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Ko Phi Phi Don - Southern Thailand

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Had a bad tsunami that killed everyone working and was a popular tourist destination, there was a ton of pollution and garbage

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Dubrovnik Croatia

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was destroyed by a war and can see where the shells fell in the Main Street

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Absolute location

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coordinated on a map

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relative space

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where is that location in reference to other things

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site

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related to absolute location

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Situation

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Why are we a city of a certain population what brought everyone to a certain location

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Why is Toronto bigger than Kingston

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auto industry in Toronto and lumber came from northern Toronto

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San Fransisco

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has multiple identities of place and culture- there is a strong lgbtq communities and is very diverse known for hills street cars and the Golden Gate Bridge

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Vauban, FRIBOURG

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  • Community linked to transit
    • Built for the middle class but the market force drove the price up and this makes it almost 1 million dollars for a attached house
    • The middle class cant afford to live here
      Solar panels give back to owner not renter
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Mongolia picture

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  • The yurts one for tourism and the other is for a family
    • Outside a national park that was for wild horse
    • Some of the grasses are the same as in our grasslands
    • The family has a herd of goats and cows and produce crafts and sell them at the stores
    • Across the mountain there was glamping
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The world conservation Strategy 1980

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Aimed to achieve sustainable development through conservation of living resources

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World commission on environment and development : our Common Future

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1987

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Four element that this class emphasizes

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the interaction of Environmental, social, economic, and cultural sustainability

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Bangkok

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when developed a lot of people were displaced

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Palm Springs sustainability

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Colorado river supports Palm Springs water shortage. They also have one of the largest wind farms

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Tidal power plant :Rance France

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same people who own it own a nuclear power plant

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Anthropogenic Biomes

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Including human interference into the way we classify and understand Biomes (population density, land use, net primary productivity, international geosphere biosphere program)

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Indonesia and

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  • Palm oil plantations attribute to the deforestation
    • Last 20 years
    • Hot spot for bio diversity
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Southern China

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rice terraces used to not destroy environment but is risky and could result in the soil issues Italy faced if not properly managed

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Redwoods

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Redwoods trees are the tallest in the world and there environment is very important but they got put in Germany
-4000 year old life span
- gre throughout what is now North America Europe and Asia
- the last ice age the range shrank to three narrow zones in California

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Svalbard Global Seed Vault

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Norway-Preserves a variety of important plant seeds in a underground facility close to the North Pole the seeds are duplicate samples of seeds held in gene banks globally

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Alternatives to GMO, chemical fertilizers

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Fungi0- rice pants more tolerant to drought salt and cold and allow some plants to withstand temperatures of 50 degrees celsius

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desertification

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the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub human areas.
- caused by human activities and climatic variation
due to ecosystems vulnerable due to exploitation and mis managments

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Politically induced Desertification

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poor people often have rely on marginal, fragile ecosystems for resources
- conflict often dispalces land mangers (Zimbabwe )
or concentrates large populations on marginal land (Sudan)

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Sir Lanka
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belen iquitos
poor no land to grow food on the Amazon
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boto dolphin
gray to pink large brain very smart
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Manaus
where rio negro and amazon meet and is a trade super highway. Paris of the tropics. trade leather. Duty free.
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, CROCODILIAN REPTILES cayman
unique to the amazon competition with humans for living space
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Balbina Dam
The damage the Sabina was one of the greatest errors ever committed in the amazon monkeys died and the river came slick with scum couldn't drink it and the fish died
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balbina
alcoholism and unemployment is high
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drought amazon
the amazon drought there were fires and it was 2005
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satarem
lots of cargo and the main engine of deforestation against soya magnates
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Soya production
soya on profitable when grown in huge quantities and was first exploited in Mato Grosso
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Lithosphere
the solid portion of the earth –Geography - Geomorphology - Hydrology - Soils and Biogeography (Parent Material, soil chemistry, drainage nutrients)
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Atmosphere
the shell aeriform fluid that envelops the Earth Weather and climate, temperature and precipitation, Biogeography)
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Hydrosphere
the entirety of the waters of the earth –Oceans - most of the earth surface –Rivers - drainage processes –Ground Water - Aquifers etc. –Soil water –Lakes (The hydrology, drainage patterns, groundwater, rivers and lakes
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Biosphere
(Biogeography, plants animals, soils, all living things -the totality of living things on the earths surface and below *Geography *-Soils and Biogeography *-Environmental Science *Ecology, Biology, Botany, Medicine,
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Pedosphere
the shell or portion of the earth in which soil forming processes occur. Soil Science (Soils and Biogeography)
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Toposphere
the interface of the pedosphere and the Atmosphere (Landforms and Geomorphology)
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greek philosophers four defined elements
Air - Gaseous sphere (atmosphere) * - Water - watery Sphere (hydrosphere) * - Earth - solid Sphere (lithosphere) * - Fire - the fire sphere (they got this completely wrong!)
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Eduard Suess
Coined in 1875 Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, Biosphere
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Mose Project Venice
designed to protect Venice and the lagoon from tides of up to 3 metres
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Weather
defined as short-run atmospheric conditions that exist for a given time and specific area. effected by - humidity, temperature, cloudiness, precipitation, pressure, winds,
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Climatic Regions
Involves temperature, precipitation, humidity, winds, weather events — Influenced by — Latitude — Global circulation of air masses and ocean currents — Distance from oceans — Landforms (influenced and influences)
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Physiographic Region
a geographic area which has a distinct landscape and landforms that have been shaped by its particular evolutionary history shield -Upland and lowland are portions of plain that are conditionally categorized by their elevation above the sea level
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Soil Zones
Cryosolic Podzolic Luvisolic Chernozemic Mountain Complex
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Vegetation Zones
Forests * Tundra and Polar Desert * Grasslands
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Bioclimatic Frontiers
Plants respond to an array of variables § Critical level of climatic stress beyond which a species cannot survive § Spatially this is referred to as a bioclimatic frontier § e.g. Distribution of ponderosa pine controlled by rainfall § e.g. hardwood trees
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Mutualism - Joshua Tree - Mojave Desert
§ Moth Tegeticula for pollination. § No other animal visits the flowers to transfers the pollen from one flower to another § Moth lays her eggs in the flowers (the larvae hatch, they feed on the yucca seeds)
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Ice Age
migration of some species further south * only some species would be able to move fast enough – Vegetation zone move closer to the equater – tropical zones would retreat to narrower zones – Some species would adapt – some species become extinct – the horse, camel in North America
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Anthropocene
our current era, in which humans have a large impact on environments, but cannot control their complex ecologies
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guatamala dangerous location
around four volcanos
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rational structure of place
density, dispersion and pattern
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interrelations between places
- spatial interaction accessibility and connectivity - spatial diffusion - globalization
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spatial diffusion
the process of dispersion of an idea from the centre or origin to more distant points with which it is directly or indirectly connected
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blue mountains
eucalyptus thrives in the Australian fires
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five key themes of human geography
location, place, region, movement an human environment and intereaction
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cultural processes
cultural production - politics how culture is produced cultural consumption- how culture is taken up interpreted or commodified
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Earth Summit
largest international gathering ever to concentrate on serious environmental issues.
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Carrying Capacity
is the number of organisms that an area can s upport indefinitely.
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Social sustainability
efers to ensuring that basic needs are met, culture is protected, and ways of earning a living are fos- tered.
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economic sustainability
interplay of supply and demand factors. In general, supply-side factors include the availability, cost, and transport of raw mate- rials, as we ll as th e energy, labour, and machinery costs
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precautionary principle
This pr inciple means that, as long as the weight of evidence suggests action is appropriate , a country should take such action to protect its environ- ment.
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ecosystem approach
involves the study and manage- ment of living species (including humans) and their phys- ical environment in a holistic way, including component parts and the linkages among them
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Environmental Signals: Canada's National Environmental Indicator Series 2003
This publication is signifi- cant because it is one of the first governmental initiatives to assess the effectiveness of Canada's environmental policies over the long er term.
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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
is a decision- making tool first employed in Canada in the early 1970s. Federal, provincial, and territorial governments have since enacted legislation requiring environmental reviews of projects that have potential impacts on the environ- ment within their jurisdiction.
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Sustainability
refers to the ability of an ecosystem to :naintain ecological processes and functions, biodiver - sity, and productivity over time
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Worldvi ews
sets of commonly shared values, ideas, and images concerning the nature of reality and the role of humaruty within i
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ommon Steps in the Scientific Method
1. develop a question 2. Develop a hypothesis 3 . Design a controlled experiment 4. Collect data and record it in an organized manner 5. Interpret the data. 6. Draw a conc lu sion from the data. 7. Compare your conclusion with your hypoth esis 8. If you accept your hypoth esis, conduct fu rther tests to support it. 9. If you reject your hypothesis, make additional observations and construct a new hypothesis.
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Father of conservation in Canada
- Sifton earned his place in Canadian history for promotion of immigration to settle in the West - resources were not unlimited _ believed forests should be preserved for practical business terms
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utilitarian justificatio n
onservation of nature states that the environ- ment, ecosystem, habitat, or species provides individuals with direct economic bene fi ts or is directly necessary to their sw'Vival.
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ec ol ogic al jus t ification
conserving nature is based on the knowledge that a species, an ecological com- munity, an ecosystem, or the Ea1th's biosphere provides specific functions necessary to the persistence of our life
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how many anthropogenic biomes" have been identified based on empirical analysis of human interaction with ecosystems
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1) The source of water in Northwest Calgary comes from...
the bow river
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Anthropogenic biomes
provide a framework that integrates human influence with ecological systems, offering a new approach for understanding the terrestrial biosphere.
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2) This gas is naturally absorbed into water molecules making water in nature a weak acid
carbon dioxide
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The measurement of climate involves
long term averages of temperature and precipitation
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A geographer's spatial analysis would entail
examining relationships and patterns across the physical distance between two objects.
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Midlatitude deciduous forests
are found in moist continental climates. include oak, maple and elm trees
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When considering sustainable development, inter-generational equity refers to?
meeting the needs of the present generation without sacrificing the needs of future generations.
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9. Which of the following biome variations is represented in the regions with dry tropical climates?
Thorntree – Tall Grass
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The term "Geography" originates from?
A) From the Ancient Greek philosopher Eratosthenes meaning Geo - (means Earth) - graphein (to write

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