APHG 1.5 HEI Vocabulary

The philosophical viewpoint that the physical environment offers human beings a set of opportunities from which people may choose according to their cultural needs and technological awareness.

The study of how the physical terrain is utilized, modified, and organized by people.

Natural resources that are potentially inexhaustible either because it is constantly or periodically replenished as lon as its use does not exceed its maximum sustainable yield.

The study of the interactions between societies and the natural environments they occupy.

The natural landscape as modified by human activities and bearing the imprint of a culture group or society; the built environment

The view that the physical environment, particularly climate, control human action, molds human behavior, and conditions cultural development.

Features or materials in the environment that a population perceives to be necessary and useful to its maintenance and well-being.

This is another name for cultural ecology.

The use of Earth's renewable and non-renewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future.

Natural resources that are not replenished or replaced by natural processes or is used at a rate that exceeds its replacement rate.