Geography’s Fundamental Ideas

Please write this title on both sheets of lined paper.

1. We live on land of unequal size and quality.

2. We change the Earth every day.Please write as many examples of people changing the earth as you can think of—on second lined paper.

Aral Sea

Grinnell Glacier, Glacier National Park, Montana

Summer 1938-2005

Muir Glacier Bay, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska

1941/2004

3.You learn about life and how to behave (survive) on the Earth at your group’s cultural hearth.

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What is the learning hearth for the following life lessons? Write

answer in your notes.

What is their problem? Write your answer in your notes.

Watch the following clip. Be ready to discuss!

• In what ways does your environment limit your life choices?– write 3 ways in your examples

4.Your environment limits your life choices.

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5. You move to areas that meet your life goals.

• Where do you want to live? How does that place meet your life goals?

6. When you travel on Earth you trade ideas and behaviors with people at new cultural hearths.

This is “cultural diffusion”.

Let’s Review the Fundamental Ideas of Geography!

1. People (We) live on land of unequal size and quality.

2. People (We)change the Earth every day.

3. You learn about life and how to behave (survive) on the Earth at your group’s cultural hearth.

4. Your environment limits your life choices.

5. You move to areas that meet your life goals.

6. When you travel on Earth you trade ideas and behaviors with people at new cultural hearths. This is “cultural diffusion.”