Transcript Five Themes of Yellowstone 2011- Tressa Earley and Mary Ann Lee

ISU: Conflicts in Public Land
Usage: The Greater
Yellowstone Ecosystem
ECON 694.310
What are the
Five Themes of Geography?
Yellowstone National Park Style!
I. Location
A. Exact Location is measured in latitude and
longitude
1. Latitude lines measure distance north and
south of the equator.
2. Longitude lines measure distance east and
west of the Prime Meridian.
B. Relative location is in relation to some other
place.
Activity: What is the exact location of the following place?
Find it in atlas: Yellowstone National Park
Now describe it in relative terms.
What is the Exact Location of
Yellowstone National Park?
II. Place:
Place is described in terms of physical and
human features
1. physical includes climate, soil, plant life,
animal life, and bodies of water
2. human means kinds of houses, language,
and transportation.
Activity: Write a description of the place on the index card
without naming it, then exchange it with the person sitting
next to you. Can you identify the place from the
description alone?
What makes Yellowstone National
Park, its own place?
Activity: How does this song describe a place? What kind of place
is this? What are its physical and human characteristics? What
other songs do you know that describe places?
Home on the range
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free
The breezes so balmy and light
That I would not exchange my home on the range
For all of the cities so bright
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
How often at night when the heavens are bright
With the light from the glittering stars
Have I stood there amazed and asked as I gazed
If their glory exceeds that of ours
Oh, I love those wild flow'rs in this dear land of
ours The curlew, I love to hear scream
Home, home on the range
And I love the white rocks and the antelope flocks
Where the deer and the antelope play
That graze on the mountaintops green
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
III. Human/Environment Interaction
Interaction between people and their environment
Activity: List ways that people affect their environment.
Are these harmful or helpful?
Human/Environment Interactions
Current Events
Grizzly Bear Kills Hiker in
Yellowstone National Park
A husband and wife's
backcountry hike along a
popular trail turned tragic when
they stumbled upon a grizzly
bear and her cubs and the 57year-old man was mauled to
death, Yellowstone National
Park officials said.
The couple was hiking along the
Wapiti Lake Trail in the Grand
Canyon area of the park, park
officials told ABC News. They
had walked about a mile and a
half from the trail head when
they saw the grizzly sow and
her cubs.
"The bear attacked the man and
killed him," said Yellowstone
spokesman Al Nash.
The woman screamed out for help
as the bear was attacking her
husband. Nearby hikers heard the
pleas and dialed 911. By the time
park rangers arrived, the man was
dead.
"The initial indication is the sow
grizzly was protecting her cubs,"
Nash said. "The investigation, as it
unfolds, will help us determine if
that, indeed, was the case."
The park is not releasing the
identities or the hometown of the
couple.
Druska is fighting against
the spread of Brucellosis*
by bison to her cattle? What
can she do?
Martin is a cattle rancher
outside of Yellowstone. He
has lost calves to the YNP
wolves, what should he do?
Clyde is a businessman
who relies on the winter
use of Yellowstone for his
livelihood.
Bison and Brucellosis* Issues: How do the bison
affect the surrounding ranches and ranchers? How has
the brucellosis affected the profits earned by surrounding
ranches and the prices of their beef?
*Brucellosis caused by the bacterium
Brucella abortus, can cause pregnant
cattle, elk, and bison to abort their
calves.
How have ranchers had to adapt to the
reintroduction of wolves into
Yellowstone National Park?
How many snowmobiles
are too many?
IV. Movement:
Movement of people, goods, and ideas
technology
telephone
internet
email
media
television
newspapers
radio
transportation
trucks and automobiles
trains and planes
ships
Activity: Find the origin of manufacture of as many items
as you can on your body, in your desk or in the room.
Examples: shirt, sneakers, jewelry, backpack, folders, pens
pencils, and anything else you can find out the origin of
manufacture. Make a list of the item and where it was
made. How many of the items in the classroom can you
name that have been manufactured in another country?
What are the raw materials needed to make these items, the
most likely place of production or manufacture, and the
most likely form of transportation from the place of
manufacture to the classroom?
Standard: SS.7.4
V. Region: A region is an area of the world that has similar,
unifying characteristics. The characteristics may be physical,
human, or cultural.
How do people from different climatic regions dress? What are some of the different
foods do they eat?
5 Physical Regions of the U.S
1. Pacific Coast and Intermountain Region
•
includes mountains along coast
2. Rocky Mountains
•
highest peaks in the U.S, above tree level
3. Great Plains
•
flat grassland with little trees
4. Appalachian Mountains
•
lower and less rugged than the Rockies
5. Atlantic Coastal Plain
•
flat lowlands along the coast
Activity: What region would Yellowstone National Park
be?
THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
THE GREAT PLAINS
APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS
ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN
PACIFIC COAST
Location
The Five Themes of
Geography Review
Place
Human/Environment
Interaction
Movement
Region
Reflections
Activity: Take a moment to reflect and
write two or three things that this
presentation has motivated you to learn
more about.