[GEOG M109] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (125 pages long!)
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Geog m109 human impact on the biophysical environment: what science has learned. Human activities that have changed and will continue to change the earth"s environment: Top 10 warmest years (1880-2013: 2010, 2005, 1998, 2013, 2003, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2007, 2004, tied with 2012 and 2014. Introduction to ideas of human impact on climate. Late 18th and early 19th century: development of ideas of global warming began with studies of torrents of the alps (deforestation in the alps) greatly enhanced the realization of human capacity to change the environment. Count buffon (french naturalist): first western scientist to be concerned with human impact on environment. He compared the appearances of inhabited and uninhabited land: Fabre jean-henri (french entomologist): studied deforestation in the alps. Found that deforestation brought flooding, siltation, erosion, division of water courses, and lower water levels in alpine lakes. Alexander von humboldt (naturalist and traveler): traveled to the americas and studied lake valencia (venezuela)
