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Chap 2: Multiple Lifeways
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
01/18/2008

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Adaptation
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This is when an organism makes a biological or behavioral change that will benefit their survival and reproductive success in the environment.
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Carrying Capacity
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This is where the environment only has the potential to support a certain amount of population.  This is usually at the point or before that the population will tend to stabilize.
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Ecosystem
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This is the cycle of energy and matter that link the living to the nonliving.
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Environment
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This is the shelter, food, predators where a certain species is found.  Anything that impinges on that society and somewhat alters behavior or survival.
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Evolution
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This is where small changes in a species occur that over a prolonged time can/does transform a species into something else.
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Foraging
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This is where the society depends on hunting/gathering for resources. 
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Genes
Definition
Discrete particles of information that pass on information from a parent to the child.
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Habitat
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This is the area in which a certain species lives.
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Horticulture or Subsistence Agriculture
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Working small plots of land with or without the help of draft animals or plows or irrigation.
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Industrial Agriculture
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This is basically the manufacturing or use of fossil fuels to make, create, or produce forms of food.
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Intensive Agriculture
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This is a form of agriculture that used plow, irrigation, or draft animals to produce the items being produced.
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Niche
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This is the environmental factors that a species has to have to survive and what it does to get this.
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Pastoralism
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This is a society that bases everything on the domestication of animals, some food may come from trade.
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Political Ecology
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This is where societies fight of control of natural resources or an area of land so that the society can survive/thrive on the land.
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Resilience
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This is the ability that a ecosystem can change and still be able to keep the basic elements.
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Stability
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This is the rate in which an ecosystem can return to its normal rate after disturbances.
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