Past (1000 Cal.yr bp - 1900)
Earth: What is the name for the glacial period that began around AD 1590 and ended C.AD 1850?
Little Ice Age (LIA)
Earth: The first systematic large-scale compilation of proxy temperatures mainly utilized which environmental proxy technique?
Tree Rings
Steal: What is an example of an environmental impact that is exacerbated by population increase?
Greenhouse gas emission increasing, Water scarcity, and Habitat destruction
Germs: European societies developed resistance to disease through centuries of exposure due to what factor?
Animal Domestication
Steal: Around what time period did human population see a significant increase?
Middle of the 19th Century
Earth: What is one of the most profound implications of future environmental change according to the book?
Sea level rise
Steal: What forest type was completely removed that contributed to degradation of the landscape on Easter Island?
Palm Forest
Germs: Name 2 conditions that allowed human population to increase so rapidly.
Advances in medicine, Agriculture, Sanitation, New Reproductive Technologies
Germs: What is a growing concern over human health and permafrost melt?
Dormant pathogens stored in permafrost
Steal: Which two geographic regions experienced colonization during this time period?
The Arctic Northlands and the Pacific
Germs: Health problems like respiratory diseases, heart disease, and some types of cancer can be linked to what environmental factor?
Environmental contaminants / pollutants
Earth: What are humans likely to leave behind preserved in the geologic record?
Plastic, concrete, tarmac, fluvial bed changes
What are the locations that were chosen to harness strong mountain winds to fuel high-temperature fires needed to smelt metallic ores from 550 C.E. to 1050 C.E ?
Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, Present day Uzbekistan