Post #7 Justin

1. California: Pacific
2. Great Lakes: Midwest
3. Des Moines: Midwest
4. Cotton Belt:
5. Rocky Mountains: Mountain
6. Little Havana: south east
7. Chinatown: north east
8. District of Columbia: mid atlantic
9. The Tropics: south east

What makes North America a region?
It has many locations that have similarities.

What regions can you identify within North America?
The south, North, the Mid West

What regions can you identify within Minnesota?
the metro, the suburbs

post #9

Define the following:

Globalization- easy to connect to people

Telecommunication- the transmission of information

Capital- the city or town that is the official seat of government in a country, or state

Diffusion- spreading out

Non-Governmental Organization- not belonging to or associated with any government.
Multinational Corporation

Answer the following:

What has happened that has increased globalization (4 answers)?

Improved Technology in Transportation and Telecommunications: today people can call on a phone, send am instant message, send a fax, or a video conference call.

Movement of People and Capital: A general increase in awareness
Diffusion of Knowledge: to spread out
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Multinational Corporations: bring together people unaffiliated with the government and can be nationally or globally focused.

What are the possible positive and negative aspects of globalization? It gets there faster, It requires less work, Revolutionates the way we communicate, and it cost nothing. but the message may not get to the right person, takes away jods, (MAILMAN), nobody meets face to face,people spend more time one the computer.

Positive	Negative
the message gets to them faster	the message may not get to the right person
it requries less work	it takes jobs away from mailmen
it revolitionizes the way we comunicate	nobody meets face to face
it cost nothing	people spend more time on the computer

human enviroment interation

Human-Environment Interaction

The environment we live in has a huge influence on our life.
List the influences the following characteristics have on our life in Minnesota.
Think about recreation, hobbies, buildings, jobs, maintenance, clothing, etc.
Be specific and detailed with your answers.

Summer In the summer I don't have school so I just screw around. I ride my bike and play b-ball. I just have fun. (keith)





Winter In winter i like to snowboard and snowmobile but the worst thing is there is school




Fall In fall I play football and school just started so things are just getting started (keith)




Spring i like sping because it means it is close tothe end of the school year




Tornadoes they are scary and I hate them They might kill me!!!! and tear down my house
and hurt my dog (keith)




Forests they are green




Lakes: lakes are where I spend about 400 hours each years and I love them because I can go swimming and walk on beaches and have fun(keith)





Rivers they are blue because the water reflects all the light except the blue shade





Humans have a huge influence on the environment.
List the influence of humans according to the following topics.
Be specific and detailed with your answers.

Driving I've sat in a car for so many hours that I don't want to count. and I can't wait to to start driving (keith)





Computers the help me comunicate with my friends





Appliances: fridge it has food in it





Bottled Water: bottled water is great. But not when you don't recycle them. It works good for trips so people don't stop to get a drink out of a drinking foutain. And it's easy to get so people don't a hard time finding it. (keith)





Newspapers Newspapers are a helpful tool in everyday life that inform people about thing going on in the world. so they are very useful.


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states

Keith's...
1. alaska
- alaska boarders canada
- it is the biggest state in the us
- boarders pacific ocean
- part of the state is in the artic circle
- the capital is junao
- one of two states not boarding another state
- 300 Aleution islands
- to many glacers
2. Hawaii
- a giant volcano
- the most southern state in the us
- boarders no other state
- the state is composed up of islands
- mauna kea is the tallest point on all of the islands
- the capitol is honolula
- only nonstop flow of lava in the world
- second most western state
- not a strait line on the boarder
- the state is growing because of the lava
3. Texas
- austin is the capital
- It is the largest state in the lower 48 states
- boarders gulf of mexico
- boarders mexico
- only one natural lake in the state
4. california
- the capital is sacrimento
- the highest point is mount whinety
- boarders pacific ocean
- it is the third largest state
- boarders mexico
5. Rhode island
- smallest state in the us
- capital is providence
- boarders atlantic ocean
- it has 30 islands
- it only has 1,545 square miles
- it's nick name is little rody

Justin
1. Minnesota
- Minnesotan baseball commentator Halsey Hal was the first to say 'Holy Cow' during a baseball broadcast.
-The Mall of America in Bloomington is the size of 78 football fields --- 9.5 million square feet.
-Minnesota Inventions: Masking and Scotch tape, Wheaties cereal, Bisquick, HMOs, the bundt pan, Aveda beauty products, and Green Giant vegetables
-The St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959 allowing oceangoing ships to reach Duluth.
2.Wyoming
-The largest coal mine in the USA is Black Thunder located near Wright
-Wyoming leads the country in coal production in 1994 with 3 million tons per week
-The JCPenney stores were started in Kemmerer.
3. Michigan
-Detroit is known as the car capital of the world.
-Alpena is the home of the world's largest cement plant.
-Rogers City boasts the world's largest limestone quarry.
-The state Capitol with its majestic dome was built in Lansing in l879.
4. Arizona
-Arizona is home of the Grand Canyon National Park.
-The battleship USS Arizona was named in honor of the state.
-In 1926, the Southern Pacific Railroad connected Arizona with the eastern states.
-The geographic center of Arizona is 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Prescott.
5. Nevada
-In 1899 Charles Fey invented a slot machine named the Liberty Bell. The device became the model for all slots to follow.
-The Reno Ice Pavilion is a 16,000-square-foot rink once dismantled and moved to Reno from Atlantic City, New Jersey.
-Bugsy Siegel named his Las Vegas casino "The Flamingo" for the long legs of his showgirl sweetheart, Virginia Hill.
-The Imperial Palace on the Las Vegas strip is the nation's first off-airport airline baggage check-in service.

Outline of the Five Themes of Geography

I. Location:

A. Absolute location:

1. way to find it is to use Lat. and Long.
2. abs. location is a place's position on the globe.
3. geographers also use the equator & prime meridian for abs. location.

B. Relative location
1. is the place's relation compaired to the other
2. places can have many relative locations
3. those places can change over time.

II. place

A. Physical charicteristics

1. all places have unique physical charictoristics
2. they have their own landforms

B. human charictoristics

1. population
2. the language they speak

III. Regions

A. formal

1. a group of places that have somthing in common
2. it is also determined by perseption

B. functional

1. it has a central place
2. plus surrounding places effected by it

c. perceptual

1. what people think of it
2. there are places like the upper midwest that have no exact boarder

IV. Movement

A. places do not exsist in isolation
b. people fallow their movement for better life

V. human-environment interaction

A. how people use their environment

B. also how they respond to their environment