[pic] College of Natural Sciences Course Final Exam GEO/215 Geography Exam Instruction: You must respond to the 5 questions posted below. Please support your responses with reading materials or points from class discussions from the entire 5 weeks of class. Each question should include a 200-250 word response. This exam is worth 15 points.
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SUBSTANCE AND ECONOMICS Culture is a learned reaction, this human survival trait gives us a way to colonize and adapt to our environment. With out this key element, adaptation becomes complicated, and our species will die off. Archeologist have dug and scraped away the dirt, rocks and mud to bring us a glimpse of the past. Their fieldwork has shown us how we, as a whole, have biologically adapted to suit our modern needs in the environment that our ancestors have lived in. In addition, they
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Army In Green Army In Green Junnie Clercin Juan Guerra, Justin Gabel Army in green Army in green is group of students who created a green building to help wounded veterans recuperate. In this passage you will find out how it was built and how ideas came along to make this green building possible. This composition will give you an idea about how this operation is being run and the reason it was built. The veterans who will read this story will be very pleased and appreciate the effort
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Plants are exposed to number of environmental factors. Complex arrays of abiotic and biotic factors provide congenial conditions for plant growth and development. Slight change in these factors may cause stress condition. Abiotic stress is one of the most important factors affecting growth; this may results in severe loss of crop production. Exposure of plants to stress condition induces an interruption in plant metabolism at physiological costs (Bolton 2009; Massad et al., 2012). It leads reduction
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Ramanuja Sreenivasan Pd. 3 Evolution 1. Species diversity refers to the variety of different living things. Genetic diversity refers to the variations between individuals of a species — characteristics passed down from parents to their offspring. Ecosystem diversity refers to the great variety of abiotic and biotic things in the environment. They are important for stability and withstanding environmental affects like disease. 2. Humans affect biodiversity by over hunting/fishing, deforestation
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Business and the environment Pollution * Societies become wealthier and people start to * consider quality of life. * Factory smoke, noise & traffic jams are leading * to extra pollution. * Government under pressure to pass laws to * Improve * Pollution can give bad publicity to firms – so * emissions are being controlled Recycling * Extraction of natural resources is expensive and environmentally damaging. * Recycling reduces these costs and improves
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Biodiversity is the foundation of ecosystem services to which human well-being is intimately linked. No feature of Earth is more complex, dynamic, and varied than the layer of living organisms that occupy its surfaces and its seas, and no feature is experiencing more dramatic change at the hands of humans than this extraordinary, singularly unique feature of Earth. This layer of living organisms—the biosphere—through the collective meta¬bolic activities of its innumerable plants, animals, and microbes
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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) serves and represents a new pattern in forestry as forest areas need to be adequately managed. As Young (1982) stated a long time ago, management of the forest for multiple land use is now common. This is due to the encroachment of forest areas and illegal felling in the protected forest areas. This brings about the determination of the use of the forest, forest land and forest products to ensure that the benefits derived today are similarly
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Ayla Reau TSEA per.3 May 17, 2010 It is a sad day indeed when your children might never see a live polar bear in the Arctic or an orangutan swinging through the forest of Borneo. The only place future generations will have a chance to possibly see these endangered animals will be in pictures and zoos, since we humans are now causing the greatest mass extinction of species since the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. In the last two centuries alone the Earth has witnessed world-wide
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COURSE: BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION AND CHANGE TOPIC: Introducing Change. Change is one thing that has been a constant recurring decimal in man, his environment, and in the business of man, since the creation of any living being. Man has witnessed incremental change in all aspects of life in an attempt to adapt to the environment. These environmental changes on earth can be traced back to 66 million years ago. For example, we hear of the age of the dinosaur, which dominated the earth at a time
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