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Ch.1 study guide
Key Terms!
Question | Answer |
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Anthropogenic | Human-induced changes on the natural evironment |
Cartography | Theory and practice of making visual representations of the earth's surface in the form of maps. |
Cultural Ecology | The study of the interactions between societies and the natural evironments they live in. |
Cultural landscape | The human-modififed natural landscape specifically containing the imprint of a particular culture or society. |
Earth system science | Systematic approach to physical geography that looks at the intereaction between the earth's physical systems and processes on a global scale. |
Environmental Geography | The intersection between human and physical geography, which explores the spatial impacts humans have on the physical environment and vice versa. |
Eratosthenes | The head librarian at Alexandria during the third century B.C.; he was one of the first cartogaphers. Performed a remarkably accurate computation of the earth's circumference. He is also credited with coining the term "Geography" |
Fertile Crescent | Name given to crescent-shaped area of fertile land stretching from the lower nile valley, along the east mediterranean coast, and into syria and present-day iraq where agricutlure and early civiliation first began about 8000 B.C. |