Wikipedia:Contents/Human activities

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Human activities are the various actions for recreation, living, or necessity done by people. For instance it includes leisure, entertainment, manufacturing, recreation, war, and exercise.

Human activities: Overviews; Outlines; Lists; Portals; Glossaries; Categories; Indices

Overview

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Human activity – Arts • Childraising (Babysitting, Child care) • Crime (Harassment, Homicide) • Educating (Learning, Teaching) • Entertainment • Exercise • Exploration (Underwater exploration, Space exploration) • Globalization • Hobbies • Industrialisation • Innovation • Law enforcement • Learning • Leisure activities • Management • Massage • Medicine • Navigation • Philosophy • Politics (Governance) • Publishing • Recreation • Practicing religion (Worship) • Reproduction • Resource consumption • Sex • Shopping • Spending • Sport • Thinking • Transporting • Traveling • Underwater diving • Warfare

Agriculture – Fisheries management • Fishing • Forestry • Gardening • Horticulture • Ranching

Business – Business administration • Finance • Industry • Investing • Manufacturing • Marketing • Trading

Communicating – Conversing • Listening • Reading • Talking • Writing

Telecommunicating – Broadcasting (Radio broadcasting, Television broadcasting) • Email • Web navigation

Science – Applied science • Formal science • Natural science • Physical science • Social science

Impact of human activity – Cars, effects on society • Population growth • Human overpopulation • Overconsumption • War, effects of

Human impact on the environment – Biodiversity loss • Conservation • Defaunation • Deforestation • Desertification • Ecological crises • Environmental degradation • Environmentalism • Forest degradation • Global warming • Habitat destruction • Habitat fragmentation • Holocene extinction event • Land degradation • Ocean acidification • Ozone depletion • Pollution • Resource depletion

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Human activity – intentional, purposive, conscious and subjectively meaningful sequences of actions.

Agriculture
The arts – vast subdivision of culture, composed of many creative endeavors and disciplines. The arts encompasses visual arts, literary arts and the performing arts.
Communication
Education
Entertainment
Exercise
Government
Industry
Law enforcement
Philosophy
Politics
Religion
Science
- Applied science – application of scientific knowledge transferred into a physical environment. Examples include all fields of engineering.
- Formal science – branch of knowledge with many subbranches which are concerned with formal systems. Unlike other sciences, the formal sciences are not concerned with the validity of theories based on observations in the real world, but instead with the properties of formal systems based on definitions and rules.
- Natural science – major branch of science that tries to explain and predict nature's phenomena, based on empirical evidence. In natural science, hypotheses must be verified scientifically to be regarded as scientific theory. Validity, accuracy, and social mechanisms ensuring quality control, such as peer review and repeatability of findings, are among the criteria and methods used for this purpose.
- Social science – study of the world and its cultures and civilizations. Social science has many branches, each called a "social science".
Sports – organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means. Generally speaking, a sport is a game based in physical athleticism.
Transport – the transfer of people or things from one place to another.
Underwater diving – practice of people descending below the water's surface to interact with the environment.
- Underwater divers
- Recreational dive sites
War – state of armed conflict between states, governments, societies and informal paramilitary groups, such as mercenaries, insurgents and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces.