Human Geography
How does Geography let us understand and appreciate the diversity of those around us
Learning about different cultures
Studying these 2 parts of nature lets us learn about the categories of food we eat
Plants and animals
Water used for drinking, cleaning, growing food, transportation, and manufacturing. Water events like flooding or tsunamis. These are reasons:
People settle close to or away from water
Types of issues that impacts the environment and types that have a monetary impact are:
Environmental and economic impacts
The study of what happens when money is involved
economic systems
Mountains, deserts and oceans are examples of these
Physical features of the earth
Milano and Cortina
Types of issues that impacts people and types that impact relationships with other countries or communities are:
Social and political impacts
Push and pull factors such as how much food is available or protection from war are reasons humans:
Migrate from one country to another
Natural Resources
Training residents to know what to do when encountering coyotes or closing down a road when the salamanders need to migrate to their breeding ground are examples of animals being affected by this:
An increase in high density development
This place uses waste matter to heat the entire city, they construct new buildings with insulated windows and encourage walking or biking instead of using cars
Sweden
These 2 examples of population characteristics help countries track how their population is growing and shrinking
birth rate, death rate
These 2 things are studied to understand the ground beneath us and the valuable materials we extract from it
rocks and minerals
The earth is getting warmer which causes glaciers and ice sheets to melt as well as water in general getting warmer which leads to this:
Rising sea levels
This creates new land in large bodies of water by filling in rock or cement then covering it in clay or dirt
Land Reclamation
How humans interact and impact the earth
These are partly about weather and partly made of the patterns of temperature, precipitation and seasonal changes
Climate zones
What are 2 ways rising sea levels can change things for humans
Possible answers: Flooding, lack of food, forced migration away from coasts, change in ocean currents that leads to changing climates
These 5 countries are effected by land claim issues or land reclamation
Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Netherlands and Kenya