Humans in the Environment
Vocab:
The environment has significant influence over how human culture and society develops.
What is "Determinism"?
This environment gets the most precipitation of any.
What is the RAINFOREST?
The gentle, regular floods of this river were looked forward to by the people who farmed its banks.
What is the NILE river?
In 2015, this city was the most populous in the world, with 37.2 million people in it.
What is URBAN?
Vocab:
People adjust to or find creative solutions to the challenges of living in an environment.
What is "Possibilism"?
This environment has the most extreme daily temperature swings of any environment
What is the DESERT?
The seasonal flooding in this cradle caused the people living here to build their homes on stilts.
What is the INDUS river?
For the first 185,000 years of human existence, human populations were probably LESS THAN 1,000,000 (1M) people world wide. This revolution changed everything, because _________.
What is the FIRST AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION? Farming caused populations to skyrocket. By 2,000 years ago, there were about 1.7M people worldwide.
This type of animal often thrives in human environments, like cities, and can be dangerous and/or annoying to people living alongside them.
What are PESTS?
What creative adaptation to their environment do the traditional homes of the Greek Islands show?
What is temperature control? (white homes to reflect heat)
This environment experiences frequent and massive fires.
The SHRUBLANDS
The irrigation system of Mesopotamia solved this problem that ancient Mesopotamians faced living in their river cradle.
What is unexpected and damaging floods.
In 2015, these three continents did NOT have a top 5 most populous city.
What are EUROPE, AUSTRALIA, and AFRICA?
Many people who move to big cities are seeking out this.
Better paying jobs.
Living underground is a creative solution to what environmental survival problem?
What is heating and shelter? (uses geothermal/earth's heat)
This environment is home to the biggest land predators in the world.
What is the TUNDRA?
The Huang He was known as _______________ because it __________________.
What is the "River of Sorrow" because it flooded frequently and catastrophically, wiping out entire villages at once.
In 2035, this city is expected to be the largest in the world at 43.3 million people.
What is Delhi, India?
As cities expand, they often "eat into" this essential space around them.
What are RURAL or AGRICULTURAL areas?
How are the traditional building materials of turf/sod homes of Iceland an example of human/environment interactions?
Icelanders were forced to build homes made of grass, partially underground because they deforested the island.
This environment can ONLY be found in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the TAIGA?
The vast desert surrounding the NILE was a source of comfort to the Egyptians for this reason.
Few, if any, invaders could cross the desert. Acted like impenetrable city walls.
In the near future (2035+) this CONTINENT is expected to experience the most population growth, especially in the cities of KINSHASA and LAGOS.
What is AFRICA?
What was the name of the strategy that city planners used to limit the choices of where Black and poor people could move to in cities?
What is REDLINING?