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The Diversity of the West Loading...
And the Geography That Shaped usLoading...
By : Blondie
Five Themes of Geography Comic Life - pg. 3
Driving Question - pg. 5
The Last Spike - pg. 6
Golden Skybridge - pg. 8
Cave and Basin - pg. 10
Lake Minnewanka - pg. 12
Sundre Museum and Pioneer Village - pg. 14
The Badlands - pg. 16
Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump World Heritage Site - pg. 18
Mountain Coaster- pg. 20
Photos + Videos - pg. 22
About the Author - pg. 28
Driving Question - pg. 5
The Last Spike - pg. 6
Golden Skybridge - pg. 8
Cave and Basin - pg. 10
Lake Minnewanka - pg. 12
Sundre Museum and Pioneer Village - pg. 14
The Badlands - pg. 16
Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump World Heritage Site - pg. 18
Mountain Coaster- pg. 20
Photos + Videos - pg. 22
About the Author - pg. 28
Table of Contents
The 5 Themes of Geography
Location
Location is where we are, and can be described by either absolute location (shown by lines of latitude and longitude, or a street address) or relative location (shown by distance, time, landmarks, and direction)
Place
Physical characteristics (naturally occurring features in a certain location) like landforms, plants and animals, resources, and climate, and human / cultural characteristics (ways humans live in a certain location) such as land use, political ideas, and daily life (food, religion, language, music, etc.) define what a place is.
Human Environment Interaction
There are a few ways in which humans interact with the environment: we adapt to it, modify, and depend on it. This involves human use and modification of the environment, any sort of building or man - made structure, and food sources.
Movement
Movement is how people, goods, and ideas are moved from one place to another. Some examples of movement are: cars and trains (transporting people and products)and books, the internet (the movement of ideas).
Regions
There are three types of regions. Formal regions which are defined by governmental / administrative boundaries, (countries, cities, and states) functional regions defined by their function (school district, newspaper service area, etc.) and vernacular regions defined by peoples perceptions of the area or similar characteristics (Deep Cove, Chinatown, Corn belt).
Location is where we are, and can be described by either absolute location (shown by lines of latitude and longitude, or a street address) or relative location (shown by distance, time, landmarks, and direction)
Place
Physical characteristics (naturally occurring features in a certain location) like landforms, plants and animals, resources, and climate, and human / cultural characteristics (ways humans live in a certain location) such as land use, political ideas, and daily life (food, religion, language, music, etc.) define what a place is.
Human Environment Interaction
There are a few ways in which humans interact with the environment: we adapt to it, modify, and depend on it. This involves human use and modification of the environment, any sort of building or man - made structure, and food sources.
Movement
Movement is how people, goods, and ideas are moved from one place to another. Some examples of movement are: cars and trains (transporting people and products)and books, the internet (the movement of ideas).
Regions
There are three types of regions. Formal regions which are defined by governmental / administrative boundaries, (countries, cities, and states) functional regions defined by their function (school district, newspaper service area, etc.) and vernacular regions defined by peoples perceptions of the area or similar characteristics (Deep Cove, Chinatown, Corn belt).
My Answer to the Driving Question
The geography of the west brought a diverse cast of settlers, their cultures and the diverse landscape shaped where we settled in the past and where we settled shaped us now.
This also impacted the economy, by the increase of tourism and people living, working and thriving in the West.
This also impacted the economy, by the increase of tourism and people living, working and thriving in the West.
The Last Spike