ENVIROMENT and society United states

1. ENVIROMENT and societyUnited states

2. EARLIEST SETTLERS • Ocean levels were much lower do to huge ice caps • Bering Strait was the Beringia Isthmus • Asians most likely followed animals as they hunted

3. ADAPTING TO THE ENVIRONMENT • Besides being Indian and coming from Asia, what do the Plains Indians and the Eskimo have in common? • Neither had/have many trees to build • Both relied on wildlife for their existence • (Buffalo / Whales)

4. NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES • Place Names are names giving to locations and landforms that are influenced by other culture groups • Examples: Appalachians, Mississippi, Alaska, Arizona, Texas, Nebraska, Dakota Indians on Mississippi River Appalachian Mts

5. PLACE NAMES of EUROPEAN influence • SPANISH PLACE NAMES (Came for God, Gold and Glory; many cities were formed by missionaries and named after them • Florida, California, San Antonio, Santa Fe, San Francisco, Los Angeles • ENGLISH PLACE NAMES • Prince Edward Island, Canada, Virginia, New York (states), Richmond, Charleston (cities) • FRENCH PLACE NAMES (French came to America trapping furs as a result most French areas are near water - the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi and other rivers) • St. Lawrence River (Canada), Quebec and Montreal (Canada), Detroit and New Orleans (Cities named by French)

6. Rivers • Rivers are the most important feature for settlement 1. Drinking water 2. Food Sources • Hunting and fishing • Rich soil for agriculture 3. Transportation

7. Physical Influences • Fall Line – area where the soft rock (deep rivers) of the Coastal plains meets the hard rock (shallow rivers) of the Piedmont which led to a line of major cities along the east coast

8. Mountains(Appalachian and Rockies) • Trains and later highways were the best way to travel across the continent • Large amounts of human labor and engineering were required to create the passes • Railroad was the first and most important means of westward travel created out of the industrial revolution Industrial Revolution – global movement of creating and developing machinery which led to many people moving off farms and into major cities for better jobs. Trains were developed out of this movement

9. Mountains • Rivers allow movement from the coast • Railroad connected the east coast and west coast • Highways have connected everything in between

10. Mountains and Smog • Smog is the combination of fog and pollution from automobile and factory exhaust • Locations like L.A. and Phoenix have mountains preventing the pollutions from blow through which leads to the thick brown smoky looking clouds • Mountains act like a bowl and trap pollution • L.A. isn’t even the world’s top ten

12. Urbanization – increasing city conditions • Infrastructure – Construction necessary to support the growth of cities (Roads, building, stores...) • Urban Sprawl – the growth and spreading of cities • Automobile is the biggest cause • Negative effects of Urban Sprawl • Increased pollution • Loss of wildlife/habitat • Increased travel times

13. URBANIZATION • Metropolitan areas have one or two large cities with hundreds of suburbs • Dallas/Ft. Worth • Megalopolis – Overlapping of urban condition • Travel from city to city to city without leaving urban conditions • The largest US megalopolis is in the Northeast

14. URBANIZATION • Gentrification – Also called Urban Renewal. Restoring rundown buildings and cities • Negatives • Increases taxes in the area • Poor are often displace (have to move)