1. Geography for Life Day 6

2. Starter What is a fossil fuel? Where do they come from?
What countries provide most of our oil and gas (like for cars)?
What percentage of the Earth’s water is fresh (non-salty)?

3. Fossil Fuels

4. Fossil Fuels
Overview of Fossil Fuels

5. Distribution of FOSSIL Fuels

8. Fracking Video What is Fracking - HowStuffWorks
Fracking explained: opportunity or danger

9. Climate

10. What’s the difference? The long-term weather conditions in a area
Climate
Season
Weather
The long-term weather conditions in a area
Large geographic area
Slow to change
Affected by Earth’s tilt
Impacts seasonal weather
Temporary behavior of the atmosphere
Small geographic area
Can change rapidly

11. What climate zone is Utah?

13. Climate Regions

14. Culture
The ideas, beliefs, and values that make up a group’s traditions. Things like language, religion, and ethnicity.
Example: Mormonism in Utah
Example: Latinos in Central and South America

15. Environmental Determinism
Cultural Ecology
shapes
Environmental Determinism
determines
Possiblism
influences

16. Cultural Ecology Environment shapes culture and development
How people use and adapt to the environment and how the environment influences the development of your culture (religion, warfare, etiquette, clothing styles, etc.)
Example: Hindu culture worships the cow because the people of that region have relied on cows for milk and cultivation and so it incorporated the worship of the cow into their culture.

17. Reservoirs Man-Made Lakes/Ponds
Created by altering a river’s flow by damming parts of it
Lake Powell!

18. Polders
Man-Made Land
Created by draining water from area, producing dams or dikes
16% of Netherlands is man- made due to polders.
Many other countries, including the U.S. have polders

19. Article: What is Ecology?

20. Environmental Determinism
Old theory of geography
Environment determines culture and development
The environment controls what you eat, whether you become rich or poor, if you develop technology, etc.
Example: Temperate climate of Europe produced better health conditions and lower death rates than other parts of the world and so the standard of living improved

21. Possibilism Theory used by modern geographers
The physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to it and choose a course of action from many alternatives. Can use environment as a collection of resources, and then choose to use and develop.
Example: People can learn about crops – what grows best in what climates, and then choose to grow crops are that are compatible with their environment

22. Environmental Determinism
Cultural Ecology
How humans interact with the environment
Environmental Determinism
The local environment determines how humans will develop their society (culture, technology, etc.)
NO FREE WILL
Possiblism
The local environment influences how humans will develop their society (culture, technology, etc.) but does not determine!
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!