Earth: Man’s Home

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Year Published: 1970

Copyright: Registered 24Feb70 · MP20771 (Jul-Dec 1970) Copyright holder: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corp

Complete Record: Explains that air, food, water, and temperature are necessary considerations when choosing a place to live and discusses why some areas on earth are more densely populated than others. Introduces the study of maps and shows how they can be interpreted as to population, vegetation, and political structures. Relates the need of man to take his environment with him into space.