AP GEO CH 1 K.I. 4 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Abiotic | Composed of nonliving or inorganic matter |
| Atmosphere | The thin layer of gases surrounding Earth |
| Biosphere | All living organisms on Earth, including plants and animals, as well as microorganisms |
| Biotic | Composed of living organisms |
| Climate | The long-term average weather condition at a particular location |
| Conservation | The sustainable management of a natural resource |
| Cultural ecology | A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environmental relationships |
| Ecology | The scientific study of ecosystems |
| Ecosystem | A group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact |
| Environmental determinism | A nineteenth- and early twentieth-century approach to the study of geography. The study of how the physical environment caused human activities. |
| Hydrosphere | All of the water on and near Earth's surface |
| Lithosphere | Earth's crust and a portion of upper mantle directly below the crust |
| Nonrenewable resource | Something that is produced in nature more slowly than it is consumed by humans |
| Polder | Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area |
| Possibilism | The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives |
| Preservation | The maintenance of resources in their present condition, with as little human impact as possible |
| Renewable resources | Something that is produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed by humans |
| Resource | A substance in the environment that is useful to people, economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use |
| Sustainability | The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future |
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