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EQ- What is culture? How does culture affect other aspects of geography?. Table of Contents: 21. Baraka Questions 22. Culture and Cultural Ecology Notes 23. Physical Processes Chart. September 4. Agenda: Review Culture Cultural Ecology. Homework. Due FRIDAY-

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  1. EQ- What is culture? How does culture affect other aspects of geography? Table of Contents: 21. Baraka Questions 22. Culture and Cultural Ecology Notes 23. Physical Processes Chart September 4 Agenda: Review Culture Cultural Ecology

  2. Homework • Due FRIDAY- • In two complete paragraphs, explain how humans have modified the environment in the Netherlands and in South Florida. • Due TUESDAY- Choose one of the following: • Create a collage of images that represent your culture. Your collage must be a collection of images and pictures from the internet or magazines. Must be in color. • Create an edible or 3-D replica of one of the four biomes. Write a paragraph to explain the conditions of your biome. • Create a poster board with images and facts about environment modification in New Orleans and its impact on effects of Hurricane Katrina.

  3. Culture • The body of beliefs, material traits, and social forms that people in an area/group share • Helps to answer “why” each region on Earth is unique • Geographers look at: • 1. What people care about (ideas, beliefs, values, customs) • 2. What people take care of (ways of earning a living, obtaining food, clothing and shelter)

  4. What people care about: What people take care of: Ideas, beliefs, values of people Language, religion and ethnicity The production of material wealth Food, clothing, shelter, art Political institutions

  5. Culture Shock!

  6. MDC- More Developed Countries LDC- Less Developed Countries Regions include North America, Europe, Japan Possession of wealth and material goods is higher Manufacturing or service jobs Regions include sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, East Asia, South Asia, SE Asia, Latin America Possession of wealth and material goods is lower Agriculture jobs

  7. Cultural Ecology • Cultural Ecology- the study of human-environment relationships • Humber and Ritter- geographers that came up with environmental determinism- the idea that the physical environment caused us to socially develop the way that we have • Possibilism- environment may limit human activities, but we can adjust to the environment • Ex: choose the crops to grow in a particular climate

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