HGP100 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Paris Club, Urban Sprawl, Neighbourhood Character
16 Sep 2016
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System: a set of interrelated components or objects linked together to form a unified whole. Ecology: the study of relationships between organisms and their environments. Ecosystem: an ecological system: comprises a set of interacting and interdependent organisms and their physical, chemical and biological environment. Energy: the capacity of a physical system for doing work. Technology: the ability to convert energy into forms useful to humans. Domestication: the process of making plans and or animals more useful to humans through selective breeding. Agricultural revolution: the slow transition beginning about 12,000 years ago from foraging to food production through plant and animal domestication. Industrial revolution: the process that converted a fundamentally rural society into an industrial society beginning in england, primarily a technological revolution associated with new energy sources. Stock resources: minerals and land that take a long time to form and hence from a human perspective, are fixed in supply.
