Enduring Understanding Themes
Human-Environmental
Interaction & Movement
August 12-17, 2011
First Five
Agenda Message:
Five (5) E.Q.’s for the week are due today.
No homework. Enjoy your weekend.
E.Q. for Friday; August 12th
Name two things you learned this week regarding
Locations & Maps.
Warm-Up
Review five (5) vocabulary words with your Study Buddy.
First Five
Agenda Message:
Pop-Quiz tomorrow on Map coordinates (latitude and
longitude).
E. Q. for Monday; August 15th
What does human-environmental interaction
mean?
Warm-Up
Name three ways that you can think of where humans have
changed the natural environment in and around Atlanta.
Human-Environment Interaction
E. Q. Answer
The ways in which people use, change, or live with their
environment.
Positive changes - makes the environment safer or more
livable;
Negative changes – pollutes the environment and
destroys it’s natural beauty.
Place and Region
Place
Place includes the physical features and cultural
characteristics of a location. It answers the question
“What is it like?”
All places on earth have physical features that set them
apart, such as climate, landforms, and vegetation.
Think About This!
How would you describe what the Atlanta area is like?
Place and Region
Place cont.
Other features are the product of human interacting with
the environment, such as by building dams, highways, or
houses.
Region
A region is an area of the earth’s surface with similar
characteristics. It answers the question “How are places
similar or different?”
Human-Environment Interaction
The question “How do people relate to the physical
world?” refers to the relationship between humans and
their environment.
People learn to use what the environment offers them and
to change that environment to meet their needs.
They also learn to live with aspects of the environment that
they cannot control, such as climate.
Human-Environment Interaction
People living in similar environments do not respond to
them in the same way.
(For example some view a hot sunny climate near a body
of water as ideal for recreational activities. Others may
see it as an opportunity for raising citrus fruits, olives,
or grapes.)
Human-Environment Interaction
Human beings work to alter their environments to make
places better or to provide needed goods.
People may drain swamps or dig irrigation ditches to grow
crops in a particular environment.
Sometimes the alterations create new problems, such as
pollution.
Human-Environment Interaction
As you study geography, you will learn about many ways
humans interact with their environment.
Summary
1. Human-Environmental Interaction is the ways in which
people use, change, or live with their environment.
2. These interactions can be positive - making places
safer or more livable or they can be negative –
polluting, and destroying natural beauty.
Human-Environment Interaction
Vocabulary Words
Place
Region
Human-Environmental Interaction
First Five
Agenda Message:
Vocabulary Quiz II is Friday, August 19th. Improve your quiz
grade and Mr. Smith will give you the highest score for quiz 1 &
2.
E. Q. for Tuesday; August 16th
What does the geographic term “movement” refer to and how do
geographers analyze it?
Warm-Up
List some examples of positive and negative effects of people
altering their environments?
First Five
Agenda Message for 8/17/11:
Vocabulary Quiz II is Friday, August 19th. There are 21
vocabulary words, 18 from last week and 3 for this week.
E. Q. for Wednesday; August 17th
How does Location, Human Environmental Interaction,
and Movement interact?
Warm-Up
Name two products you have that came from another part
of the world.
Movement
E. Q. Answer for Tuesday, August 16th
Movement describes how people, ideas, and products
move from one location to another.
They are measured by geographers by looking at three
types of distances: linear, time, and psychological
distances.
Movement
E. Q. Answer for August 17th
Where people live is effected by their location, in turn
people interact with the environment for their needs,
finally ideas, goods, and people move from one location to
another.
Movement
The question “How do people, goods and ideas move from
one location to another?” Refers to movement.
Think about the clothing you wear, the music you listen to,
or the place you go to for entertainment.
All of these things involve movement from one place to
another.
Movement
Geographers analyze movement by looking at
three types of distance:
1. Linear distance
2. Time distance, and
3. Psychological distance
Movement
Linear Distance & Time Distance
Linear distance simply means how far across the earth a
person, an idea, or a product travels.
Physical geography can affect linear distance by forcing a
shift in a route to avoid impassable land or water.
Movement
Time distance is the amount of time it takes for a
person, an idea, or a product to travel. Modern
inventions have shortened time distances. Can you
think of some examples?
Movement
Psychological Distance
Psychological Distance refers to the way people view
distance.
(For instance, when you were younger, some locations
seemed very far away. As you have grown older, the
distance to these locations probably seemed to shrink.)
Movement
Summary
1. Movement describes how people, ideas, and products
move from one location to another.
2. They are measured by geographers by looking at three
types of distances: linear, time, and psychological
distances.
Vocabulary Words
Movement
Linear distance
Time distance
Psychological distance
Movement
Agenda Message:
Vocabulary Quiz II is tomorrow, Friday. Social Studies
Pre-Test is Monday, August 22nd.
E. Q. for Thursday; August 18, 2011:
Refer to a map of the Middle East. Describe it’s Relative
Location.
Warm-Up:
Name the first three Enduring Understandings for 7th
grade Social Science. (refer to wall posters)
Movement
E. Q. Answer for Thursday; August 18th
The relative location for the Middle East
1.
2.
3.
4.
East of the Red Sea
The eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea
Northwest of the Arabian Sea
Surrounds the Persian Gulf