How Does Latitude And Longitude Affect Where People Live

Longitude by Dava Sobel was a book that explained in great detail the struggle to find longitude at sea and way it was so necessary. Sobel talked about the tragedies that followed with not finding longitude at sea and then the discoveries and trials that had occurred to find a final solution. Throughout the book, you understand the urgent need to find longitude why it was so hard, and what it really took in order to come to the final discovery. As you read through this paper you will get an understanding of the topics Sobel talked about in her book such as, the shipwrecks and tragedies that occurred without longitude at sea, the two competing methods to find longitude and the man who discovered it.

There are many factors that have contributed to my social location. The main ones that come to mind are my social class, my racial background, and my education. All around us are people who come from different areas of the world, or same areas of the world with very different demographics.

Work through the explanatory material on units of longitude and latitude, finding longitude and latitude, and a bit of history (optional).

Globalization- movement between people, ideas, and cultures. Moves people to interact on a global scale.

Work through the explanatory material on units of longitude and latitude, finding longitude and latitude, and a bit of history (optional).

Since Geography is such an important part of a story it is used to shape and compose a general feel and mind set while reading the story. In the article “Geography Matters” Thomas C. Foster covers the importance and the influence that geography can have on a story. In one section he references the geography of “ Italy or Greece or Africa or Malaysia or Vietnam” and how when characters are sent “south, it’s so they can run amok”(Foster 179). Thomas’s words relay a bias about having characters go to those geological areas and so if those areas were to be used in a story it would shape the story to

10. North (in the Northern Hemisphere) South (in the Southern Hemisphere) – In the Northern Hemisphere the element of earth is linked to the north because the farther you travel north the longer the periods of darkness become. It is also true that the farther you travel north the colder the climates become. Therefore, traditionally the north has been associated the element of earth. These associations are reversed if you live in the Southern Hemisphere since traveling south will produce greater periods of darkness and

So yeah, location matters. A lot. Here's what we think: everyone has to find a place where he or she belongs. There's no sense in trying to be something that you aren't by living somewhere you shouldn't. The easy example is Antoine: he belongs in

One can encounter every environmental extreme imaginable, from the intensely vertical terrain of the Andes, soaring up to altitudes of 5,000 meters (16,404 ft.) above sea level, to dry, low-lying lands along the western coast of South America. The climate zones are equally diverse, with some areas that are constantly hot and humid to others with subfreezing temperatures year round. Also within its boundaries are some of the driest places on earth- Chile’s Atacama Desert- to some of the most lush- the Amazonian rain forest to the east of the Andes- with rainy season lasting 11 months of the year. (Suarez and George 3)

S- together the angles make a coordinate that can pinpoint any geographic position on the surface of the Earth, or any other

More than half of the world’s tropical rainforests can be found in Central and South America, however they are also present in south eastern Asia and Africa. All of the world’s tropical rainforests can be found at the approximate location of -20 degrees latitude, also known as the area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. These types of areas exist because of the specific climate, soil types, and diversity present in these regions. This specific area falls in the equatorial and tropical zone and are therefore their climates are controlled by the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) and it’s low pressure centers around the equator. Winds present are moist equatorial (mE) and moist tropical

Equator - imaginary line at 0° latitude that divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres

Describe how Earth has an imaginary line known as the axis which divides Earth into the North and South poles.

Geography influences culture in many ways. A civilizations geography determines what kind of god(s) they believe in as well as influences from other cultures. These features provide a stepping stone for cultures that are solely based on geography.

Maybe some people will think human geography has no relation between physical geography. But I think human geography has a great effect on physical geography, and physical geography has a great effect on human geography too.