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Movement is the idea that people, animals, and even plants, do not stay put. People move for many different reasons, like war, trade, etc. When people leave they often bring their ideas, views, thoughts, customs, foods, and rituals wherever they are going. Most people interact with other people places and things almost everyday of their lives. They travel from one place to another and rely upon products and ideas, to survive. Animals migrate for different reasons than humans; they usually migrate annually to avoid harsh weather and go where there is food. For example, the Han Dynasty in China. They used their forces to spread their culture farther and farther, trading products and ideas, to make themselves stronger. Sometimes, however countries try to prevent new ideas from spreading. Movement is one of the key pieces to how the world works and how each region, or even individual, thinks. | Movement is the idea that people, animals, and even plants, do not stay put. People move for many different reasons, like war, trade, etc. When people leave they often bring their ideas, views, thoughts, customs, foods, and rituals wherever they are going. Most people interact with other people places and things almost everyday of their lives. They travel from one place to another and rely upon products and ideas, to survive. Animals migrate for different reasons than humans; they usually migrate annually to avoid harsh weather and go where there is food. For example, the Han Dynasty in China. They used their forces to spread their culture farther and farther, trading products and ideas, to make themselves stronger. Sometimes, however countries try to prevent new ideas from spreading. Movement is one of the key pieces to how the world works and how each region, or even individual, thinks. | ||
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The Definition of region is an area on earth's surface defined by certain unifying characteristics or features. According to http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/feature a feature is a prominent or conspicuous part or characteristic. For instance, a mountain range is a physical feature, and skyscrapers are city or manmade features. This defining characteristic could be cultural, political, or physical. A physical characteristic is a natural feature, such as mountains, forests, lakes, rivers etcetera. Some examples of physical regions are mountainous regions, plains regions, and desert regions. Physical regions can also be areas of specific climates, such as a tropical region, dry region, or polar region. Political regions are areas of specific types of governments, and can be states, countries, or cites. Cultural regions are places where behaviors, dress, and food characterize the area. These regions can be big, like an entire country such as Mexico, whose culture defines them, or as small as an area of Houston. An example of an area in Houston would be China town, where all the stores are in Chinese and even a few street names are in Chinese. A website that was really helpful was: | The Definition of region is an area on earth's surface defined by certain unifying characteristics or features. According to http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/feature a feature is a prominent or conspicuous part or characteristic. For instance, a mountain range is a physical feature, and skyscrapers are city or manmade features. This defining characteristic could be cultural, political, or physical. A physical characteristic is a natural feature, such as mountains, forests, lakes, rivers etcetera. Some examples of physical regions are mountainous regions, plains regions, and desert regions. Physical regions can also be areas of specific climates, such as a tropical region, dry region, or polar region. Political regions are areas of specific types of governments, and can be states, countries, or cites. Cultural regions are places where behaviors, dress, and food characterize the area. These regions can be big, like an entire country such as Mexico, whose culture defines them, or as small as an area of Houston. An example of an area in Houston would be China town, where all the stores are in Chinese and even a few street names are in Chinese. A website that was really helpful was: | ||
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Notes: Be sure to include any vocabulary that needs definition in your larger notes on the ideas below
Flipchart on the Five Themes of Geography.
- What shapes the earth?
Many factors contribute to shaping the earth (changing places). Extraterrestrial forces such as meteors, asteroids, and earth's moon have played a part in the shaping of our planet. The friction from a constant shower of asteroids and meteors fed the earth energy in the form of heat, keeping it so hot that no organism yet lived on its surface accept for an iron-oxide bacteria called extremophiles that thrived in extreme conditions. Extremophiles in return released oxygen, which contributed in creating earth's atmosphere. Another example is how the moon's gravitational pull creates high and low tides on earth. Volcanic activity has also contributed to shaping the earth, because when a volcano erupts and lava flows out, new land is formed, with the exception of a caldera where a mountain can be destroyed. For example, Yellowstone is a caldera and Old Faithful is proof that water beneath the surface is being heat by the lava 40 miles below the surface, causing it to rise in an explosion of liquid and gas. Plate tectonics have played an huge part in shaping earth's surface since the earth's crust began to cool. Mantle convection pushes plates together and pulls them apart constantly, creating land formations such as mountains like the Himalayas, and deep see trenches like the Marianas Trench. An example dating back to Pangaea would be how the northeast edge of South America fits almost perfectly with the nook in Africa's land mass. A scientist following through with his theory on this observation took rock samples of basalt from 135 million years ago that he found in Argentina and matched it with that found in Namibia.
- Define Physical Place.
- Define Cultural Place
- Define Human and Environmental Interaction
Human and Environmental Interaction is the way that humans treat the the environment and the way that the environment treats humans. Sometimes humans cause major affects to the environments ecosystems, destroying the base of the ecosystem which causes a chain reaction that causes the whole thing to collapse like plankton in the sea. Also humans can change the way an area is shaped, such as building a city on top of it like Houston or blasting holes through mountains to make tunnels. Even little things that humans do change geography like filling the land for the base of a house, or when a mine shaft collapses. Now nature can alter a civilizations course of life just as much as humans can alter an ecosystem. Pompeii is a great example of nature changing humanity, when an entire city gets buried from the ash of a volcano. Or the earthquake in Haiti destroying almost everything that had once stood there. Human and environmental interactions are some of the most major factors of how the earth is shaped today.
- Define Movement
Movement is the idea that people, animals, and even plants, do not stay put. People move for many different reasons, like war, trade, etc. When people leave they often bring their ideas, views, thoughts, customs, foods, and rituals wherever they are going. Most people interact with other people places and things almost everyday of their lives. They travel from one place to another and rely upon products and ideas, to survive. Animals migrate for different reasons than humans; they usually migrate annually to avoid harsh weather and go where there is food. For example, the Han Dynasty in China. They used their forces to spread their culture farther and farther, trading products and ideas, to make themselves stronger. Sometimes, however countries try to prevent new ideas from spreading. Movement is one of the key pieces to how the world works and how each region, or even individual, thinks.
- Define Region Physical and Cultural
The Definition of region is an area on earth's surface defined by certain unifying characteristics or features. According to http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/feature a feature is a prominent or conspicuous part or characteristic. For instance, a mountain range is a physical feature, and skyscrapers are city or manmade features. This defining characteristic could be cultural, political, or physical. A physical characteristic is a natural feature, such as mountains, forests, lakes, rivers etcetera. Some examples of physical regions are mountainous regions, plains regions, and desert regions. Physical regions can also be areas of specific climates, such as a tropical region, dry region, or polar region. Political regions are areas of specific types of governments, and can be states, countries, or cites. Cultural regions are places where behaviors, dress, and food characterize the area. These regions can be big, like an entire country such as Mexico, whose culture defines them, or as small as an area of Houston. An example of an area in Houston would be China town, where all the stores are in Chinese and even a few street names are in Chinese. A website that was really helpful was: http://www.csustan.edu/teachered/facultystaff/betts/handouts/pdfs/five%20themes%20of%20geography.pdf
