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APES Chapter 2 Vocabulary
Hunter-gatherers
Slash-and –burn
Shifting cultivation
Agricultural revolution
Industrial revolution
Information Revolution
Important People in Environmental History
Henry David Thoreau
John Muir
Teddy Roosevelt
Rachel Carson
Aldo Leopold.
Chapter Two-Homework Questions
1. Define three major cultural and environmental changes that
have occurred since humans were hunter-gatherers.
2. Describe the environmental history of the United States in
terms of the Tribal and Frontier Eras, the Early Conservation
Era, and the Environmental Era.
3. Compare slash-and-burn agricultural practices with the
modern advanced forms of farming. State the advantages
and disadvantages of each.
4. List 10 individuals (including the 5 listed above) who made
major contributions to conservation/environmental movements
in the United States and briefly describe these contributions.
HunterGatherers
Society
My Environmental Worldview
Industrial
Agricultural
Division of Power &
Labor
Relationship of
Population to Food
Supply
Relationship of
Humans to Nature
Use of Resources
Environmental
Impacts
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My Environmental Worldview
I believe humans are:
I believe other species are:
I believe our responsibility to the earth’s resources is:
I believe we should value and respect: