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Cartography
Study of Maps
Conservation
Use within certain biological limits
Exploitation
abusing a locations resources
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
analyze relationships between population density and soil fertility
Gifford Pinchot
German Conservationist
Hetch Hetchy Valley
important issue to dam or not to dam
Human Geography
study of human or social phenomena
human environment geography
study of nature environment
John Muir
Preservationist- established the first national parks
Modifiable Areal Unit Problem
When modifying an area, biodiversity gets lowered
Net primary Productivity
Consuming an amount and then having to consume elsewhere because it ran out
non consumptive use
hiking, camping
Physical Geography
study of biophysical phenomena
politics of scale
political implications of the choice of scale preservation
remote sensing
sensing something without making direct contact. Eyes, aerial photography, satellite imagery
scale
the amount or size of something usually in relation to another
sustainable yield
annual growth increment
agenda 21
action plan for sustainable development at the Earth Summit
brown issues
pollution issues related to industrialization and urbanization
Brundtland Report
1987, Report from the World Commission on Environment and Development called Our Common Future
Cowboy Economics
Strip an area of resources and then move to the next one
development
improvement in the living standards of society
Desertification
leaving an environment barren
Dust Bowl
terrible windborne erosion in the US central grasslands
Earth Day
day to inspire awareness and understanding of Earth’s natural environment on April 22nd 1970
Earth Summit
second conference on environmental and development in 1992 in Rio
Environmental Kuznets Curve
With national wealth comes income inequality
Environmentalism
concern for human impacts on the environment
green issues
forestry, parks and wildlife issues
local food movement
shipping food around the world emits a ton of greenhouse gasses
Post Humanism
Philosophy that pushes beyond the scope of humans and includes non humans too
Socionature
removes lens between social and natural worlds
sustainability
idea that an activity could last indefinitely without resource depletion
sustainable development
development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs
UN Convention on Biological Diversity
Kept biodiversity of that top of the international environmental agenda
UN Framework Convention On Climate Change
1992 Earth Summit Where Climate change negotiations occurred
Biomes are primarily classified by the dominant faunal communities found there
False
What is an Ecosystem
structural and functional unit of ecology where the living organisms interact with each other and the surrounding environment
Wildlife, moisture, temperature
environmental controls
Water has a higher specific heat than land
True
Which Biome is characterized by Xerophytes
Desert
Kinds of Environments in which species are adapted to live in
habitat
What is a Biome
large recognizable assemblages of plants and animals living in a functional relationship with the environment
Define Ecology
Deals with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments
Air flows from areas of low pressure to high pressure
false
The concept that communities proceed through a predictable step by step change over time
Succession
In what hemisphere would be the highest daily solar insolation values in June
Northern hemisphere
Disturbance may have positive effects for certain species in an ecosystem
True
In Simple terms Physical Geography
deals with the how and why things are where they are and investigates the processes that made them so
Biome most likely found in equatorward margins of midlatitudes
Temperate Deciduous
Mechanism that drives wind and water currents as well as the climate
Differential Heating
In ecological terms, niche is
the role an organism plays in a community
Relative reflectivity or absorption properties of a surface
Albedo
The Hydrosphere in physical geography refers to
water in all its forms on earth
abiotic
non living
biotic
living
albedo
reflective power
angle of incidence
tilt of the Earth towards a particular direction of the sun
anthropogenic
human induced change
arid
true arid deserts get less than 250mm of rain
semi arid
semi arid deserts get 500mm of rain
aspect
direction towards which a hill or mountain slope faces
atmosphere
gaseous layer that surrounds the earth
Biogeography
study of patterns and relationships found in the living environment
Biome
plant and animal communities with distinct characteristics. Defined by dominant vegetation
Fauna
animals found in region
Flora
plant life found in region
Biosphere
Encompasses all living organisms on Earth
Bioturbation (of soils)
animal disturbance and mixing of soils
climax community
thought to be the endgame vegetation for the area and what a biome was based off of
community
assembly of all organisms living in a prescribed area
competition
mutually detrimental interaction between individuals in which they compete over a limited resource
Condensation
when dew cools even further and forms clouds
climate
average condition of weather over a long period of time)
weather
day to day state of the atmosphere
closed forest canopy
continuous forest cover
deciduous forest
found in hot lowlands with high rain
dew point
air warms and absorbs water then cools and air is saturated
disturbance
perturbations to the natural systems that are typically short lived
Ecology
interrelationships of organisms and their environments
Ecosystem
state of biotic and abiotic components in a given environment
Ecotone
transition zones of competition in which one biome interacts with another
Environmental lapse rate
Temperature change as a function of elevation. 6.4 C/km
Spring Equinox
March 21st
Fall Equinox
September 22nd
Summer Solstice
June 21st
Winter Solstice
December 21st
Evapotranspiration
water is transferred from land to atmosphere by evaporation from soil and transpiration from plants
Generalists
species that can live virtually anywhere
glacial period
repeated advance and retreat of ice sheets
global carbon cycle
source and a sink for carbon which has consequences for carbon exchange on earth
Hadley Cell Circulation
Air descends and creates downward drying winds
Holocene (epoch)
the last 12,000 years of human history
Hydrosphere
water in all its forms
ice ages
common name for glacial periods
interglacial period
warmer and wetter than the ice ages
Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)
located near the equator and has a very humid climate
keystone species
limit distribution and community structure of many species in an ecosystem through direct or indirect effects. Critical role in maintaining entire ecosystems
Krummholz
vegetation type common to transition areas between boreal forests and the tundra. Crooked wood in German
Landforms
things like hills and valleys
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