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Five Themes of Geography. Using your notes you will identify the following:. Location Absolute relative Place Physical Cultural/human Movement People Goods Ideas Regions Formal Functional V ernacular Human Environmental Interaction Humans adapt to the environment
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Location • Absolute • relative • Place • Physical • Cultural/human • Movement • People • Goods • Ideas • Regions • Formal • Functional • Vernacular • Human Environmental Interaction • Humans adapt to the environment • Humans modify the environment • Humans depend on the environment
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Nestled deep in the tropical rainforest on the island of Borneo, Pareh is a collection of about 60 weathered wooden houses perched on stilts and enfolded by coconut palms, banana trees, and the dappled green overhang of the towering forest. Pareh's inhabitants belong to the indigenous tribes of Borneo collectively identified as the Dayak. They have lived here for centuries, raising rubber trees, pumpkin, cassava, and rice, and harvesting wood for fuel and lumber.
In 2005, a group of village men went hunting in the forest several hours from Pareh and stumbled on a clearing in which the trees had recently been felled. That was how they discovered that Perseroan TerbatasLedo Lestari, or ptll, a subsidiary of an Indonesian company named Duta Palma Nusantara, was seizing their ancestral land to establish a massive plantation of oil palms, a tree whose oil is rendered and refined into biodiesel.
The number of tiger attacks on people is growing in India’s Sundarban islands as habitat loss and dwindling prey caused by climate change drives them to prowl into villages for food, experts said on Monday.
