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GEOG 150 - MT 2
CAL POLY, SLO. POMPEII
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Geography
Undergraduate 1
05/15/2018

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Where most nuclear reactants are located
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Europe (France)
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Vandana Shiva, most well known for
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Work in protecting environmental diversity & sustainability through organic farming, fair trade, flower power
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Where global temperature increase over the last century has been the greatest
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The Arctic
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Emphasis of political ecology
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Impact of politics, economic forces on cultures and resource use
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Ecofeminists blame environmental problems on
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Patriarchy
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How long humans have adapted to and used the natural environment
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Hundreds of thousands of years
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The most conventional environmental philosophy
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Conservation
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Most influential in anticipating a populations impact on nature
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It's affluence
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The 1992 Earth Summit concerned
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Global environmental issues
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An example that is NOT evidence of global climate change
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disappearing rainforests
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I = PAT
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Impact = Pop * Affluence * Tech
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Preservation, deep ecology, ecofeminism are radical perspectives only found here
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The core
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George Perkins Marsh
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Foundation ideas of the 20th century environmental movement
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"Nature is a social creation"
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Physical world means different things to different people at different times
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Conservation encourages
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Respectful & sustainable resource use
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Environmental preservationists advocate
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Certain habitats, species, resources be off limits entirely
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Region with most urban areas vulnerable to sea level rise
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Southeast Asia
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Bioprospecting is corporate practice of
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Exploiting indigenous knowledge for commercial purposes
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Henry David Thoreau
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Originator of US ecological philosiphy
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These people face the negative consequences of economic development
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The poor
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Cultural geography explores
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The interactions of culture with space, place, and landscape
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Examples of uses to create social identities and/or power differences among groups
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Ethnicity, Race, Sexuality, Gender
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This is placed at the center of studies of human-environmental interactions
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Cultural landscapes
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The concept of trannies and non-scientific genders is based on someone''s
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see-identity
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In the creation of cultural landscapes, culture is
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Dynamic, evolves
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Ethnicity creates
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Differences out of cultural traits and complexes
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The shared set of meanings of culture refers to
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religious practices, family values, historical understandings, and ideas about gender roles
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A cultural landscape results from
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The action of a cultural group within a landscape
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ANT and NRT help cultural geographers think about
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how the material world posses power over humans
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Race has come to refer to
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Differences of people's physical characteristics
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___ landscapes came before ___ landscapes
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Natural, cultural
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Cultural nationalism
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The belief that a nation has a common culture
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When we talk about landscapes as texts, we're referring to
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Landscapes as things of meaning, that can be written and read
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Humanistic approach in geography emphasizes
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An individual's values, meanings, intentions, behaviors
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Degenerative utopias
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Inauthentic settings based on a mix of stereotypes and questionable historical realities
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Sociospatial dialect
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Two-way process by which people create and modify places and landscapes at the same time that places change and influence people
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Recognizing that landscapes produce and communicate meaning allows us to
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Interpret local and national values, priorities, histories, cultural practices
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Consuming place means
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Purchase images, symbols; experiences of places
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These things affect a persons environmental knowledge
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Gender, stage in life, religious beliefs
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Practice of writing and reading signs
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Semiotics
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Fake cowboy towns and recreations of old Venice are
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degenerative utopias
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What profession do geographers have the most in common with?
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Psychology
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Globalization in the form of the new production of irrigated cash crops brought this change to the rural Sudanese villages
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Traditional roles and activities of boys and girls changed
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