History,+Science+and+Geograhpy

These three subjects are the most interesting ones, I put them altogether because they are in a ways all related to one another. My work will be under each heading named for each subject, they are just in the same page!

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= = =**// 1. //**= The Five Themes of Geography Place Movement Environment Interaction Regions Place: In Geography place is a very important to learn because everywhere is a place and has some sort of location. People have to learn how to make sense of reading locations and directions to get to the place they want to get to. There are small and large places with lots of people and very little. That’s what this theme is all about, reading different specific maps and location. Finding out how to get from a restaurant to the park, because place is a lot bigger than the other theme, regions. A place would be Toronto, Kitchener and Brantford, Smaller places in Provinces, like Ontario. In this theme, there are words like, absolute location, which means to give a description of an independent place, different from any other. You also learn about longitude and latitude and a little about the 4 hemispheres and a lot of other things like Alphanumeric Location and how to read a key on a map. Place is like describing the place you live, in different forms and ways. Movement: The theme of Movement has to do with how people get from one place to another. Movement connects with places at different locations. Boats sailing, people walking, cars driving, and birds and planes flying are all different ways of movement. Even when families or animals migrate to a different place, which is also movement. When magazines and newspaper travel information to people across the world, and mail being delivered to houses from the mail man. This is all movement and there are even more ways. People use all different ways of movement to get places faster, like the subways, highways, and trains. The most used way for transportation, is trucks and cars. Environment: This theme is about the animals that live in earth and how their environment is getting ruined by our buildings, roads, and other changes that we have made. There are physical and social environment weather effects were you will go, and what you wear, and people effect who you talk and hang out with and whom you don’t. Animals too depend on what pack they follow and were they decide to live. The climate affects every human and animal. It makes you decide what you’re going to wear and where you’re going to go and live. If you like the cold places then you should live near the colder places like polar bears. If you like the warm, the place for you is near the equator were all the birds fly for the winter. Landforms are the things on earth like, mountains, volcanoes earthquakes and other things on the land that cause hills holes and things that take 4 billion years to create. Every living thing needs water, to drink or to live in. Whales, fish, toads, anemones, and dolphins all need to live in the water to survive. They all need a different type of water to live in through, Cold arctic water or air temperature; it all depends on the atmosphere. The soil depends on were setterlers make their houses on firm hard land, so it is because it is a better building place, some animals might like soft ground, to burrow or something. Natural vegetation is trees, so if you want to have good hunting, then you want to live in a forest with trees. Animals tend to live in forests because they want to be away from people and predators. Animals like to be by plants for food and so do humans. Interaction: Interaction is when the earth gives people the opportunity to do things, to get things they need in life. People use waterfalls to dam up rivers to make electricity and they clear forests to make cities and farmland. The earth gives us things to use, but we have to go through a challenge to get it. Things can get in the way though when people are trying to get these resources, such as earthquakes and tornadoes. So you have a challenge to get through to get to a resource, but have a few problems along the way. A hurricane is a destructive interaction, which is part of the challenge. When you have an opportunity you usually take it because it might not return. Different cultures get different opportunities and have different ways to get them; people have to look out for opportunities because they don’t come around very often. Usually opportunities come depending on where you live, a farming country gets opportunities for farming and a lot of those people go though the challenge of taking it. Regions: A region is a land or water mass that shares much similarity, such as mountains, forest, desert and many others. It has similar history and all relates to each other. The globe shows different regions by making them different colors. Some regions are dividing in to sections just for people, like using telephone area codes to identify different places in the region. The Rockies is a region that is full of rocks. It is a region because it is different from the other places around it, it is located in the same area and shared the same history. People live in the Rockies so it is probably spilt up into different area codes. Different people live in different regions, depending on the environment. = //*History*// = = = =**//1. //** = Who had the Best Life? (level 4 J ) 2009-11-19 Aisha I think that the Nuns and Priests had the best life because...  Most of the Nuns and Priests had to get a job to make a living, supporting their family and themselves. They have had to get the job, and if may have been hard to get it, but its pays off and at least its better then living in someone else’s corn field and doing there work or going to the First Nations to trade for furs, in snow storms, like the habitants and the coureurs des bois. It took awhile to become a Nun, because you had to go to a school for girls...And there weren’t many of those around. Only boys were to go and learn from school, until a widow became a nun, to take care of her son, and created the Ursuline missionary in Quebec were she was trying to turn the First Nations into Christians, they then had girls and boys schools. Being a Nun or Priest would make the people smart, and they would know a lot about what they were doing. Going through school to get that opportunity would be great because the people really cared about them, and they helped them with their needs, and fought to have schools for girls, (The Ursuline). Even thought they were bias and wanted everyone to be catholic, they changed the world in many ways, good and bad. They all thought that just because they were important in the church, that they could control others to become what they were, catholic. They went to the first nations to try and turn them to their side, which was not really a right thing to do. The first nations had their own spiritual beliefs and the Nuns and Priest should have not tried to change it. By being a Nun, as said before, there were only some schools to go to which were for girls that would give you the education. If the girls did go to school and graduated then they were expected to become a mother, wife of Nun. To be a priest (or Nun) they had to christen as well, or what’s the point of having a job that involves being in a church doing something you don’t belief in or like? Having to live in the life of habitats would be hard because of all the work they had to do all year round and they didn’t get much out of the work they did. Harvesting the crops of another family’s farms and feeding the animals they didn’t get to eat much out of. The reason they did this was because they didn’t have another place to live. The Seigneurs family was the one who had no work to do, and used all the work that the habitants did to the animals and farm fields. Being part of the coureurs des bois was another hard life to live, in my opinion because to me, it would be fun going back and forth trading with the first nation tribe in snow storms, thunder storms, or in the hot summer sun. Of course they got rewarded of their great accomplishments, but it was hard work. Even though they made New France a wealthier place, they choose to go or stay. Overall I think that the priests and nuns had the best life, not out of everybody who lived back then, but the coureurs des bois and the habitants had a worse life then the then them. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = //*Science*// = ​