Lesson 4: Geography Tools

PRESENTATION

You will progress through this lesson using this presentation and resources located in Schoology. Make sure you read all directions.

Geography Tools

Location Technologies

Patterns of Population

Movement and Migration

Human Environment Interaction

Corridors & Barriers

Infrastructure

INDEX

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INFRASTRUCTURE

Infrastructure is the way a city or community is organized by the government. The term is used most often in an urban planning context to suggest the items that need to be built to support a city or area.

Infrastructure

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A path that makes transportation easierr.

Transportation Corridors

A geographic feature that slows or prevents transportation

Transportation Barriers

Adapting or Modifying

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People and the environment interact and affect each other. This is known as human environment interaction (HEI): the way humans depend on, adapt to and modify the environment. Adapt means to adjust or make suitable while modify means to physically change.

Human Environment Interaction

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Movement or migration is the way people, products, information and ideas move from one place to another. People migrate for different reasons. These are called push and pull factors.

Movement & Migration

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Population growth rates vary among Earth’s regions. The population distribution, or the geographic pattern of where people live on Earth, is uneven as well. Human populations grow at different rates in different areas of the world for a variety of reasons.

Patterns of Populations

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VERSUS

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The Global Positioning System (GPS), is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force.

GPS

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A geographic information system (GIS) is a framework for gathering, managing, and analyzing data. GIS integrates many types of data.

GIS

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Complete pages 6 - 10 of your digital ISN. Once complete, request your Mastery Check 2.

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