1. Geography for Life Day 6

2. Starter – Take a guess! What is a fossil fuel?
Where do fossil fuels 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. 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

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

11. 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.

12. Article: What is Cultural Ecology?

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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!