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Ecological Sabotage

Vast area vulnerable to overfishing and pollution despite safety measures

Geography

integrative discipline that brings together physical and human dimensions.

Physical geography

study of natural processes and distribution of features in environment

Human geography

Study of the events and processes that’ve shaped how humans understand, use, and alter Earth

Spatial perspective

Where something occurs

Ecological perspective

Relationships between living things and their environments

Location

Position that a point or object occupies on Earth

Absolute Location

Exact location of an object

Relative Location

Description of where a place is in relation to other places or features

Place

Location on Earth distinguished by physical and human characteristics

Sense of place

Emotions attached to an area based on personal experiences

Site

Place’s absolute location

Situation

place’s location in relation to other places or surrounding features

mental maps

internalized representations of portions of Earth’s surface

Space

area between two or more things on earth’s surface

distributed

arranged within a given space

density

number of things in a specific area

pattern

how things are arranged in a particular space