Objective: Students will examine human impact on their environment Essential Question: Is it progress when humans change their environment Lang Obj: Students will record key vocabulary and discuss in small groups CULTURAL ECOLOGY

QUIZ REVIEW REREAD NOTES FROM WEDNESDAY, HIGH LIGHT OR STAR MAIN IDEAS AND SUMMARIZE

 What is location?  Why is situation important?  Explain Region. QUIZ

 A body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition  Origin of word culture  To care about (ideas, beliefs, values, and customs)  To take care of (earning $, obtaining food, clothing, and shelter) More developed Countries MDC vs Less developed Countries LDC CULTURE REFRESHER

 Different cultural groups modify the natural environment in distinctive ways to produce unique regions  Can you think of an example?  Idea of Possibilism- theory that physical environment may set limits on human actions but people have the ability to adjust and adapt to survive  Crops: wheat- dry vs rice-wet CULTURAL ECOLOGY

 Some impacts are casual as others are deep seated cultural values 1.Why do we plant our front yards with grass? A.Why bother to mow it to keep if from growing tall? B.Why fine those who don’t mow? C.Why not let dandelions grow or pour concrete? 2.Why do some groups consume fruit from trees as others use it for building material? 3.Why would a rich farmer not like to have property that has a hill? A.Why would this not bother a poor farmer? 4.How has technology altered where people can live? ELBOW BUDDY HUMAN IMPACT QUESTIONS

 Human actions can deplete scarce environmental resources, destroy irreplaceable resources, and use resources inefficiently  Can you think of an example?  Refrigerators and air conditioners increase comfort but also increase C02 output contributing to global warming  Destruction of soil  Soil depletion: when nutrients are removed from soil and reduce the productivity  Soil erosion- when soil washes away in rain or blows from wind  Can you think of solutions? EB NEGATIVE IMPACT OF HUMAN CHANGES

 Half of the Netherlands lies below sea level  Huge human environmental interactions  Polders- a piece of land that is created by draining water from an area  13 th cent idea constructed 16 th  NTL has 2,600 sq miles of polders = 16% of country  Used for Agriculture at first now housing and business  Dikes- massive wall used to hold back water,  Zuider Zee project actually blocked off the sea to turn harbor into lake  Also dammed the delta to prevent flooding and block North Sea NETHERLANDS CULTURAL INFLUENCE

ZUIDER ZEE DIKE

 Due to inhabitants the sandbars are being eroded  The Everglades have been polluted due to damming and farming  2000 Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan Reading  Read the two articles and create a Fact out line about the problem and the solutions that were taken. SOUTH FLORIDA MISTAKES

Each Symbol should be accompanied with a comment in the margin: must explain why important 1. Number the paragraphs 2. Circle unknown words + use context clues to infer meaning 3. Box Key Vocabulary 4. Highlight or *star* interesting facts or concrete details 5. ? : Mark points of confusion about the reading  State why/what part you don’t understand 6. Underline main idea/point for each paragraph 7. Good readers make connections and write in margins/relate reading to own life  Text to self, text to other text, text to world (media, music, etc.) INTERACT-WITH-THE-TEXT MENU:

 Find an article of your own that shows human- environmental interactions.  Read, interact, and summarize (eight sent) for full credit INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

 Two concepts explain why every point on earth is unique  Place and Region  The difference is a matter of scale  Place is a point  Region is an area BUILDING ON OUR 5 THEMES

 Most people have “their place”  Strong Sense of Place  A feeling for the feature that contribute to a particular spot.  Describing the features of a place or regions an essential building block for Geographers to explain similarities, differences, and changes across the earth.  Review Pull out Maps PLACE HOMEWORK REVIEW

 The position that something occupies on Earth’s surface  Four ways to identify location LOCATION

 Toponym the name given to a place of Earth  Named after famous people, religion, ancient history, hope, disasters  Names can also change from political upheaval (WWII and Communism)  Can you think of an example? PLACE NAMES

 The physical character of a place  Characteristics: climate, water, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, and elevation  Essential for selection settlements (Hill vs River X)  Sites can change New your Manhattan is twice as large today as it was in HOW? SITE

 Location of a place relative to other places  Important bc finding unfamiliar place and understanding its importance  Compare unfamiliar place with a similar location  Directions/landmarks  Importance: many cites have become famous/ rich because of location. Singapore is a Center for trade near Strait of Malacca SITUATION

 Described by the meridians and parallels  Meridians arc north and south  Parallels circles around (equator)  Longitude are meridians (long equal in size) divided east and west at Prime Meridian – 0 longitude passes through Royal Observatory at Greenwich- helps with time Human Made 15 degrees = 1 hour Greenwich Mean Time GMT the master reference for time at all points on Prime M  Latitude are parallels equator 0 North Pole 90N, South Pole 90S. Part science part human behavior based off of sunlight exposure. Equator gets 12 hr sun a day.  Longitude ACT of 1714: John Harrison prize winner MATHEMATICAL LOCATION

 Cultural landscape- combination of cultural features such as language, religion, economic, and agriculture, physical features and climate  Add to the senses of belonging So Cal, FOCO, Lodo  A region gains uniqueness from possessing not a single human or environmental characteristic but a combination  Geographers seek relationships (cotton growing ex) REGIONS- UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS

Can you identify a known region? ELBOW BUDDY DISCUSSION

 Any area larger than a point and smaller than the whole earth  Formal – an area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics: States Wyoming, growing wheat belt, Democrat states  Functional –An area organized around a node or focal point, Think newspaper or radio station  Vernacular- An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity, Think American South, cotton production, low grad rates, confederacy cultural, climate TYPES OF REGIONS

 A body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition  Origin of word culture  To care about (ideas, beliefs, values, and customs)  To take care of (earning $, obtaining food, clothing, and shelter) More developed Countries MDC vs Less developed Countries LDC CULTURE

 You are going to create a 1 page report on the city of Greeley  You will identify:  Name  Site  Situation  Mathematical location  Region: formal, functional, and vernacular GEOGRAPHY GREELEY REPORT

 Greeley Maps  Current Event Article  Classroom Map WORK TO BE TURNED IN