GEOG 1001 : Exam 1 Geog STEVEN
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Culture learned and shared behavior by a group of people empoewering them with a distinct. Way of life ; it includes both material (technology, tools, etc. ) and non-material (speech, religion, values, etc. ) components. Global warming the increase in global temperatures as a result of the magnification of the natural greenhouse effect due to human produced pollutants. The resulting climate change could cause profound and probably damaging changes to earth"s environments. Greenhouse effect the natural process of lower atmosphere heating that results from the traping of incoming and reradiated solar energy by water moisture, clouds, and other atmospheric gases. Carbon dioxide (more than 50%) coal and petroleum. Chlorofluorocarbons (cfcs) 25% from ac, refrigeration, aerosols. Methane (ch4) 16% and inc. burning vegetation, cattle and sheep effluent, anaerobic activity in rice fields, refinery leaks, tundra melt. Globalization the increasing interconnectedness of people an place throughout the world through converging processes of economic, political, and cultural change.
