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Ap Human Geography Chapter 1 Summary

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In chapter five, we discussed several things on geography such as: ecology, the interaction of geography, demography, and environment. In the textbook they defined ecology as “the science concerned with the interactions between living things and their environment.” Human ecology which “is the part of ecology that deals with the way in which human societies adjusts to their environment. Ecological balance “is the term applied to the state achieved when plant or animal species, with its own characteristics and needs, has adjusted to its environment and survived, and when other species, which have likewise adjusted to the environment, prevent it from expanding indefinitely and from crowding them out. The environment is the sum `of all the external influences that impinge on the human organism. Geography is a social science that focuses on the spatial …show more content…

The social environment is composed of the elements in our surroundings that are human or of human origin. The natural environment is composed of nonhuman elements in our of the group to which we belong. Our natural environment depends primarily on the climate, water resources, soil, topography, and animal life and mineral resources of the part of the world in which we live in. Demography the study of the number and characteristics of a population. It is concerned not only with the number of people in an area but also with factors that may be causing their number to increase or decrease. The Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) is the most important government anti-pollution agency: it directs antipollution efforts and monitors environmental problems. Technology is the universe of tools, means, and methods through which we interact with our environment. An example of technological advance that has greatly influenced my life will be telephones. Cell phones has been one of the most

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