Unit 3 Environment-Human Interaction Neolithic RevGreen RevColumbian Exchange Industrial RevEnvironmental Impact

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Question Answer Neolithic Rev-100* QUESTION: Define Neolithic Revolution

Question Answer Answer: People began modify and incorporate agriculture into their lives

Question Answer Neolithic Rev-200 QUESTION: Provide a benefit and consequence of agriculture

Question Answer ANSWER: Benefits: food production, settlements, Consequences: dependent on crops, gender roles, hierarchy, overuse of land, diet

Question Answer Neolithic Rev-300 QUESTION: Who were the Nomads? Provide a benefit and consequence during this time period nomads experience.

Question Answer ANSWER: Hunter and gathers Benefit-better diet, didn’t degrade environment Consequence- stability, could only hunt or gather what you could carry

Question Answer Neolithic Rev-400* QUESTION: Compare nomads and agriculturalists impact on the environment

Question Answer ANSWER: Nomads: Used large amounts of land so didn’t have that great of an impact on land Agriculturalists: used a small parcel of land extensively

Question Answer Neolithic Rev-500* QUESTION: Describe the impact of the agricultural revolution (three)

Question Answer ANSWER: Gender roles were established, labor become more specialized, famine/starvation dependence, hierarchies established, environmental consequences

Question Answer QUESTION: Define Green Revolution Green Rev-100

Question Answer ANSWER: Advancement in agricultural technologies to feed to the developing world

Question Answer Green Rev-200 QUESTION: Why did it occur?

Question Answer ANSWER: Malnutrition and Starvation were prevalent in the developing world and were expecting a tremendous population growth

Question Answer Green Rev-300 QUESTION: Provide two positive and two negative critiques of the Green Revoltuon

Question Answer ANSWER: +fed the developing world, help industrialized, jobs -irrigation systems pollute scare drinking water, birth defects, poor diet, overuse of land

Question Answer Green Rev-400 QUESTION: What's the next step regarding the Green Revolution?

Question Answer ANSWER: New technologies that will provide food to the developing world and won’t harm the environment

Question Answer Green Rev-500 QUESTION: Who is credited with sparking the Green Revolution?

Question Answer ANSWER: Norman Bourlag

Question Answer Columbian Exchange-100 QUESTION: Define Columbian Exchange

Question Answer ANSWER: Conversion of people, animals, plants, & goods

Question Answer Columbian Exchange-200 QUESTION: Provide two examples of EACH the origins of food, crops, animals, etc of the old world and new world

Question Answer ANSWER: Old-wheat, barley, cows, horses, chickens, small pox New-corn, potatoes, buffalo, turkey, syphilis

Question Answer Columbian Exchange-300 QUESTION: How did the Columbian Exchange impact the environment?

Question Answer ANSWER: It transformed ecosystems by introducing new plants and animals to the current ecosystem

Question Answer Columbian Exchange-400* QUESTION: The Columbian exchange resulted in: (not environmental)

Question Answer ANSWER: Population growth Trade Spread of Diseases Destruction of Native population

Question Answer Columbian Exchange-500 QUESTION: Explain Crosby’s argument on the Columbian Exchange

Question Answer ANSWER:Highlight the drastic ecological changes that human beings are capable of causing even when it is not their intention to do so

Question Answer IR-100 QUESTION: Define the Industrial Revolution

Question Answer ANSWER: The introduction and advancement of new technologies and production techniques, impacted urbanization, & revolutionized the work foce

Question Answer IR-200 QUESTION: Where did the IR originate? Why?

Question Answer ANSWER: Great Britain Extensive natural resources

Question Answer IR-300 QUESTION: Define urbanization. Why did it occur?

Question Answer ANSWER: Creation/build up of cities. High demand for jobs (factories present in cities)

Question Answer IR-400 QUESTION: Provide three impacts (non- environmental) of the industrial revolution

Question Answer ANSWER: Working conditions/hours/laborers, urbanization, disruption of family roles, advancement in infrastructure, increase in population, decrease in # of farmers, challenges of city life (sewage/crowded)

Question Answer IR-500* QUESTION: The Industrial Revolution and the Columbian Exchange were both similar in what way?

Question Answer ANSWER: Resulted in large population boom

Question Answer Environment-Impact-100* QUESTION: Who was credited with making the connection between global warming and natural disasters? How does global influence natural disasters?

Question Answer ANSWER: Al Gore Global Warming influences the intensity of natural disasters (hurricanes, storms)

Question Answer Environment Imapct-200 QUESTION: What will occur as a result of global warming? Provide two effects

Question Answer ANSWER: Melting of ice caps, strong storms, extreme temperatures, rising sea levels, increase in human casualties and destruction

Question Answer Environment Impact-300 QUESTION: What causes global warming? Explain the process. What is the leading contributor?

Question Answer ANSWER: Sun rays can’t radiate back out to the atmosphere because a thick layer of green house gases have emerged in the atmosphere. Co2 from burning fossil fuels is the largest contributor

Question Answer Environment Impact-400 QUESTION: Summarize Mclamb argument regarding climate change

Question Answer ANSWER: Since the beginning of human life on earth there has been a greater demand for resources than availability of resources

Question Answer Environment-500 QUESTION: Developed and Developing countries generally ____________on regarding climate change

Question Answer ANSWER: disagree about the benefits of industrialization but agree on the threats posed by climate change