Geography

The impact of war can be both detrimental and restorative to not only people, but the environment as well. Aside from culture growing and nations expanding, the outcome of a war can also influence and be influenced by geography. The history of all warfare can give us the facts, but geography can open up new windows of opportunities for learning about what society does not already know. War and geography go hand in hand including political, physical, economic, and human subgroups. The result of war led to attaining new resources, obtaining land, and acquiring revenge. These positive earnings of the war could not have been successful without the assistance of geography. The physical structures of geography either helped or burdened the…

Emily Waldo Bezy Geo. Honors 15 August 2017 “Geography & It’s 5 Themes”  Geography is the study of the Earth, specifically the land and its features. The subject can be divided into two categories: Physical Geography and Cartography. Physical Geography entails actual points that can be located using latitude and longitude as well as landforms, such as mountains, rivers, lakes, oceans, plateaus, etc. Cartography is the study and / or practice of drawing maps. In Cartography; one must…

After watching National Geographic: Cultural Differences, TEDx, “Pellegrino Riccardi: Cross cultural communuication” and reading about cultural and behavioral geography in the reading for this week, I have come to notice how many factors have truly influenced my mental map. In the reading “Intro to geography” by Dahlman Renwick the definition of behavioral geography is “how our perception influences our behavior” and the images one imagines when thinking of these perceptions is our mental map. I…

Kaylee Kiewit What is Geography? Why do we study it? Mrs. Bezy/ English 9 Honors/ Period 5 8/11/17 Geography is “the study of the physical features of the Earth and its atmosphere” as well as the activity of humans since we greatly impact the Earth around us. Themes of geography include location, place, region, movement, and human/environment interaction. We study geography so that we can better learn about the world we live in. The first theme of geography that I’m going to talk about is…

has to do with geography.” I believe that she is correct, because geography covers basically anything that has to do with the Earth. For example, it covers population, maps, geographical grids, human activity, spatial patterns, and so many other things. Geography classifies material spatially, always asking the questions “where” and “why”. Geographers employ several different, fundamental concepts to explain why every place is unique and somehow connected to other locations. Numerous geographers…

1. McDonalds uses human geography to plan out where to build a restaurant by using culture and economy. In certain places McDonalds will alter their food to fit a certain type of flavor. Sometimes the store may not expand in areas that can’t afford the food. 2. Maps display information about the surface and the areas of the world that we live in. Geography is very dependent on the use of maps. They are also used as communication, and storing reference material. It can help us to find…

Part II - Read chapters 1 and 2 in "Teaching Geography" by Gershmehl. Answer the following questions: 1. What does Gershmehl mean by the 'geographic perspective'? He means “why things are located where they are”, “what are the advantages foor things being in appropriate places”, “are there penalties for things being in less suitable places” and “analysis of the locations of things can provide useful insights about causes and other relationships”. It can provide insight into spatial-thinking…

decide where to produce things in response to characteristics of the local labor force, such as level of skill, prevailing wage rates, and attitudes toward unions. 24___The term glocal reflects the idea that global scale processes are acted out at the local scale. It affects me because any changes that happen at the global scale always starts at the local scale, which means that I will be faced with the changes that happen at the global level. 25___Glocalization can influence chains like…

Kyndra Bolden What is Geography, and why do we Study it? Mrs. Bezy, Geography Honors, 8th pr. 8-13-17 When I think of the word geography, images of land comes to my mind. I understand that geography is land, but there is also much more to it than that. Geography is the mix of natural and social sciences. Geography also is apart of our everyday lives. There are two different types of location that we use. Absolute location tells us what it is in the…

Said claims the boundaries are “arbitrarily drawn” by delineating his abstract notion of imaginative geography which originated from nature of humanity. In concerning this imaginary space “some distinctive objects are made by the mind, and that these objects, while appearing to exist objectively, have only a fictional reality,” in exemplification “[a] group of people living on a few acres of land will set up boundaries between their land and its immediate surroundings and territory beyond,…