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  2. Human echolocation - Wikipedia

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    Human echolocation is the ability of humans to detect objects in their environment by sensing echoes from those objects, by actively creating sounds: for example, by tapping their canes, lightly stomping their foot, snapping their fingers, or making clicking noises with their mouths.

  3. Acoustic location - Wikipedia

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    Animal echolocation, animals emitting sound and listening to the echo in order to locate objects or navigate; Echo sounding, listening to the echo of sound pulses to measure the distance to the bottom of the sea, a special case of sonar; Gunfire locator; Human echolocation, the use of echolocation by blind people; Human bycatch

  4. Echolocation - Wikipedia

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    Animal echolocation, non-human animals emitting sound waves and listening to the echo in order to locate objects or navigate. Human echolocation , the use of sound by people to navigate. Sonar ( so und n avigation a nd r anging), the use of sound on water or underwater, to navigate or to locate other watercraft, usually by submarines.

  5. Geography - Wikipedia

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    The difference between these approaches led to the development of integrated geography, which combines physical and human geography and concerns the interactions between the environment and humans. [21] Technical geography involves studying and developing the tools and techniques used by geographers, such as remote sensing, cartography, and ...

  6. Wikipedia:Wikipedia for Schools/Welcome/Geography/Human ...

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    Development geography is the study of the Earth's geography with reference to the standard of living and the quality of life of its human inhabitants, study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities, across the Earth. The subject matter investigated is strongly influenced by the researcher's methodological ...

  7. Human geography - Wikipedia

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    Development geography is the study of the Earth's geography with reference to the standard of living and the quality of life of its human inhabitants, study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities, across the Earth. The subject matter investigated is strongly influenced by the researcher's methodological ...

  8. Animal navigation - Wikipedia

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    Internal 'maps' are often formed using vision, but other senses including olfaction and echolocation may also be used. The ability of wild animals to navigate may be adversely affected by products of human activity. For example, there is evidence that pesticides may interfere with bee navigation, and that lights may harm turtle navigation.

  9. Geographical exploration - Wikipedia

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    This broader knowledge of the world's geography meant that people were able to make world maps, depicting all land known. The first modern atlas was the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum , published by Abraham Ortelius , which included a world map that depicted all of Earth's continents.