Where does your food come from? Choose one item from your cupboard or grocery store that has more than seven ingredients on the label. Pick one ingredient you have not heard of before. Do some research on that ingredient and tell your classmates about it. Is it a natural ingredient or one that is created […]
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Humans have used a variety of methods to get food throughout history. Choose one of the following food-getting strategies: foraging, horticulture, pastoralism, or intensive agriculture. Then, find a culture that gets its food using that method and describe the process that culture uses. How does its method of obtaining food affect its population size, economy,
The QGIS tutorials are important in gaining practical experience with open source GIS software. These tutorials allow the students to put concepts from the lectures into practice. include a short written document (about a half page) Define and describe the GIS concepts stressed within the tutorial. Which parts of the tutorial were difficult? Why? How
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The purpose of this paper is to summarize the organization of your final map project. You must choose a real issue to study geographically with the San Diego Region. Use SANDAG and U.S. Census and your own GPS shapefiles and databases to create your map and then perform the necessary spatial analysis in order to
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YOU are responsible for reading and understanding these instructions. If you turn in an assignment that does not follow these instructions, your grade will reflect it. You cannot say I didn’t warn you. The purpose of this assignment is to have you explore the type of scholarly research being done by human geographers. The project
What is the nearest large city (>50,000 population) near you (or your own city if it is large)? What are the city’s biggest basic and nonbasic activities? Describe the relative location of the city in terms of why it is located where it is (e.g., a big river). What forms of transportation does the city
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Unfortunately, war and conflict occur today and have been part of human history as well. Choose a conflict/war going on today. How does the geography, economy, and culture of the area or parties involved play a role in the conflict? Is this conflict/war causing a migration of people? If so, why? If not, why?
The topic of this homework assignment is to identify and explain a sustainability solution at your campus or local community level. Complete the following steps: Identify two organizations near you (e.g., your city, county, or state) that are involved in creating local sustainable solutions. Examples would be a community garden, green building initiatives, recycling programs,
The Global Climate Dashboard is an application provided via NOAA that graphically tracks trends in climate metrics through time. Take the following steps to navigate the website and answer the following questions below: A. Open a new tab in your browser and navigate to the website http://www.climate.gov. B. Scroll down on that page until you
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Social movements often use modern art and artists to accomplish an end goal. In this way, the art communicates a movement’s ideas to its members and to the wider world. In this assignment, you will examine a contemporary social movement and the art associated with it to determine its effect on you and on others.