Intro to Human Geography

Mapping of the World Pt 2: The United States 1. Washington 2. Oregon 3. California 4. Arizona 5. Nevada 6. Utah 7. Idaho 8. Montana 9. Wyoming 10. Colorado 11. New Mexico 12. Texas 13. Oklahoma 14. Kansas 15. Nebraska 16. South Dakota 17. North Dakota 18. Minnesota 19. Iowa 20. Missouri 21. Arkansas 22. Louisiana 23. Wisconsin 24. Michigan 25. Illinois 26. Indiana 27. Ohio 28. Kentucky 29. Tennesse 30. Missisipi 31. Alabama 32. Georgia 33. Florida 34. South Carolina 35. North Carolina 36. Virginia 37. West Virginia 38. Pennsylvania 39. New York 40. Vermont 41. New Hampshire 42. Maine 43. Massachusetts 44. Rhode Island 45. Connecticut 46. New Jersey 47. Delaware 48. Maryland 49. Alaska 50. Hawaii

Today in class, our key question was 'What is Human Geography?'.  The goal of learning this was to understand what we'll learn about throughout the school year.  The first learning objective was to define geography, human geography and physical geography.  Geography is the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of the Earth and the planets.  Human geography is the study of people and their communities, cultures, economics and interactions with the environment by studying their relations with and across space and place.  Physical geography is the study of processes and patterns in the natural environment like the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and geosphere, as opposed to a cultural or built environment which is the study of human geography.  We also learned in class that the atmosphere is the air, hydrosphere is the water, biosphere is the living organisms and geosphere is the rocks, sand particles and minerals.  The second learning objective was to understand the