Humanity-Geography Reflection

What is geography?
Geography is the physical features of the surface of the earth.

Theme 1: Location

Where are you right now? Describe your location in as many ways as you can.
I am at my school in the math classroom. There is a hallway and lots of rooms branching from it. At the end of the hall is a small platform with cushions on it. At the left of the platform there are two stairs one leading to the second floor and one leading to the fourth floor. But if you keep on going straight you will end up in the elementary side.


Theme 2: Place

What do we mean by the terms “physical, human and cultural” when we describe a place?
Every place have characteristics just like humans. So we refer that as human characteristics. The physical characteristic is what the land or physical form of the place is like. Then the cultural characteristic is what the culture of a place is like.

Theme 3: Human-Environment Interactions
How do humans adapt to and/or change the environment?
How do we depend upon the environment?

We adapt in the changes of environment in lots of ways. If the weather changes cold, people who are going out will change in warmer cloth, and when it is hot people wear less (short sleeves, ect.). But we depend on the environments animals, plants, soil, water, and a lot more. We need soil to grow plants and water so the plants don't dry out. We also need the animals so we can eat meat.

Theme 4: Movement
How does movement affect your daily life?
What “items” are being moved that you interact with on a regular basis?

We move with every movement we make. Cars and other transportation are all things move around us. We can make anything around us move when we want to. Movement affects our life because if there was no movement everything would stop.

Theme 5: Regions
Describe the difference between a formal, functional and perceptual description of a region.

Former religion- People who were moved or converted from one religion to another.

Functional - Is anything to do with society. An example is describing religion as something which binds together a community or which alleviates a person’s fear of mortality.

Perceptual-An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.

Sources
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Geography/place.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/06/g68/symbols.html
http://atheism.about.com/od/religiondefinition/a/types.htm
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_definition_of_perceptual_region