HumanEnvironment Interaction How does the environment affect people

Human-Environment Interaction How does the environment affect people? How do people affect the environment? Modify – people change the environment Ex. Flatten/cut through land to build roads Adapt – people adjust to the environment Ex. Climate affects clothing and housing Depend – people need things from the environment Ex. Fishing, farming, hunting

Place How do you recognize places? Human Characteristics – manmade creations Ex. White House - Washington, DC Physical Characteristics – natural creations Ex. Grand Canyon - Arizona

Location How can you explain where something can be found? Absolute (Exact) location – the specific place where you can find something Ex. 30°N, 135°W or 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington, DC 20500 *when writing coordinates, degrees latitude, (North/South) is written before degrees longitude (West/East) Relative location – saying where something is by comparing it to a starting point Ex. Chicago is northeast of Denver

Movement Where does it go? Why? How does it get there? Movement includes the travel of people, goods and ideas. Push factor – reason for leaving Ex. shortage of food in an area Pull factor – reason for going to a certain place Ex. close to source of fresh water

Region How are places alike or different? Formal – determined by a government (by borders) or physical features Ex. US country border, Great Salt Lake Functional – region linked by something that happens there – economics, common transportation or communication systems Ex. TV or radio station, school bus route riders, utility company customers, Silicon Valley Vernacular – defined by people’s perceptions, linked to culture Ex. The South, Middle East, Latin America