There are six elements in geography. The first one is the world is spatial terms. The purpose of this element is to examine the disbursement of people, places, and environments. This has a lot to do with previous topics our class has talked about like absolute and relative location. They relate because to find where the areas are disbursed, the location needs to be known. This relates to me because, since this element covers where things are in the world, and if I needed to find my way somewhere, I could easily get there with a map. The second element is places and regions. Places have unique characteristics to determine the differences between them. A region is a general area that has something(s) in common which is determined by geographers. An example could be the houses by the harbor in …show more content…
Movement is the way things like people, ideas, and information move around such as refugees to a new country because of war. A negative example of this element would be the amount of trees the paper industry cuts down. This element affects me because throughout the day I do lots of things that will affect the Earth, for example, throw away trash, take the bus to and from school, and help my mom in the garden. Environment and society are the fifth element. This is how humans effect the environment and how the environment effects humans. A good effect would be when the environment has great soil for growing crops that you can sell in a market for a living, This element effects me because since the weather is different everyday, especially in Maine, I have to dress for the warm or cold weather, and if its hot or cold we use the AC or heater in the car, which then sends exhaust into the air. The last element is the uses of geography. Geography is used everyday from mapping to where you are going to understanding the history of our area. Geography helps you understand what is happen at this moment in time and create a better understanding of the relationship you have with he
Chapter one in the book, Human Geography, gives a timeline of the changes that have occurred since the creation of planet Earth. The author, John Rennie Short, explained how truly powerful the earth itself is. It has the ability to wipe out humanity. We often blame nature when natural disasters happen, but perhaps the human race may have something to do with the cause of environmental hazards like volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, and earthquakes.
Human- Environment Interaction is how humans are involved with the land around them and how their actions affect others. If farmers used up all the minerals in one field, they would use a different field to let the depleted one recover.
The Five Themes of Geography are: Location – Absolute points on a map or grid or Relative to where something may be; Place – The physical and/or human characteristics of a locations; Human/Environment Interactions – How humans have impacted the landscape or environment; Relationship between places Movement – How humans interact on the earth (i.e. how they communicate over distance (short or long)) and Regions – a unit of space that has commonalities defined by physical, human and environmental geography. The Explorers of the New World may have not known what the Five Themes of Geography were but they quickly learned. Of the five themes the ones that they all took advantage of was the physical Location and Place as they learned to navigate
Cronulla is a beachside suburb in southern Sydney, it is located 34.0574° S, 151.1522° E which is 26 kilometres south of the Sydney CBD (see figure 2). It is governed by the Sutherland Shire Council. Cronulla’s coastal environment is on the Kurnell Peninsula, which is made up of a tombolo. A tombolo is a sand spit connecting a rocky outcrop or island to the mainland. So this forms a barrier between Botany Bay and Bate Bay. The two areas of study visited were Wanda Beach and the Greenhills Beach development.
As time passes by, with everything seeming in place, we push aside real life. Activities we like to pretend are not occurring are put on the bottom of the list. War, deadly tsunamis, earthquakes, terrorism, economic crisis, all real life changes which have occurred and are occurring now. People are becoming less knowledgeable than ever when it comes to geography. “Given the accelerating pace of change on our increasingly crowded planet, this may not be surprising- even if it is disturbing,” states Harm de Blij in his book “Why Geography Matters: More Than Ever.” While De Blij tells us how illiterate we have become to geography, he also explains to readers how American people could benefit from the knowledge of Geography in specific situations.
“Why Geography Matters More Than Ever,” was written by Harm De Blij. It was published August 17th 2012 by Oxford University Press, USA with 354 pages in it.
- One of the few countries in the world that combines a two-party system with a presidential form of government. Most former British colonies with single-member districts and strict two-party system have a parliamentary form of government.
The Great Wall of China was made out of rocks and stamped earth in the beginning, and then lime workshop and bricks slowly started getting poplular.
It is believed that our ancestors came from africa into eurasia. One thing that made human geography flourished was plant and animal domestication. When people became building water building bases, the most prominent cultures sustained local expansion. A thousand years ago China has the largest population and still does. The greatest changes over the past millennium were not with eurasia and africa but with america and australia because the europeans decimated the people already there. People in eurasia and africa and aboriginal australians, they had not changed their natural environment. One of the thing that changes the environment is climate change. The point is that boundaries are created to limit human movement.
The five themes of geography consist of the location, place, human environment interactions, movement, and regions of a place. These categories are also split up into for location and are relative, or the to refer to something next to it as a direction to find this location. Absolute location is the exact coordinates or direction for an location. There 's also two parts the physical characteristics, which is the land, ecosystem, and the
Conflict between nations over territories raises red flags in maps, as maps can “tell a lie”. Maps are sometimes made in a way to make the viewer believe in something else, a side of a story rather than the accurate exhibition of the true state of territories. There are many disputed grounds between nations. China had claimed some of India, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Taiwan’s territories in its 2012 passports which displayed a map of the country. But, maps like those are usually made with intention of showing what a country wants or what it believes it rightfully possesses. In doing this, there is a way to secure the physical implications that a country’s government governs farther out, therefore fabricating its reach of power farther outwards. Although, when the intention is to show possible future implications of near conflict, things change.
Our world, in the 21st century is more interconnected than ever before. The world is pacing faster than ever before. Take a look at biggest events of the 21st century: extreme climate change escorted by important weather ends; death-causing tsunamis caused by huge earthquakes; unique terrorist attacks across the globe; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan;a terrible and unnoticed crisis in Center Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international system. And many, many more. The answer lies in Why Geography Matters More than Ever; geography. Harm De Blij, author of the book explains that Americans statistically are the number one geographically illiterate country and De Blij also demonstrates
- A map is used as a communication tool when it depicts the distribution of human activity or
1. If you are New York and it is 8 a.m and you call your friend in Los Angeles, what Coast are you calling? What time will it be for them?
In conclusion, agriculture, domesticated animals, germs, and steel are all products that can be credited to geography and all helped Europe become the most powerful country in the world. Geography affects latitude which affects the climate of a region which impacts agriculture and domesticated animals, and all of the previous allow time to invent and build new tools and technology or lack of time and absence to the ability to evolve and progress in technology. Civilizations such as Europe were very fortunate with geography which meant agriculture, animals, germs, and steel would come with it. Generally, when a civilization has good crops and agriculture, the climate is suitable for domesticable animals, so people in the civilization build an