Environmental History Study guide

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Environmental HistoryStudy guide Review

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  gained from your notes, text, and lectures that I
  have given. You will be graded on this
  assignment.

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following

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  as many questions as you possibly can. If you
  have trouble with one of the questions, please
  make an educated guess and proceed.
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Question 1

• Around 180 million years ago a huge land mass
  known as ________ began to break apart.
• Pangaea
• Laramide
• Glaciations
• Epoch

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Question 2

• What event caused the extinction
• of the great predators across the Bering
  Straight through North America.
• Earthquake
• Continental Drift
• Pleistocene Epoch
• Milankovitch Cycle

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Pleistocene Epoch

• When the Paleo-Indian arrived on the Great
  Plains, they found it teeming with large mammals,
  so called megafunga. Do to the Pleistocene Epoch
  in where severe points of change in global
  climate, caused extreme cold like that of an Ice
  age. They were all driven to extinction

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Milankovitch Cycle

• Named after a geophysicist back in the 1920s. He
  observed, the earths orbit around the sun
  changes, sometimes placing the planet closer to
  the star, where it can receive more heat, and
  sometimes further away, making the climate colder
  and producing a glaciations.

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Pangea

• American history began some 180 million years ago
  when the earths only continent, a huge land mass
  known as Pangaea, began to break apart. At first
  Pangaea split into two parts. As the Atlantic
  expanded, North America separated from Africa. By
  about 60 million years ago, North America was
  born.

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Laramide Orogeny

• The creation of the mountains beginning around 80
  million years ago is known as the Laramide
  Orogeny. The Great Plains were a tremendous
  inland sea, the emergence of the mountains,
  however, plugged the waters entry from the
  Pacific and Artic oceans, creating conditions
  favorable of forest cover on the plains.

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Slash Burn

• The Indian were the first to use this technique
  to clear vast landscapes, altering there
  environment to fit their needs. They did this for
  a number of reasons mosquitoes, fleas, hunting
  parties as well as travel. Although the Europeans
  intensified the process it began long before
  European contact.

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Question 3

• This observable phenomenon is where the earths
  orbit around the sun changes, sometimes placing
  the planet closer to the star, is referred to as
  the _________.
• Glaciations
• McCormic event
• Milankovitch cycle
• Ecological Niche

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Question 5

• The emergence of mountain ranges, and the later
  forest cover of the Great Plains was attributed
  to the __________.
• Laramide Orogeny
• Plate convergence
• Mineral displacement
• Breadbasket

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Question 4

• The Indians used this technique
• First to make travel and hunting
• Easier, as well as a defense against
• Fleas and mosquitoes.
• A. Fortification
• B. Slash Burn
• C. Signals
• D. Lousing

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Question 6

• The first colony to settle in North America was
  the _________ colony.
• Jamestown
• Roanoke
• Plymouth
• Towson

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Roanoke

• In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh,
• the English courier and
• navigator, recruited 117 people men, women,
  and children to venture to the New World. Their
  destination was off the coast of North Carolina
  now named Roanoke Island. With war in Spain
  delaying returns, when new settlers arrived it
  was a Lost Colony.

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