1. Introduction to AP Human Geography
Mr. Stepek

2. Interaction: the relationship between humans and their environment.
Adaptation
Modification
How do humans  to better fit into their environment.
Clothing, housing, behavior
New Yorkers often don’t own cars.
Too crowded, too hard to park

4. Interaction: the relationship between humans and their environment.
Adaptation
Modification
How do humans  to better fit into their environment.
Clothing, housing, behavior
New Yorkers often don’t own cars.
Too crowded, too hard to park
Use the subway or walk
How do humans  their environment to better suit themselves, examples:
infrastructure
public improvements
engineering

6. “God created the earth, but the Dutch created Holland” = “polders”

7. SUSTAINABILITY

8. SUSTAINABILITY

9. The geographic study of human-environmental relationships
Cultural ecology
The geographic study of human-environmental relationships
Two main ideas:
Environmental determinism vs. possibilism
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