Explain what Carl Sauer meant when he urged geographers to use the landscape perspective
Sauer is credited with founding the landscape perspective in American geography, based on the method of studying the transformation through time of a natural landscape to a cultural landscape. Essentially, Sauer challenged us to think of what the world would look like without people and then understand what people have done to reshape the world through time.
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High and low tides are caused by
A) the tendency for water on a spinning globe to be thrown outward. B) daily heating and cooling of the seas, which causes seawater to contract and expand. C) a rise in sea level during the day because of an increase in storms. D) water being pulled by the gravity of the Moon. E) All of these are correct.
The stark contrast of high-rise modern office buildings and luxury housing with the slums and shantytowns of unintended metropolises is visual evidence of their
A) dualism. B) multiculturalism. C) gentrification. D) economic development. E) isotropism.
What does the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale tell us about an earthquake?
What will be an ideal response?
South America's western deserts are not true deserts because they lie near the ocean. Indicate whether the statement is true or false