SPL EXAM WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS |VERIFIED
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Anthropocene - ACCURATE ANSWERS - A term used to capture the idea that we are now living in a new geological time period
-The 12,000 year old Holocene period is giving way to the Anthropocene period
-Today the planetary ecosystems have been so modified by humanity that there exists no such thing...
SPL EXAM 2024\2025
SPL EXAM 2024\2025 WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS |VERIFIED
Anthropocene - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - A term used to capture
the idea that we are now living in a new geological time period
-The 12,000 year old Holocene period is giving way to the
Anthropocene period
-Today the planetary ecosystems have been so modified by humanity
that there exists no such thing as pristine or first nature but only
historical nature or socio-nature
BRICI - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -Brazil, Russia, india, china,
Indonesia
-Group of emerging economies which, by impression of their pace of
growth and size, could rise to become future economic and global
superpowers.
,Built Environment - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The man made
surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale
from buildings to parks
Carrying capacity - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The max number of
people the earth (or any other defined territory) is able to sustain given
known resources and current technology
Commodity chains (aka value chain or supply chain) - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ - The stages, locations, and materials required to
produce a commodity
- Commodity- an item that can be sold
- the stages which a commodity passes through as it is fashioned from a
raw material into a finished product ready for distribution to the market
Conflict Minerals - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Raw materials that
come from a particular part of the world where conflict is occurring,
profits from mining these minerals funds violence
~Democratic Republic of Congo
~Tantalum, tin, tungsten, gold
Cultural Landscapes - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - The etching,
engravings, deposits, and imprint of human activities on the surface of
earth
- Cultural landscapes that are build environments that are inscribed onto
natural environments
, DDT/Chemical pesticides - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Impacts bald
eagles and other raptors
~Toxins move up the food chain
Ecological footprint - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - The amount of
useful land and sea area necessary to supply the resources a human
population consumes and to assimilate human waste
- The ___________________ is a measure of the scale of the human
impact on the natural environment through resources exploitation and
pollution
- The amount of the environment required to produce goods/services to
support a particular life style
~Carrying capacity
~Is out lifestyle sustainable?
~Normative practices of consumption
~Renewable and non-renewable resources
~Renewable still requires time and space
~Environmental impact of normative lifestyle and consumption practices
Economic Geography - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - The spatial
dynamics of capital
~Capital?
~Wealth/poverty
~Globalization and the transnational
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