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Environmental Geography

Lecture 6Spread of Humans and Agriculture

Lecture 6: Human Dispersal and Adaptation

I. Human Dispersal

II. Rise of Human Populations

III. Frontier Environments and The Modern Threat

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I. Human Dispersal

I. Rise of Human Populations

Spread of Agriculture

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I. Rise of Human Populations

Geographic areas of human occupation:

1. Developed areas2. Developing

areas3. Frontier areas or

environments

I. Human Dispersal

Change in original forest cover in the United States as a result of lumbering and land clearing between the time of the Pilgrims and the 1920’s.

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I. Human Dispersal

Core areas of tropical forest and dryland in relation to global population distribution.

I. Human Dispersal