our home base and bring us back to it. * Commuting the journey from home to work and again takes from minutes to hours and can involves several modes of transportation. * Seasonal Movement – every autumn hundreds of thousands of travelers leave their home in Canada and the northern parts of the United States. a) It
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Chapter 1 -What is Scale? What is the difference between local and global scale? -What are the three methods of scale and describe them. 1.) 2.) 3.) -What is projection and what are the 4 types of distortion that can result from projection? What are the differences between the Mercator and Peter’s projections? -What does the saying “uniform global landscape” mean? -What does the idea the world is shrinking mean? (4 things) 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) -What is a transnational corporation
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Chapter 25 Process of fossilization · Moving water can suspend sediment – inorganic particles · Moving water fills into still body of water o Sediment flats to the bottom o Forms a layer o More layers form with different compositions on the bottom of the lake or ocean · Living things in the ocean die and get buried in the sediments in the ocean · A lot of weight and pressure pushing down · The organic material is replaced by rocks – mineralization resulting
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