GEOG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Glocalization, Semiotics, Reductionism
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Readings big concepts and definitions: introduction and conclusions, special boxes. For the video, know the story and the big ideas. 13 short answer questions: good description, good details, may write in bullet points (detailed, read them carefully and provide the right number of examples. 8 matching questions: concept or term matched with its counterpart, there may be more than one correct answer. 18 multiple choice questions: only one best answer. We cant always assume direction of landscape change: is it becoming more desert or agriculture. French colonialist example thought that the inhabitants were deforesting, but rather the clumps of trees were new. Conservationists say that woody biomes is a good thing. Ranchers disagree and burn it because it destroys grazing fields. Peru fruit trees, swidden fallow agriculture, bat and bird seed dispersal: make trails, birds and bats fly along the trails, trails are flyways, defecating the seeds producing a high amount of fruit trees along the trails.