Transcript 1 2 - Barren County Schools

Five Themes of Geography
Using your notes you will identify the
following:
• Location
– Absolute
– relative
• Place
– Physical
– Cultural/human
• Movement
– People
– Goods
– Ideas
• Regions
– Formal
– Functional
– Vernacular
• Human Environmental
Interaction
– Humans adapt to the
environment
– Humans modify the
environment
– Humans depend on the
environment
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555Trojan Trail
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Mountains on the East side of the river
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• Nestled deep in the tropical rainforest on the
island of Borneo, Pareh is a collection of about
60 weathered wooden houses perched on
stilts and enfolded by coconut palms, banana
trees, and the dappled green overhang of the
towering forest. Pareh's inhabitants belong to
the indigenous tribes of Borneo collectively
identified as the Dayak. They have lived here
for centuries, raising rubber trees, pumpkin,
cassava, and rice, and harvesting wood for
fuel and lumber.
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• In 2005, a group of village men went hunting
in the forest several hours from Pareh and
stumbled on a clearing in which the trees had
recently been felled. That was how they
discovered that Perseroan Terbatas Ledo
Lestari, or ptll, a subsidiary of an Indonesian
company named Duta Palma Nusantara, was
seizing their ancestral land to establish a
massive plantation of oil palms, a tree whose
oil is rendered and refined into biodiesel.
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• The number of tiger attacks on people is
growing in India’s Sundarban islands as habitat
loss and dwindling prey caused by climate
change drives them to prowl into villages for
food, experts said on Monday.
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