How has the geography of the West shaped who we are?

How The Geography Of The West Has Shaped Us Economically

By Jackson

Table of Contents

Page___2 Table of contents
Page___3-5 Themes of geography
Page___6-7 Answer to driving question
Page___8-9 Last Spike
Page___10-11 Golden Skybridge
Page___12-13 Cave and Basin
Page___14-15 Lake Minnawanka
Page___16-17 Sundre
Page___18-19 The Badlands
Page___20-21 Buffalo Jump
Page___22-23 Mountain Coaster
Page___24-26 Videos
Page___27-29 More photos
Page___30 About the author

Five Themes of Geography

Human-Environment Interaction

Human-environment interaction is how humans and the environment interact. There are three ways that we can classify these interactions, the first one being how we adapt to it. An example of this would be us making a fire to adapt to the heat. Then There’s how we modify it. An example of this is building tunnels for a train through mountains. The final thing is that we depend on it. An example of this is us depending on it to grow food.

Place

Place can be defined in two ways, as physical characteristics or cultural characteristics. Physical refers to the natural features like the landforms, Flora and Fauna, climate, and resources. Cultural is the way people live somewhere. This includes every day life, land use, and political ideologies.

Regions

There are three types of regions. Formal, these are regions defined by the government like cities. Functional, regions that are defined by their function. And vernacular, this is a weird one because it’s a region that is made up. It is based off the people’s perception.

Movement

Location

Movement is how things get from place to place. There are three different types of movement, the first one being human movement. This would be by something like train or car. Then there’s movement of products. This could be moved by something like train or boat. Finally, there was the movement of ideas. This could be by something like trains or sending letters.

Location is about where we are, with two different types of location. The first type is absolute. This is given in degrees of latitude and longitude or as things like street signs. Then there is relative. This is described by landmarks, time, direction, and distance.

The Geography of the West has shaped us by allowing us to have a thriving economy with multiple industries that have helped us settle and develop.