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Lesson 4: Geography Tools
CHRISTIAN GARZA
Created on August 1, 2023
Key info like Infrastructure, HEI, Barriers, and Corridors
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PRESENTATION
Geography Tools
You will progress through this lesson using this presentation and resources located in Schoology. Make sure you read all directions.
INDEX
Infrastructure
Corridors & Barriers
Human Environment Interaction
Movement and Migration
Patterns of Population
Location Technologies
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INFRASTRUCTURE
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.
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Transportation Barriers
A geographic feature that slows or prevents transportation
Transportation Corridors
A path that makes transportation easierr.
Schoology Assignment
Human Environment Interaction
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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.
Adapting or Modifying
Movement & Migration
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.
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Patterns of Populations
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.
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VERSUS
GIS
GPS
A geographic information system (GIS) is a framework for gathering, managing, and analyzing data. GIS integrates many types of data.
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.
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