How our geography shaped our economy

I think this is highly important as is is what brought B.C. to Canada and allowed for Canada&apos;s economy to expand. It also shows the completion of a major task that included building through Rogers Pass a place full of snow-slides danger due to the amount of them in the winter that took out the tracks, buried the tracks in snow and eventually required a tunnel to be built along with sheds that cover the tracks protecting the trains from the slides. While also showing Canada&apos;s unity as we have a way to cross the country in minutes. This also was the first stop of the trip

The last spike is a very important moment in Canadian history, it represented the completion of the railway uniting Canada from coast to coast. It is a major representation of Movement in the 5 themes of geography. The train that goes from coast to coast not only represents the movement of goods but also the movement of people and ideas.

This highly represents the political history of Canada as the preposition of the railway is what brought B.C. to join Canada instead of Oregon. This railway allowed people to travel through some of the most treacherous terrain in Canada and for coal mined in the rockies to be transported across Canada allowing for a significant boost in economy. 

Golden Skybridge This is me after zip lining at golden sky bridge. Relative location: near golden back from crossing the suspension bridge and getting off the zip line&apos;s catching mechanism. This place has 2 suspension bridges, and a very fun zipline and a great ropes course. It is a region used for more extreme activities near a deep valley. It has 2 highly sturdy suspension bridges made by modifying the valley by anchoring into the sides to make them stable. The ropes course also does this by anchoring in to the ground and trees for support so the ropes course&apos;s zip-lines, obstacles and platforms can safely by suspended in the treetops. The zip lines where a great way to cross back taking less than a minute due to the speed of the rig crossing the valley it was suspended over and using gravity and a low amount of friction you could cross the area. This area is important to the west because it is used to bring people out to this part of B.C. with the different attractions in the region that where really fun at this place. It also is the perfect representation of a good attraction that can bring in a large amount of people daily that want this kind of activity. Along with the attraction of riding a long zip-line that can quickly bring up adrenaline levels. This is a photo of me after the zip-line smiling as I had a lot of adrenaline in me after becoming speed itself. Then we went on the ropes course that I completed with ease except for missing the catch on the first zip-line on the level 2 course and the recking ball after that. But it still was a great experience. I also was the first student in our trip to complete both courses along with the zip-line course that I would ride again if I could, it got to ride that one 2 times being the first student and the last person to ride it and complete it. It was pretty fast paced and had a good amount of zip-lines. I also was a bit sad that the mountain coaster was not ready as it looked fun sadly. But even though this happened the thrill was good and enjoyable so it rapped up our trip nicely.

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Heritage Site This is Head Smashed in buffalo jump one of the most historic places on earth. It was used to kill large amounts of buffalo to last for the winter and was one of many. It is so historic because is was a place that was used many times through history and was one of the most popular buffalo jumps. When these where used it would take many days and thousands of people to complete this and would feed many tribes. It represents place because many knew of its existence and was a place of peace where no wars where fought and everyone was equal and had what they needed. This is so important to the west because it is a UNESCO world heritage site that was used over history and was one of the last buffalo jumps to be used before the attempted mass extinction by colonists to get the first people to sign treaties so they could have enough food. The buffalo once numbered the millions but where hunted for sport and for the furs to near extinction if not for the work of conservationists who have been slowly bringing back the population. This connects to me because I got the pleasure to visit it and learn about it. It told me things I did not now about what happened in Alberta to the fist nations of the plains as I only had studied about what happened in B.C. to some extent. I also got to see why it was so important as it was so close to the river that this was possible as they needed the water in the harvesting of the dead buffalo a process that took weeks as they cured the meat and used the entirety of the buffalo, causing them to be entirely reliant on the buffalo for food, shelter, clothing, and tools. They hunted them with their knowledge and no guns or horses, just their raw skill and preparation to herd an amazing animal off a cliff a practice that took centuries of development to create into one of the most highly efficient ways to hunt a herd of buffalo with out modern tools.

Calgary Zoo The Calgary Zoo is a huge representation of human environment interaction, as people had to move the animals away from there habitat and then recreate its environment so that the animal was comfortable and was in conditions that it can survive in. This has many uses like bringing in people to see a baby animal or to sell to other zoos to make more money that can boost the economy. It also gets tourists to pay to go to the zoo generating cash. This photo of a camel shows that even animals from other continents and completely different regions can be moved to another place decently and safely. Now days we interact with these animals better than we used to and now take care of animals that are in zoos more carefully so they don&apos;t die and are comfortable so we don&apos;t have to spend money that could be used for other economy boosting things on new animals or repairs. This photo represents one of the regions in Africa I have not yet seen the desert a commonly dry region, the camel is highly adapted to it and can store large amounts of water so it can survive the dry climates. Humans most likely went in and brought him across the world so he can be on display, even though they usually try to build a habitat similar to what there used too, so his enclosure is quite bare so I used this close up.

This Comic life shows the 5 themes of geography but for more context an explanation below

Place; this is a photo of the buffalo jump, it is 10 meters tall and made of sedimentary rock, at one point in time thousands of years ago it stood 20 meters tall but over time shrank after use to kill buffalo and was last used about 120 years ago during the mass killing of the buffalo.

Movement; The photo representing movement is of a train going over the CPR&apos;s last spike that nailed in a way to cross the country, a railroad built through some of Canada&apos;s most dangerous terrain.  

Location; this photo&apos;s relative location is near the lake at the end of the larch valley trail.

Region; this drawing is of the plains in Alberta on the left and B.C.&apos;s Cordillera region n the right 

Human environment interaction; This is a photo of me by moraine lake on the rock pile that has been modified to have a path up to it for better access to the view behind me 

Geography is represented in 5 different themes; location, region, movement, place and human environment interaction. Location; location shows a lot, their is relative and exact location one being the general area and the other would be the exact point. For example a relative location of a camel is the Calgary zoo while the exact location would be the coordinates of that camel. Then we have the regions like political, functional and vernacular. Political regions are places defines by the government like Alberta and B.C., functional regions are defined by its function like a mountain for its skiing and snowboarding and vernacular regions places named by the people. Another theme is movement a very useful one, like cars, and trains, thing that not only move people and goods but also moves ideas and cultures. Things like the CPR a train built across Canada that made the deal that brought B.C. To join confederation are very good representations of this as it was and still is a symbol of the countries unification from coast to coast. Then we have place; a representation to the area and what is in it. For example a forest contains trees that allow us to have a good logging industry that can make large amounts of wood products that can make money. Finally we have human environment interaction; things like how we modify the terrain to build things and make things accessible for us, or how we make tunnels to fit trains that move not only goods but people and ideas that can help society as a who that can help us make a profit to keep us going.

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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.

Hi I&apos;m Keenan I am a video game nerd A proud geek A gaming news cast And A bookworm I like math and homework along with streaming on twitch And playing with my dog

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Glacier Skywalk and Columbia Icefield The Columbia icefield is a very unique part of the 5 themes of Geography. It is one of the most important aspects of the rockies as it feeds some of the last glaciers in the ice field. It works by building up snow and fusing it more and more to create highly compact glacier ice. I got to stand on the Athabasca glacier and consume glacier water (it tastes good). Its is a good representation of location as it&apos;s relative location as it is beside the Columbia ice field one of the biggest ice fields. It is feeding the receding glaciers, so much so that the lake below the Athabasca glacier is now big enough to be called a lake due to so muck recession of the glacier that is shrinking at rapid rates. This place is highly important as it is one of the last surviving glaciers and feeds many rivers that go all around North America. It over time has been consistently putting out a large amount of ice in the glacier and will help keep the glacier surviving a bit longer even though the glaciers will most likely die out if climate change is not stopped. It is highly important as it helps bring change and reminds people about what is happening and the effects of it. This photo is contains the Glacier on the left that at one point was considerably larger. It is shrinking at a rate that the ice field can not keep up with as the glacier is shrinking 35 meters a year and the icefield can only push out ice at a rate of 15 meters a year a thing that will bring the glacier to its demise in the near future a large risk. It represents some of the most powerful things the region that this location has to offer. It is a place with some of the most insane geography, and some of the most unique things. It is a region of high risk as well so we have to use snow crawlers a modified 6 wheeler used to safely climb the glacier in the top left of the photo. It also shows that because of how we have interacted with the environment that the alpine regions can be severely affected and damaged along with the effects on the place.

Frank Slide The Frank slide is one of the most geographically active regions as the mountain, turtle mountain is right on a fault line between the earths plates, the region and rock of this place is naturally unstable as over time due to the moving tectonic plates the frank slide is in a formation of rock that is highly unstable as the mountain is made of folded beds in a type of collision that make the oceanic plate go under the continental plate, this and the fact that their is a river under it eroding the sediment and the coal mining along with the mountains instability due to cracks formed by the tectonic plates that where widening quickly due to large amounts of rain making the cracks expand caused the mountain to cause a rockslide killing many, this alone can bring in people interested about the place can generate reveneau. This led to the second worst natural disaster in Canadian history. This place shows that the fact that we needed coal so much that we where willing to risk it as after the slide they just set the mine back up. It also shows how dangerous Canada&apos;s geography is as now that mountain is monitored 24-7. It goes to show how reliant we are on our land but how ignorant we are as their was tremors happening all the time leading up towards the earthquake. This photo is of the mountain after the slide that took the mountains peak with it. I think this shows that we need to pay more attention to our regions as they can be quite unbalanced and dangerous if we are not careful as it can take lives. This also shows how quick we are at bouncing back to keep on going as they rebuilt the railway going through this area in less than 2 weeks and just kept going even with the dangers. This is why regions are so important as it can show were stuff might happen and why.

Cave and Basin National Historic Site Cave and Basin is a very unique place that smells heavily like sulphur due to its release from the rocks. It was discovered by Frank, Billy and George in 1883. They had hopes of building a hotel resort on the hot springs that are heated by sulphur hot springs. They attempted to build a hotel but 3 years later in 1886 the government took the land as it was along the railway and built a resort around the pool that used hot spring water. They used it for years until they discovered a snail that had been increasingly endangered and could die off. They shut down the hotel and created the first ever national park; Hot springs national park, this led to Banff an Jasper national parks and many more across the country. This place was one of the first tourist attractions along the CPR and was used to generate revenue. It also led to the creation of national parks and animal conservation. I also shows that we sometimes do not evaluate enough and make sure it is safe to do so. This shows that one decision can lead to many key things in the creation of the west. This is a photo of the main hot spring, it smelt heavily like sulphur and you could see the snails that where quite tiny but once you saw them you could see all of them. The spring was underground but they dug a tunnel down to the hot spring. They also had modified the area so they could make it easier for public access and even put hotel rooms and was a resort near Banff.

Downtown Calgary Downtown Calgary represents the 5 themes of geography as it is a place that contains movement in its roads and train system that transports people around the city. It is a city region that is quite large and brings in lots of revenue with its many events. It also shows how we took this area in the plains and built a city modifying the terrain to fit a place that can support a city and have the space for it. It is a place of life, work and community with a lot of fun things to do. Calgary is very important to the construction of the west, they have a places for repairing trains and can generate a large amount of money to support a growing economy. It also has places like the Calgary zoo a place that brings in a large amount of revenue from tourism and take care of animals representing human environment interaction due to the animals there and the alteration of the climate there so the animals can survive. It also is near many tourist destanations so lots of people fly into Calgary bringing in extra reveneau. This photo represents a place that can help earn the funds to keep places that represents other parts of the 5 themes of geography and what it is used for. It also is a place that moves knowledge and goods to help us and is a place that many call home and a place that is a hub for movement, human environment interaction, and a place in a region.

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