APHG Day 5

APHG Day 5

Recap

• 5 Themes

• Why of Where

5 Themes

• Location: Absolute and Relative

• Place: Distinguishing characteristics

• Region: Formal, Functional, Vernacular/Perceptual

• Movement: Migration and Diffusion

• Human-Environment Interaction

Human-Environment Interaction

• Humans either changing the environment to suit their needs or adapting to their environment in order to survive.

• Most of human settlement is in the ecumene, or habitable part of Earth's surface. (5 "too's")

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Ecumene

• Habitable part of Earth's surface

• Generally, people don't live where it is: too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, or too extreme.

Changing in order to survive

• Agriculture

• Terraced Farming

• Dikes and Levees

Conclusion

• People change the Earth to suit their needs or adapt to it in order to survive.

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