GEOL 102-6 Section 20: Geological Impacts on Civilizations

Written Homework Questions (02b)

Brief Written Answers due Thursday 12 January 2005

(one or two sentences each)

1. Explain Diamond's proposed relationship between lifestyle (agricultural vs. hunter-gather), relative transience of housing, and spacing of births.
2. What are Diamond's suggested barriers to the spread of crops and livestock between southwestern and southeastern North America?
3. What agriculutural advantages does Andrews claim are bestowed by deposits of loess soil from episodes of glaciation?
4. What two reasons does Andrews suggest for the movement of early European farmers from low-ground settlements to high-ground villages?
5. How fast does Kerr estimate the rise of water levels in the Black Sea to have been as water spilled over the Bosphorous?
6. What is a "castro" in the photograph from Portugal?