The geographically informed person must understand how humans are able to live in various physical settings and the role the physical features of those settings play in shaping human activity. Regardless of spatial scale, Earth's surface is diverse in terms of climates, vegetation, fauna, soils, underlying geology, and topography. That diversity offers a range of environmental contexts where people can live and work. Physical systems and environmental characteristics do not, by themselves, determine the patterns of human activity; however, they do influence and constrain the choices people make. Therefore, Standard 15 contains these themes: Environmental Opportunities and Constraints, Environmental Hazards, and Adaptation to the Environment. To live in any physical environment, no matter how accommodating or how challenging, people must develop ways to take advantage of its opportunities and minimize its risks. If the incentives are great enough, people can adapt to the harshest of environments, often regardless of cost or risk. A concept central to understanding environments is the idea of carrying capacity: the maximum number of animals and/or people a given area can support at a given time under specified levels of consumption without incurring significant environmental deterioration. Environments vary in their carrying capacities. Failure to recognize that reality can lead to environmental disaster. Increasingly, people are recognizing their responsibility to manage the environment in ways that are sustainable for future generations.
ating, river rafting). Describe how people take advantage of the physical environment of their local community (e.g., water supply, farming, gardens, recreational activities). B. Describe examples in which the physical environment imposes constraints on human activities, as exemplified by being able to
Describe how human activities are limited by landforms such as flood plains, deltas, mountains, and slopes in choices of land use (e.g., agriculture, human settlement, transportation networks). Describe examples in which human activities are limited by different types of climates (e.g., cold or polar, rainy or dry, equatorial). Describe how transportation routes are shaped by the physical environment (e.g., horseshoe curves, tunnels, bridges). Environmental Hazards 2. Environmental hazards affect human activities
Therefore, the student is able to:
A. Identify and describe the locations of environmental hazards,as exemplified by being able to
Secondary sources are closely related to primary sources and often interpret them. The sources are documents that relate to information that originated elsewhere. Secondary sources of the use of generalization analysis interpretation and synthesis of primary sources
After the murder of Joseph Smith there was an argument over the succession and the majority of people followed Brighan Young, who was the leader to lead the Mormons to Utah.
<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, <span>the correct response would be that while some were free (usually in the North), most were enslaved under white colonists in the South.</span></span>
the action or state of attaining or having attained spiritual knowledge or insight, in particular (in Buddhism) that awareness which frees a person from the cycle of rebirth.
The correct answer for this would be option B. <span>The Inquisition that was established by Isabella and Ferdinand in Spain was particularly aimed at </span>Conversos who had converted from Judaism. Conversos are those jewish people who had converted to christianity. The Spanish Inquisition was established<span> to punish those who were not Christian, particularly non-Catholic, as well as those suspected of falsely converting to Christianity.</span>
