For centuries, sugar crystals were made from the evaporated juice of sugarcane, a plant grown only in tropical and subtropical c
limates. In the 1800s, industrial methods were developed to manufacture crystalline sugar from sugar beets. This allowed for large amounts of sugar to be produced in colder, temperate climate zones. Which of the following geographic concepts best explains the ability of humans to use technology to overcome the limitations of climate and modify the landscape? A) Environmental determinism B) Possibilism C) Cultural relativism D) Contagious Diffusion E) Political Ecology
Environmental determinism is the study of how the physical environment predisposes societies and states towards particular development trajectories. Many scholars underscore that this approach supported colonialism and eurocentrism, and devalued human agency in non-Western societies.
Social security is the survival benefit for the family of wage earner who die. The blackout period can be defined as the gap that exists until which the deceased children and spouse does not receive the survivors benefit. In the blackout period the widow or widower who is not remarried will not receive the benefits before the age of 60. They will receive the security money as pension or retirement income of the deceased.
