Today in class we learned more vocabulary for the unit. The words we learned today were the types of regions and landscapes. Some examples are cultural landscape, and formal region also known as a uniform region or homogeneous region. The definition of cultural landscape is a combination of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features such as agriculture and industry, and and physical features such as climate and vegetation. The definition of formal landscape is an area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics. When we talked about formal regions, we did an activity showing an example of one, which by the way is a perfect example. The maps of the U.S. that show the states voting in each region for democrat and republican parties. This was a great way to explain this because if gives you a variety of regions that all have the same thing in common, and that is exactly what a formal region is. Looking forward to more discussion.
Today's class was one of the most interesting ones we've had so far. Today's discussion focused mainly around what thinking globally and acting locally means. What do they mean? An example used in class today was farming. If everyone starting farming for their fruits and vegetables, it would affect grocery stores. Now of course the stores wouldn't go out of business, the fruits and vegetables rate being sold would increase. So in other words, something we did locally would effect globally. But besides this discussion we talked about our thoughts on voting. How more older people tend to vote more nowadays. This brought up the discussion of weather or not the age for kids to be able to start voting should be lowered to age 16. In my opinion, I think at this age we are too young and immature to be asked and vote for political affairs, because honestly everyone would just think the same as their parents. You hear kids arguing politically, but you know it's just them tal...
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