CORNELL NOTES
Topic 1.5 and 1.6 Notes Name: moro7167
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Questions/Main
Ideas/Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
Topic 1.5 Human-Environmental Interaction
Human-environmental Connection and exchange of dual relationship between humans and the
interaction natural world (and often focus on specialized topics)
Natural resource Items that occur in the natural environment that people can use
Renewable natural resources Theoretically unlimited, not depleted based on use by people
Non-renewable natural Limited, can be exhausted by human uses
resources
Natural resources are not Natural resources are not distributed evenly, and the level of
distributed evenly, and this has development of a county influence who can gain access, and this
both heavy influences and uneven access can have an impact on cultures, political systems, and
impacts onto things more
Sustainability Overarching theme of human geography, relates to trying to use
resources now in ways that allow their use in the future while
minimizing negative impacts on the environment
Sustainable development Sustainable development policies attempt to solve problems coming
policies attempt to solve from natural resource depletion, mass consumption, and other negative
negative effects and problems effects
Land use The study of how land is utilized, modified, and organized by people
Built environment The physical artifacts that humans have created and that form part of
the landscape
Cultural landscape Visible imprint of human activity and culture
Cultural ecology The study of how humans adapt to the environment
Environmental determinism Belief that landforms and climate are the most powerful forces shaping
human behavior and societal development while ignoring influence of
culture
Possibilism A view that acknowledges limits on the effects of the natural
environment and focuses more on the role that human culture plays
Environmental determinism Environmental determinism came to be in the 19th and early 20th
was a theory that was centuries to argue that people in some climates were superior to those
discredited, which caused of other climates, which would be discredited due its reliance in Europe
possibilism to come to be to and overstating the role, which was why possibilism was made to show
display nuance nuance of both the effects of nature and culture
Topic 1.6 Scales of Analysis
Scale of analysis allows us to Scale of analysis, or level of generalization, allows geographers to look
look at diff. scales at the local, regional, country, or global scale
Geographic scale / relative Refers to the area of the world being studied
scale
Changing scale of analysis Changing scale of analysis involves studying phenomena by zooming
involves studying phenomena in and out to develop a complete understanding, there are several scales
through several scales to be of analysis:
able to develop a complete Global scale (entire world)
understanding of the World regional scale (multiple countries)
phenomena, its patterns, and National scale (one country)
other noticeable characteristics National regional scale (portion/region(s) of country)
Topic 1.5 and 1.6 Notes Name: moro7167
Date:
Period:
Questions/Main
Ideas/Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
Topic 1.5 Human-Environmental Interaction
Human-environmental Connection and exchange of dual relationship between humans and the
interaction natural world (and often focus on specialized topics)
Natural resource Items that occur in the natural environment that people can use
Renewable natural resources Theoretically unlimited, not depleted based on use by people
Non-renewable natural Limited, can be exhausted by human uses
resources
Natural resources are not Natural resources are not distributed evenly, and the level of
distributed evenly, and this has development of a county influence who can gain access, and this
both heavy influences and uneven access can have an impact on cultures, political systems, and
impacts onto things more
Sustainability Overarching theme of human geography, relates to trying to use
resources now in ways that allow their use in the future while
minimizing negative impacts on the environment
Sustainable development Sustainable development policies attempt to solve problems coming
policies attempt to solve from natural resource depletion, mass consumption, and other negative
negative effects and problems effects
Land use The study of how land is utilized, modified, and organized by people
Built environment The physical artifacts that humans have created and that form part of
the landscape
Cultural landscape Visible imprint of human activity and culture
Cultural ecology The study of how humans adapt to the environment
Environmental determinism Belief that landforms and climate are the most powerful forces shaping
human behavior and societal development while ignoring influence of
culture
Possibilism A view that acknowledges limits on the effects of the natural
environment and focuses more on the role that human culture plays
Environmental determinism Environmental determinism came to be in the 19th and early 20th
was a theory that was centuries to argue that people in some climates were superior to those
discredited, which caused of other climates, which would be discredited due its reliance in Europe
possibilism to come to be to and overstating the role, which was why possibilism was made to show
display nuance nuance of both the effects of nature and culture
Topic 1.6 Scales of Analysis
Scale of analysis allows us to Scale of analysis, or level of generalization, allows geographers to look
look at diff. scales at the local, regional, country, or global scale
Geographic scale / relative Refers to the area of the world being studied
scale
Changing scale of analysis Changing scale of analysis involves studying phenomena by zooming
involves studying phenomena in and out to develop a complete understanding, there are several scales
through several scales to be of analysis:
able to develop a complete Global scale (entire world)
understanding of the World regional scale (multiple countries)
phenomena, its patterns, and National scale (one country)
other noticeable characteristics National regional scale (portion/region(s) of country)
