01.01 Assignment
Historians apply geographic skills in order to learn about the past and solve historical problems. Complete the two parts of the following written assignment to show your understanding of these skills. Part 1
Explore the interactive maps to answer the three questions in Part 1 of this assignment. If you need to review how to use a map's scale, please go to the Locating Places section of the Map Tutorial and read through page 3. Please remember to submit your responses for Part 1 and Part 2 to your instructor in the assessment area. 1. Using the scale on the interactive map, give the approximate distance in miles that the Pilgrims traveled in their journey from Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts. The
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Orlando is about 221.7 miles south of Hollywood. South Carolina is about 618.2 miles from Hollywood. Hollywood is a very hot and humid place. There are no mountains and hills it’s all flat land. It doesn’t snow it is summer all year. However, we do have rainfall during the months of April to July. There are many different ethnicities that live in Hollywood Florida. The city has a heavy Hispanic population. There are two large ethnic groups that live in Hollywood which are Puerto Ricans, and Cubans. 2. Convince someone to move to a U.S. city of your choice, by describing the location using terms from the lesson. Be sure to include the name of the city and state you are writing about and make your response at least one paragraph in length. You would love to live in the Big Apple also known as New York City. There are many people who live in city. New York is a very well known city in the United States. New York is its own region. It is an airport hub, and has many tourists that come to the city every year. New York is known for the towering Skyline. The two landmark dominant buildings that are in Manhattan are the Empire State, and Rockefeller Center. New York’s climate is subtropical. New York has four seasons! During the summer it is very hot and humid, in winter it is very cold and snowy so you will have to take out your scarves, gloves, coats, and boots! In the fall it is cool but the leaves turn orange, green, and yellow it is very
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
Geography will never mean the same to me, the more I read the more I’ve learned it’ so much more than land and boundaries. What I’ve learned from this literature it seems to be the study of issues that affect people and the environment, and ways to solve the world’s problems. Geography is important because it affects all aspects of life. No matter what you are talking or thinking about geography is somehow involved. Everything in the world has a direct connection to place, location, interaction, movement, and region.
Geography had a tremendous impact on early civilizations, the topography of the different regions played a key role in their development and formation. This statement by Fernand Braudel “ Geography is the stage in which humanity’s endless dramas are played out” (Getz et al., Exchanges, 26) is a very moving and telling description. The terrain, whether it is natural or man made is not the end all, be all. It does however affect the stage a great deal. Mountainous areas act as blockades, which keep the societies independent, plains open up the area, and rivers enable everything to move around freely. 2
There is lots of strategies that have led the ancient empires to their success and staying strong. .Geography was a huge part of history, this is because many people live upon geography. They rely on geography to live. To add on, the success and failures all come from geography, which is very important. Ancient Egypt had many ups and downs through their empire, geography helped them a lot for planting crops and getting resources. Ancient Greece was affected by the geography near their location a lot. The Aksum empire heavily relied on the geography near their empire, it helped them a lot with the way they traded with other empires. In all of the empires, geography was the breaker or the winner and determined whether the empire would fall or
1. In a compared map of the Holy Land and the state of New Jersey, there are not a lot of differences in the amount of land. Although the Holy Land does not provide important resources, people have been fighting over it throughout history.
1. Study the Memoir for the Marquis de Seignelay (Links to an external site.) and the 1699 Map of North America (Links to an external site.) and respond to each of the following questions in at least three complete sentences.
S- it shows how when people migrate they bring ideas and culture with them. For example this is why there can be four different languages being spoken in one place.
1. The reasons why some buildings are in the floodplains is because of agricultural industry. Another reason is population growth and expansion into those areas where people felt safe because of improvements of levees. Even though people were told about the dangers most people relied on disaster insurance instead of flood insurance. There should be laws that prohibit further development of these areas because it is costing the taxpayers lots of money for people that want to live in these areas that know the risks. If there were laws in place they could use some of the land as soccer fields and football fields as overflow ponds if they do want to build in a floodplain they need to raise the ground up by hauling in soils that will let the water pass through into those overfill ponds.
Centralized Government made to establish rules and maintain order; as well as handle diplomatic matters.
1A.1.) A nation is a unified group of people with a common culture. An example of a nation without a state is the Kurds.This is because the Kurds do not have a state of their own since the Kurdish land includes parts of Iraq, Syria and Armenia and the Kurdish people are often the majority in cities in this region.
1. Global warring 2. The increase in the temperature 3. The south the farmers burn rain forest 4.
1. Describe the problems that arise when the curves of a globe become straight lines on a map. Answer: The problem is that distortion can happen in shape, distance, area or direction.
1. The factors that are listed in 1.2 are world population growth, ecological disturbances, technological advancements, microbial evolution and adaptation, and human behavior and attitudes. World population growth can impact the spread because if we are looking at just one area of people that is extremely crowded and one of them has a disease; by person to person contact it can spread more easily compared to an area of people that is less compacted with people. Ecological disturbances such as climate changes, and natural disasters, can increase spreading of Zika because climate has a lot to do with where the mosquitos, and they also need places to live. If we had a natural disaster such as a flood, that is a lot of water and that’s what mosquitos
1) Modern astronomy basically begins with the re-emergence of the heliocentric view of the universe by Copernicus. Who were the four other major contributors to the development of modern astronomy after Copernicus? Explain what those contributions were. Finally, why did it take so long for the geocentric view of the universe to be overthrown and what does that tell us about scientific research and our society, even today?
Chapter 14 was an interesting read for me because I am a millineall, having been born in 1989. I want to focus on the economic problem for millinialls. College is expensive but graduating with 26,000 dollars in debt plus another 7,000 dollars on credit cards is ridiculous. Neither of my parents are college graduates because they didn't have the money at the time and they pushed me really hard to start taking classes again. Financially it can be hard but finally earning a degree and then having a hard time finding a job and owing over 30,000 dollars is really depressing. I have a friend who has a master in accounting and has had a hard time finding work and he owes over 80 thousand dollars in stident loans. There has to be a way for us to