We huffed and puffed about our 1500 word essay due about Latin America and we have to bring in a unique recipe for latin america regions such as brazil mexica peru any where in latin america.
• Human Geo: 20 points
Today we looked at a powerpoint and here are some of my notes
• 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean
• Before that, indigenous (native) people lived in the Americas. But how many? Due to a lack of written records, estimates vary widely
• In any case, 95% of them died after Europeans arrived
1. The Europeans settle on the east coast of N.America
2. Settlers surge across the Appalachian Mountains
3. The move continues to great plains, Utah, Oregon, California
• One of the largest and most rapid human transformations of the landscape in history
• Megalopolis
○ A mega-metropolis stretching from Boston to NYC to Philly to Baltimore to Washington, DC
○ Over 40 million people in Baltimore
• Westward movement
○ Offer high-tech, jobs, cool recreation, great scenery, a break from winters
○ Expansion means more homes, subdivisions, malls, retirement complexes
• Black Exodus from South
○ Post-Civil War, freed slaves still worked as sharecroppers
○ Fewer farming jobs sent blacks north to the cities
§ Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, LA, SF
• Rural-to-Urban Migration
○ Country folks moving to big city
○ 200 years ago population was 5% urban
○ In 2008, it's 82% urban (CIA Factbook)
• Counterurbanization
○ Leaving large cities for small towns or rural areas
§ More affordable
§ Less crime
§ Better schools
§ Easier retirement
• North America is a mosaic of different peoples
• The US was formed by breaking violently from Great Britain
• This region has the most powerful economy and the most affluent population
Today Matt Ryan was not prepared and he chickened out today is a sad day but here are some of the notes i wrote for today in class.
• Most powerful economy is North America
• Baltimore is a megalopolis
• North America is a mobile nation
• The development of transportation has shaped the nation
• City dwellers consume 175 gallons daily
• Water quality is becoming a problem
Matt Ryan rapped in class today it was hilarious. He should be back tommorrow to have a better rap song about the 5 themes of geography. Well anyway here are some of the notes i took
- The most economic country and most globalized nation is North America
- Some times it doesn't trickle down to everyone
- North America people move a lot
- many people by the age of 15 dont life in the same place they were born
- by 2050 there will be 445 million people
- Transportation determines the growth of cities
Baltimore is an ever expanding and highly populated city. Nearly 335 million people live in North America; they are the world’s most affluent and highly mobile populations. Big cities like Baltimore have many people commuting to different locations. The road I-95 is a huge benefit for Baltimore because it makes commuting easier. Baltimore is in the top five largest settlements of the United States. Immigration is a great factor in increasing populations of regions, but that is not the only factor in the increase of populations. In 1946 through 1965 the population grows very rapidly because of the baby boomers generation. The total fertility rate is 2.1 which is the ideal TFR for a steadily growing population. Forty-three million people are foreign to our country these growing numbers lead demographic experts to believe by the year 2050 North America will have 445 million people. One in five Americans move annually mainly because of job opportunities, but where do they move to? They move toward the middle of North America where there commute might be easier to handle. Changing transportation technologies shaped the growth of a city in the United States. The horse and buggy were very limited in their ability to get to places very fast, so it made it almost impossible to get to your job if the town was huge. Then they invented the street car which had better speed and almost never ran out of juice so the cities could be even bigger because people could go different places faster and it was more reliable. The final transportation device is the tram. The tram can carry a lot of people at one time, and you barely have to pay for it. The tram is reliable and very fast making our cities even bigger!
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