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CHAPTER 6: Places and People Copyright © 2003 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. hemispheres: Earth consists of oceans, seas, and seven continents. These bodies are located within hemispheres: latitude.Location in the Northern and Southern hemispheres is measured by lines of latitude.

CHAPTER 6: Places and People Copyright © 2003 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. hemispheres: Earth consists of oceans, seas, and seven continents. These bodies are located within hemispheres: longitude.Location in the Eastern and Western hemispheres is measured by lines of longitude.

CHAPTER 6: Places and People Copyright © 2003 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Regions Regions within hemispheres can be described in terms of the following characteristics: Physiographic (natural) Cultural Economic (Continued) Which characteristics are displayed on the map?

CHAPTER 6: Places and People Copyright © 2003 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Human activities have had a significant, and to a large part threatening, impact on the natural world: Energy consumption

CHAPTER 6: Places and People Copyright © 2003 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Human activities have had a significant, and to a large part threatening, impact on the natural world: Food needs and production

CHAPTER 6: Places and People Copyright © 2003 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Human activities have had a significant, and to a large part threatening, impact on the natural world: Population growth and movement

CHAPTER 6: Places and People Copyright © 2003 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Human activities have had a significant, and to a large part threatening, impact on the natural world: Uncontrolled industrialization

CHAPTER 6: Places and People Copyright © 2003 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Spoiled land and water and depletion of the ozone layer are some of the dangerous results of such activities. (Continued)

CHAPTER 6: Places and People Copyright © 2003 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. culture, A physical location helps to determine its inhabitants’ culture, or customs and beliefs. indigenous.A cultural group whose way of life has been a response to the environment in which it has lived is known as indigenous. Some examples are the BaMbuti and the Inuit.

CHAPTER 6: Places and People Copyright © 2003 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. migration, Human history has become a history of migration, or movement from one location to another: Circle migrationCircle migration involves people moving from one location to another and then back to the original location. Example:Example: Some U.S. citizens move to Florida or Arizona for the winter and back up North for the summer. (Continued)

CHAPTER 6: Places and People Copyright © 2003 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. migration, Human history has become a history of migration, or movement from one location to another: Chain migrationChain migration is the permanent movement of a group to a new place as a result of change in the original location. Examples:Examples: Seekers of new economic opportunities, political refugees, the slave trade. (Continued)

CHAPTER 6: Places and People Copyright © 2003 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Cities and civilizations are purely human innovations: The construction of cities led to a more sophisticated level of social life. Civilizations are known for their wide diversity of professions, art, and architecture.

CHAPTER 6: Places and People Copyright © 2003 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. In contrast, humans have also created gruesome and horrifying places, such as concentration camps. (Continued)

Copyright © 2003 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. THE END Chapter Review QuizGED Practice Quiz Practice the skills you learned in this chapter by taking the Chapter Review Quiz or the GED Practice Quiz. CHAPTER 6: Places and People