Cabrillo College Library

Biodiversity
1. Definitions
2. Hotspots
3. Biological & cultural diversity
4. Calif. bioregions


Desertification
1. Causes
2. Defintions

Global Warming
1. Background info
2. Potential outcomes

How to Get to This Page

This page was created for use with GEOG 2: Cultural Geography taught at Cabrillo College by Keith Ducote

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Biodiversity
1. Definitions
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2. Biodiversity Hotspots Conservation International (CI) has identified biologically rich areas under the greatest threat of destruction as biodiversity hotspots, and concentrates conservation in these areas to have the most impact. 

Click on "Hotspots Explorer." (It's an interactive map; you'll need Flash.) Select either Philippines or Mesoamerica

Area selected: _________________________________

Summarize 3 major points about the hotspot: 

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3. Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity

What are some of the ways in which cultural and biological diversity are interrelated? What is "sustainable use" of natural resources?
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4. California's Bioregions
  • Go to California's Bioregions from the California Biodiversity Council
  • Click on Central Coast
  • Scroll down and click on  Maps and Spatial Data. Explore a couple of the maps offered (e.g.,
  • California vegetation; or land ownership) 
  • Make notes here about what types of information are provided: 
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Desertification
1. Causes 
    What are some of the causes and consequences of desertification? 

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2. Definitions
  • Go to Desertification and Climate Change published on the Web as part of the Tiempo series from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. 
    According to the authors, what defines desertification and how is desertification distinguished from drought and desiccation? 

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    What do the authors say about the relationship between dryland degradation and global warming? 

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Global Warming
1. Background Information
    Explore a couple of the questions and answers, and summarize what you learned: 

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2. Potential Outcomes
  • Go to Global Warming  from the Woods Hole Research Center 
  • Click on Potential Outcome (over on left)
    Read the analysis and summarize what you see as the most important potential outcome of the warming of the earth:

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  • Go to EPA Global Warming (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
  • Click on Impacts
  • Click on State Impacts (over at left)
  • Select California
    What are some of the impacts predicted for California? 

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How to Get to This Page on the Internet
  1. Be on the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Click on Geography
  4. Scroll down, and under Course-Related Materials, click on GEOG 2, Cultural Geography, K. Ducote


K. Ducote; T. N. Smalley 
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