Today in human geo we talked about regions and the cultural landscape. A region is an area of earth defined by one or more distinctive characteristics.The cultural landscape is a combination of both physical and human uniquely define places and areas. The physical features in Maryland are Ocean City and the mountains. Human Characteristics would be the language, religion, and economics. We talked about how the Maryland region is different from maybe Florida or Texas. Then in class we looked at a map of USA and they were color coded blue and red. They were separated by democratic and republican. We had to break them up into regions but we had to be careful to not put a state on the west coast like California with a state on the east coast like Maine in the same region because they are so different.
Today in human geo we watched another video. It was Hans Rosling he teaches global health. He made of graph. The X axis was life span and the Y axis was income. He showed the world separated by color dots. Europe was brown. Asia was red. Middle East was green. Sub-Saharan was blue. Americas was yellow. The graph started in year 1810. In 1810 all people were sick and poor and the life expectancy were 40 years old except for U.K. and Netherlands. As the years went on the life expectancy got higher and people got more money.
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