Squirrels Eating Almonds

 What is going on in the photo?
 This picture was taken outside of a hotel in California on Friday September sixteenth. The picture is of a black squirrel, which are more commonly found in California. My dad took this photo while he is on a business trip.
 How is it SPECIFIC to a Human Geography concept from the current unit or previous unit?
 This image is specific to Environmental Determinism and Hierarchical Diffusion. It is Environmental Determinism because the almonds, which is the physical environment factor, has caused society to come together and see what was causing deaths due to the almonds and to try and find another way to eat the almonds. This is also Hierarchical Diffusion because the spread of the idea about a toxin in the almonds from a person to other places and people.  
 
 Link the image to one of the Five Themes of Geography (Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and Region) with an explanation of how it relates.
 This picture is related to the Human Environment theme of geography because a while ago, squirrels were dying when they ate the bitter almonds, apple seeds, and other plants used as a food source. When people were watching the squirrels eat these food sources, they realized that the squirrels were dying when eating those, where as they were not dying when they ate none bitter almonds. From watching the squirrels, scientists discovered that those bitter almonds and fruit seeds contained cyanide. The squirrels eating bitter almonds helped us to search for good food sources that wouldn't lower our population rate at a brisk pace. But just because there are bitter almonds, it doesn't mean that all almonds have cyanide. The non- bitter almonds do not contain any of the toxin. If an edible part of the plant contains the toxin, it is easy to get rid of. You can get rid of it by wash the plant or even by gentle mashing it.  For an each fact, it takes about twenty bitter almonds to bring upon the death of an adult. (The word count is 348).