Human Geography Chapter Summaries

Scale- relationship between a specific place in the world, and the Earth as a whole.

Geology- It is the study of the Earth, which materials compose it, and how they work together, their processes (earthquakes, floods, erosion) and changes that they have gone through (mountains emerging, valleys, etc.). It also studies the organisms that had been on earth (fossils). It is a wide subject that can be subdivided into fields such as minerology, petrology and so on.

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.

1-Conquering poverty and disease must be a global effort. 2-If the nations of the world fail to lend a helping hand when tragedy strikes an individual country, the disastrous repercussions can spread globally. 3-Without outside funds supporting a country's economy during times of economic disaster, that country’s infrastructure might be at risk of a complete collapse. 4-When one country's economy falls, a domino effect can occur. 5-Thus, the global economy suffers when an individual country's economy falls. 6-Similarly, when disease ravages a country, that country's ability to care for its citizens becomes almost impossible. 7-Without emergency medical supplies from other countries and medical assistance from global organizations such

Due to Melbourne’s climate is one of a temperate oceanic climate. During the summers between the months of December and February, temperatures may rise to 40oC, but are averagely ranging between 20oC to 26oC. The coldest temperatures occur during the winter months of June and August which often lie within a range of 10oC to 15oC

1) Because of differing state policies when approaching multiple languages, Belgium only gains antagonism from multiple languages while Switzerland has more unity. Belgium gives autonomy to regions based on the two differing languages they speak, which creates more difference. Switzerland has four national languages, because they are using their diversity as a unifying factor rather than a dividing one.

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

The seven major tectonic plates comprise mostly on continental plates and the Pacific plate. The seven major plates from greatest to least are called: the Pacific Plate stretching 103,300,000 km2, North American Plate being 75,900,000 km2, Eurasian Plate being 67,800,000 km2, African Plate stretching 61,300,000 km2, Antarctic Plate being 60,900,000 km2, Australian Plate being 47,000,000 km2, and the South American Plate being 43,600,000 km2. With different tectonic plates, there are different ways they can move: divergent, convergent, and transform. Divergent plate movement is when both plates moving away from each other, creating a canyon that has magma pushing out from the bottom, forming new ground. Convergent is usually an oceanic plate and a continental plate are moving into one another, causing the oceanic plate to subducts into the mantle. This causes move active volcanos and earthquakes. Even though all of the plates are in the lithosphere, it's only the where Earth is flexible enough to move rather than flow. The lithosphere flexes when loads of weight are placed on it or

The different tectonic plates rest on the mantle, a very hot layer of earth that is directly beneath the crust. There are seven major tectonic plates, their names are The Pacific Plate, The North American Plate, The Eurasian Plate, The African Plate, The Antarctic Plate, The Australian Plate, and The South American Plate. In addition to these major plates there are also many smaller tectonic plates that make up parts of the Earth's crust. When the boundaries between plates shift, this causes earthquakes. There are three types of movements that cause earthquakes. Divergent is when the plates move away from each other, Subduction is when one plate moves underneath another, and Transform is when the plates grind against each other. The lithosphere is another name for earth's crust and mantle, it is made up of all the tectonic

Earth has many tectonic plates which made out the seven continents. even today there are tectonic plates that are shifting. Some say that California is shifting away from the United States. Although, Earth started out with one continent called Pangaea. There are three major types of tectonic plate boundaries. The first one is divergent, divergent is when the plates move apart from one another. The second one is subduction, subduction is when the oceanic plate moves under a continental plate. Subduction mostly causes the most violent earthquakes and volcanic activity. The last major type of boundary is transform, transform is when the plates slide back and forth against one another. Plates that are located in the Lithosphere are North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, India, Antarctica, Australia and the Pacific

Plate tectonics allows the Earth’s crust to continually change and move. There are seven major plates and many smaller plates making up the Earth’s Lithosphere. I remember from an Astronomy course I took in Muggle school that the major plates roughly correlate to the continents of the world. There major plate names are as follows: North American, South American, African, Antarctic, Australian, the Eurasian (which encompasses both continents of Europe and Asia), and Pacific (which encompasses the entire Pacific Ocean and is actually an oceanic plate whereas the other plates are continental plates). There are three types of boundaries where the different plates meet. The first one is called transform and this is where plates slide past each other. The second one is called divergent and is where plates move away from each other. And the third type of boundary is subduction where an oceanic plate moves under a continental plate. With a subduction boundary the plates continually “bump” into each other causing violent volcanoes and

With the evidence of plate tectonics and fossils, it is believed that about 225 million years ago, all the major continents had formed one giant continent known as Pangaea. However, due to possible heat build up underneath the giant continent, Pangaea broke up thus splitting up populations of plants and animals. With the rift, ocean waters filled the areas that once were the giant continent, therefore separating these continents. To this day, landmasses continue to move apart, riding upon their respective plates. The movement of earth’s twelve major tectonic plates helped determine the position and shape of the continents for millions of years. Where the plates meet, and its motions determine the type of boundary. There are four types of boundaries where activity of plate tectonics can be found: divergent, convergent, collisional, and transform boundaries.

In today’s world people, places, societies and environments are constantly changing. Both natural and human created events, shape the world and create strong relationships between the environment and society. Human geography and development studies are two fields seeking to analyse these interrelationships and answer key questions about major issues in the world such as poverty, inequality and conflict. Human geography is largely about studying the spatial aspects of relationships between people and society whereas development studies focusses more on the way societies function, focussing on issues such as poverty and inequality as well as the way in which ‘developing’ nations function compared to ‘developed’ nations. Through examples of poverty and inequality this essay will explain the ways in which development studies and human geography overlap and the ways in which they are different in their analyses.

Plate tectonics is the theory that the Earth’s crust is divided into large and small plates that move slowly over time. The Earth’s lithosphere is made up eight major plates which include the Africa Plate, Antarctic Plate, Indo-Australian Plate, Australian Plate, Eurasian Plate, North American Plate, South American Plate, and the Pacific Plate. Earth also has dozens of smaller, minor plates (Plate Boundaries). Scientists used this theory to explain what is happening on Earth’s surface. The movement of plate tectonics creates many plate boundaries that have formed landscape features we see on Earth today such as volcanoes and mountains among many other features. The theory of plate tectonics helped geologists to apprehend how the continents are in the position that they are today as well as how landscape features are created.

Look out the window and admire the beauty the Earth prevails, now imagine what the Earth will look like in five to ten years when the human race has destroyed it. The relationship between Earth and humans is similar to a drug addict looking for a quick fix. Humans use nonrenewable resources that are destroying our planet in search for something better. Through the mass production of plastic bags, motor oil and automobiles the planet is being destroyed due to the deterioration of wildlife, contamination of fresh water and pollution of air.