Unit:
​Patterns in Physical Geography
Our Big Question:
How does the environment affect human decisions?
We will need to discover:
We will need to discover:
- What are the patterns in physical geography around the world?
- What forces produce geographic patterns?
- How do patterns in physical geography affect people around the world?
The year is 79 CE (almost 2000 years ago), and the place is a small seaside resort in southern Italy. The people who live in the resort are in the middle of a regular day, trading goods, visiting restaurants for lunch, and visiting the communal baths, when all of the sudden the nearby mountain explodes. This is Mount Vesuvius, one of the most active volcanos in Europe, and its eruption destroyed the city of Pompeii while preserving its legacy in layers of ash. Fast-forward 1900 years to Mount St. Helens, located in Washington, U.S. The 1980 eruption of this volcano killed 57 people and caused billions of dollars in damage. Two cities, two locations, two millennia, and yet natural disaster is the same. Why?
Patterns are the organization of physical phenomena (like water features, natural disasters, and climate). During this unit, you will explore the physical patterns in our world, and will understand how these patterns affect human decisions.
You will examine patterns in physical features of the earth's surface, climate, and vegetation. You will investigate the forces that contribute to these patterns, and develop an understanding of why these events occur and how they affect the decisions we make.
You will examine patterns in physical features of the earth's surface, climate, and vegetation. You will investigate the forces that contribute to these patterns, and develop an understanding of why these events occur and how they affect the decisions we make.
Unit Outline:
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