"I'm very, very satisfied - apart from winning, the team played really well against a strong team." the coach of South Africa team said.
The also told the reporters that "It's a game that has given our team a little bit more experience at a high international level."
"Finding Earth-sized planets is like trying to detect a very tiny flea in that same headlight."
What is geography?
Geography is the study of Earth's lands, features and trait, tenants, and phenomena.
Where are you right now?
The absolute location of where I am is 24°49'14.28"N 120°58'24.00"E. And my house is on 11F, No. 189, Nanya St., North District, Hsinchu City, Taiwan 300. Now I'm in my room. You walk 5 big steps from the door straight into my house. Then you turn right and walk about 10 steps you might hear my sister screaming or singing. And then you walk straight through the door of my room. And you'll see my room.
What do we mean by the terms “physical, human and cultural” when we describe a place?
When you describe a place with physical characteristics means to describe the place with its landforms, its features. To describe a place with human characteristics means to use the place's political, buildings, and man-made thing to describe it. Cultural characteristics is to describe the place with its the interactions of humans and geography.
How do humans adapt to and/or change the environment?
Humans adapt to by using the natural thing in their environment. And humans change environment by building thing like house, shop, roads, highways, bridges, towers.....
How do we depend upon the environment?
We depend on the nature sources like petroleum, coal..... And we make things from woods.
How does movement affect your daily life?
Movement really affect you in daily life because you move every single day. And it is impossible to not move. When you move from a place to another that's a movement too, and you might use some transportation such as bus, train, airplane, car, boat, high-speed-rail..... Not just living things can move. Nonliving things can move too. For example, ideas can move from a place to another place by the internet and by people.
What “items” are being moved that you interact with on a regular basis?
Foods is an example, food can move from a country to another, it can be moved by airplanes or boats. And the
Describe the difference between a formal, functional and perceptual description of a region.
Formal region is where you can see boundaries on the map. Functional regions is like city or suburb where most of the people live and work. Perceptual region is where you can't see the boundaries on map, people imagine the boundaries in their mind.
This video is about geography standards. I learn that there are 18 contents standards and divided in 6 essential elements.
- The world in spatial term
Using maps and other materials to understand our world.
- Places and regions
Combine the places into regions, to help us understand complexity of Earth's surface.
- Physical systems
Understand the physical system of Earth, and how does it work with nature.
- Human systems
The humans population, characteristic, and interaction.
- Environment and society
How society adapt to the environment and change the environment.
- The uses of geography
To help us to explain the past and get ready for tomorrow' Earth.
Another geography standards is "Geography Skills".
- Geography Skills
Asking geographic questions, acquiring geographic information, organizing geographic data, analysis and synthesis, and finding answer.
From My House (Taipei) To My Grandma' House.....
National Geographic- Geography.
Our homework is to watch the 2 short videos. The first video is about how geography affect the climate. I learned that geography is the story of Earth and it's inhabitants, the Earth that we live now, and the Earth that we will live in the feature. I also learned that 'Ge' means Earth and 'graphia' means description. I learned about the climate that Asia has. Because the land and water heat up unevenly. It sets up temperature difference, when temperature are different it sets up pressure difference. And that's how the flow of wind start.
The second video is about how geography affect people, places, clothes, buildings, foods, sport, culture....
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Where is the art room of HIS?
If you are at Humanities classroom (Door). You need to:
Walk walk to East South 2 steps.
Walk to East about 7~12 meters.
Turn to East North.
Walk down stairs (2 floors).
Turn to you right and walk about 12~20 steps.
Then there's the art room of HIS.
