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| Refers to the body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people |
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To care about - to adore or worship something, as in the modern word cult
To take care of - to nurse or look after something, as in cultivate |
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| Environmental Determinism Theory |
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| The British approach to culture, environmentally dependent. |
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| The American approach to culture, The culture of the people is not dependent upon the environment. |
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| Sensitive Environmental Modification (The Netherlands)VS. Non-Sensitive Environmental Modification (Russia) |
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| Culture influenced by family |
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| Countries that are immune to western influence |
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| the cultural variety and cultural differences that exist in the world, a society, or an institution |
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| Surrounded by an ecosystem that isolates them from modern society |
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| food culture and nutritional history, to single ingredients, regional Italian cuisines, and domestic customs and culture. |
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| Loss of traditional values |
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| Foreign Media Imperialism |
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Environmental Impacts:
a) The Uniformed Landscape
b) Increase Demand for Natural Resources
c) Pollution and Global Warming |
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Integration:
a) Syncretism - the combination of different forms of belief or practice.
b) Amalgamation - A process of merging new commerce to mainstream commerce
1) Acculturation - adoption of values, attitudes, speech, etc..
2) Assimilation - Complete integration, complete absorbtion
c) Competition Resistance Theory - Celebrate what is hated |
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| Conditionants of Religion |
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| Cosmogony - explains the origin of life and mankind |
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| ETHNICITY: It refers to the identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or heearth |
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| Refers to the identify with a group of people who share a biological ancestor |
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| Is the study of where ethnicities are distributed across space, how are they tied to a particular place, and the reason why they have distinctive traits while interplaying connections with other groups. |
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Apartheid:
"Separate but Equal" Doctrine |
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| a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law that justified systems of segregation. Under this doctrine, services, facilities and public accommodations were allowed to be separated by race, on the condition that the quality of each group's public facilities was to remain equal. |
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Apartheid:
"White Flight" Theory and Blockbusting practices |
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"White Flight": the large-scale migration of whites of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions.
Blockbusting: was a business practice of U.S. real estate agents and building developers meant to encourage white property owners to sell their houses at a loss, by implying that racial minorities were moving into their previously racially segregated neighborhood, thus depressing real estate property values. |
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Apartheid:
Rhodesia and South Africa |
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The process by which a more powerful ethnic group attempts to create an ethnically homogeneous region (or country) by forcibly evicting all members of another ethnic group.
1) The former Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
2) Bosnia and Herzegovina (Muslims and Serbs) Serbia (Kosovo Province)
3)The Rwandan Holocaust (Tutsis and Hutus)
d) Sudan and Southern Sudan (July 09, 2011) |
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Canallazation (Channalization)
Water Pollution
a) Fertilizers
b) Biocides - self cleaning
c) Animal Waste - hogs and cows
d) Industrial Waters
e) Mining Tailings
f) Urban runoff - car exhause, etc... |
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Mt. Saint Helen, Isle of Martanique
a) Natural emissions
b) Primary Pollutants
c) Secondary Pollutants
1) Thermal Inversion: Beijing, Mexico City
2) Acid Rain - The cancer of the stone
Smog - Smoke/Smog
O-zone depletion - most holes arer in the poles
3)The Greenhouse effect(Global Warming) |
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| Lithospheric & Biospheric Impacts |
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Lithospheric Impact:
In pursuit of a livelihood |
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| In pursuit of a livlihood |
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Lithospheric Impact:
Subsidence Processes |
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| the sinking of the city and buildings due to the soil |
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Lithospheric Impact:
Deforestation |
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Lithospheric Impact:
Reforestation |
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Lithospheric Impact:
Afforestation |
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Lithospheric Impact:
Desertification |
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| desert evolves because of human mismanagement |
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Lithospheric Impact:
Salinization |
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| a process that results from: high levels of salt in the water. landscape features that allow salts to become mobile |
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| plant or animal species introduced into an area where they do not occur naturally, non-native species. |
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| The study of the origin, characteristics, and development of landforms; with emphasis on the study of the various forces (processes) that create landforms. Ex. Orography, Hydrography, Geomorphology, etc... |
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| Studies the number, composition, and distribution of human beings in relation to variations in the conditions of earth space. Also referred to as Population Geography |
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| The study of the human organization and distribution of political phenomena in their areal expression of spatial evidences of culture, such as language , ethnicity, and religion. The main areas of expression are nationality, boundary delimitations, and socio-economic representations. |
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| The study of the areal distribution of specialized human behavioral patterns, understandings, and adaptations that summarize the way of life of a group of people |
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| A concept that refers to interdependence between geographic location in relation to the traffic of people and goods, ideas, diseases, from one region to another. |
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| The study of how people earn their living, how livelihood systems vary by area, and how economic activities are spatially interrelated and linked. |
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| Refers to the study of altering effect that human activities have over ecosystems. |
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| The self-sustaining environmental units that consust of all the organisms (plants, and animals) and physical deatures (air, water, soil, and chemicals) co-existing together in a particular area. |
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| 4 interrelated elements in an ecosystem |
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1)The Biosphere
2)The troposphere
3)The hydrosphere
4)The lithosphere |
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| The study of historical processes by which geographic determinants have been evolving and interpreted throughout different places among different civilizations |
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| Refers to the study of the collection of numerical and statistical data in geography |
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| The study of map-making and map interpretation |
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| The study of how to use geographic terrain in a most efficient developmental manner keeping a balance between the economy and the environmental landscape. |
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