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Habitat Selection
Rate the following slides. Give a 10 if you
would like to live there or spend a
considerable amount of time there, and a 1 if
you would not. Justify in a few words your
immediate reaction to each scene.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Slum area, about 3,000,000
residents live in shanty towns.
Denver, Colorado
• Low-density Suburbs.
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Belfast, Ireland
In Europe only 52% of households
live in a house. In Ireland that
rate is 92%, the highest in Europe.
Goteborg, Sweden
Fishing village.
Pullman, Washington
Wheat farm
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Manhattan, New York
Financial District
Village north of Antananarivo,
Madagascar
Madagascar is one of the 15
poorest countries.
Gobi, Mongolia
Desert
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Venice, Italy
Sea level is rising ¼” per year.
Tokyo, Japan
In 1800 only London had more
than 1 million people. Today 326
cities have over 1 million.
Mount Trafalgar, Australia
• In aboriginal culture, Mount Trafalgar
symbolizes harmony between humans and
the earth.
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Copenhagen, Denmark
• A planned community where each parcel
holder has a lot of 4,305 square feet.
Honshu, Japan
• Livestock farming is becoming separate
from crops, breaking the natural cycle that
returns to the soil the organic matter that
the animals took from the ground when
feeding.
New York
• Golf Club at Chelsea Piers.
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Floating Village on Tonle Sap lake,
Cambodia
• The 4th largest freshwater fishery in the
world.
Bavaria, Germany
• About 1/3 of Europe is in forests.
Forested areas hit a low in the 18th and
19th centuries, and are now expanding at
the expense of agricultural land
land.
Rajasthan, India
• Lake Palace. Formally the royal family’s
summer house, now a hotel and
restaurant.
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Countryside near Siena, Italy
• Vineyards, olive trees, corn and barley
fields punctuated with medieval villages.
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