APHG, 1.5

Human Environment Interaction

the study of the interrelationship between people and their physical environment

sustainability

The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future.

resource

A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use.

renewable resource

A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which the resource is consumed

nonrenewable resource

Something produced in nature more slowly than it is consumed by humans

biotic system

System composed of living organisms

abiotic system

Composed of nonliving or inorganic matter

atmosphere

A mixture of gases that surrounds a planet or moon.

hydrosphere

All the water at and near the surface of the earth, 97% of which is in oceans

lithosphere

the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.

Koppen climate classification system

developed by Wladimir Koppen, a system for classifying the world's climates on the basis of temperature and precipitation

3 pillars of sustainability

environment, economy, society

environmental determinism

A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions.

environmental possibilism

the theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions.

Ellen Churchill Semple

claimed that geography was the study of the influences of the natural environment on people

Elsworth Huntington

environmental determinist

Carl Sauer

Defined the concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental unit of geographical analysis.

cultural ecology

Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.

Friedrich Ratzel

father of modern political geography, he created the Organic Theory

Was an environmental determinist