Adams HCHS AP Human Geo. Rubenstein Ch1 Key Issue 4
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| Abiotic | Composed of nonliving or inorganic matter
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| Atmosphere | The thin layer of gases surrounding Earth
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| Biosphere | All living organisms on Earth, including plants and animals, as well as microorganisms
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| Biotic | Composed of living organisms
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| Climate | The long-term average weather condition at a particular location
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| Conservation | The sustainable management of a natural resource
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| Cultural ecology | A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environmental relationships
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| Ecology | The scientific study of ecosystems
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| Ecosystem | A group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact
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| Environmental determinism | A nineteenth- and early twentieth-century approach to the study of geography. The study of how the physical environment caused human activities.
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| Hydrosphere | All of the water on and near Earth's surface
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| Lithosphere | Earth's crust and a portion of upper mantle directly below the crust
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| Nonrenewable resource | Something that is produced in nature more slowly than it is consumed by humans
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| Polder | Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area
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| 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
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| Preservation | The maintenance of resources in their present condition, with as little human impact as possible
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| Renewable resources | Something that is produced in nature more rapidly than it is consumed by humans
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| Resource | A substance in the environment that is useful to people, economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use
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| 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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