Mr. G
This is the year that Mr. Gaspar graduated from High school
What is 2016?
The sphere made of gases and airs that surrounds Earth and supports life.
What is Atmosphere?
The field that studies beliefs, customs, languages, and traditions of groups of people.
What is Cultural Geography?
The study that looks at how humans positively or negatively affect the environment.
What is Environmental Geography?
Which theme best matches building a dam to generate electricity or cutting down a tree?
What is HEI?
This is the year that Mr. Gaspar graduated university
What is 2020?
All water on Earth — oceans, lakes, rivers, and ice — is this sphere.
What is hydrosphere?
This field of human geography looks at population size, distribution, and migration of the people.
What is Population Geo?
Cutting down forests and destroying animal homes is an example of this negative process.
What is Habitat Destruction?
A Wal-Mart or McDonald's that people recognize but which doesn't have a unique address is this theme.
What is place?
This is the school that Mr. Gaspar is attending for his Masters.
What is Sacramento State?
Rocks, soil, mountains, and Earth's crust belong to this sphere.
What is Geosphere?
The process by which cultural traits, ideas, or goods spread from one place to another (e.g., pizza spreading worldwide).
What is cultural diffusion?
The practice of using resources responsibly to meet present needs without harming future generations
What is sustainability?
A map showing borders between Mexico and California (U.S. state) emphasizes which theme.
What is region?
This is a sport that Mr. Gaspar played in high school and is not very good at. It starts with a G.
What is Golf?
The sphere that includes all living organisms and ecosystems on Earth.
What is Biosphere?
The term for reasons that force people to leave a place — drought causing farmers to leave is an example.
What is a push factor?
The long-term shifts in global temperatures and weather patterns caused in part by human activity.
What is climate change?
An area that has an address or exact coordinate. Ex: 2456 Bike Lane
What is location?
What is Social Justice?
Explain in 1 sentence how two of the 4 physical spheres interact to support or harm life.
Water gives life to plants and humans.
Pollutions makes it hard to breathe and live.
This branch examines inequalities, discrimination, and social structures in human populations.
What is Social Geography?
Provide one well-reasoned negative environmental impact and one possible mitigation strategy if a new data center used 500 billion gallons of water per year.
Less water for people.
Gets rid of land and employs more pollution.
Explain whether you would support building a massive water-using data center at the site of a zoo, and include at least two environmental or social reasons for your position.
Yes and explain why?
No and explain why?