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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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