AP Human Geography by Kristen Fredricks

Summer Assignment Reflection Tasks

kristenfredricks — 2020-08-26 12:52:12 UTC

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To see a live replay of Daily Confirmed Cases from Dec-August [purple is link].

The Boys' response

2020-09-18 12:33:02 UTC

Throughout the pandemic there have been many changes to the economy, both negative and positive in different places and different ways. More noticeably, for smaller businesses the coronavirus has negatively affected their source of income drastically due to a loss of customers over the last few months, as well as daily changing regulations for owners. “Supply chain disruptions could yet raise food security issues in some places.” Another change that has taken place due to the virus is that the small restaurants that kept their doors open have little to no competition because all the other small restaurants near them. In a long term effect of coronavirus, there are a couple. One is that coming out of the pandemic is that many companies will have a better understanding of how to operate on a much tighter budget, so with their normal budget reinstated they will work better than before the pandemic. The same is true for how many small businesses are now used to working with a significantly smaller chunk of their employees. Another positive long term effect is that the economy is expected to be better than before the pandemic, and the way researchers found this expectation is by looking at history and finding that after all past big economy shorts, an economic recession ocurred and it went back to what it was before or in some cases even higher. An excellent example is The American Economy prior to the Great Depression, where the introduction of the second world war brought upon a new American industrial revolution, where we produced tanks and planes en masse.

The Boys' Response #2

2020-09-18 12:39:10 UTC

Throughout the pandemic there have been many changes to the economy, both negative and positive in different places and different ways. More noticeably, for smaller businesses the coronavirus has negatively affected their source of income drastically due to a loss of customers over the last few months, as well as daily changing regulations for owners. “Supply chain disruptions could yet raise food security issues in some places.” Another change that has taken place due to the virus is that the small restaurants that kept their doors open have little to no competition because all the other small restaurants near them. In terms of a long term effect of coronavirus, there are a couple. One is that coming out of the pandemic is that many companies will have a better understanding of how to operate on a much tighter budget, so with their normal budget reinstated they will work better than before the pandemic. The same is true for how many small businesses are now used to working with a significantly smaller chunk of their employees. Another positive long term effect is that the economy is expected to be better than before the pandemic, and the way researchers found this expectation is by looking at history and finding that after all past big economic recessions, the economy shot back to what it was before or in some cases even higher. An excellent example is The American Economy prior to the Great Depression, where the introduction of the second world war brought upon a new American industrial revolution, where we produced tanks and planes en masse.

The Boys' Response #3

2020-09-18 13:09:42 UTC

Throughout the pandemic there have been many changes to the economy, both negative and positive in different places and different ways. More noticeably, for smaller businesses the coronavirus has negatively affected their source of income drastically due to a loss of customers over the last few months, as well as daily changing regulations for owners. “Supply chain disruptions could yet raise food security issues in some places.” Another change that has taken place due to the virus is that the small restaurants that kept their doors open have little to no competition because all the other small restaurants near them. In words of a long term effect of coronavirus, there are a couple. One is that coming out of the pandemic is that many companies will have a better understanding of how to operate on a much tighter budget, so with their normal budget reinstated they will work better than before the pandemic. The same is true for how many small businesses are now used to working with a significantly smaller chunk of their employees. Another positive long term effect is that the economy is expected to be better than before the pandemic, and the way researchers found this expectation is by looking at history and finding that after all past economic recessions, the economy shot back to what it was before or in some cases even higher. An excellent example is The American Economy prior to the Great Depression, where the introduction of the second world war brought upon a new American industrial revolution, where we produced tanks and planes en masse.

Camron: How the map relates to the Summer Assignment

2020-09-18 13:18:54 UTC

The map relates back to our summer assignment for different reasons. For starters, it shows a pattern in the spread of coronavirus. Part one has a question that asks this, and using this map shows that many of the countries with larger amounts of people are getting hit by the coronavirus the most. This directly relates to Part one, and is tied to topics 2, 5, 10, and 7. #2 and #5 relate to it because the map shows that countries with different economies are affected in different ways. The map relates to topic 10 because the majority of the highlighted countries on the map mostly house large cities, which is a prime location for the coronavirus to spread. To add on, topic #7 is related to the map because the country's environment and geographic location affects the spread of the virus. For example, in Australia, there aren't many cases because it is a secluded island in the ocean, whereas Brazil has large cities and towns where people live very close to one another, and is surrounded by many other countries.

Ben P. - How the map relates to our summer assignment

2020-09-20 21:09:47 UTC

This map connects to our summer assignment and the topics provided within it, through how many confirmed cases on a weekly basis each country has. An example of this, is how the most highlighted countries are generally ones with a very large population and/or booming economy. Think of Russia, The US, Brazil and India. This relates back to topics 2,5,and 10, all of which in some way reference or solely talk about countries who have massive cities with dense populations, or an economy in danger from COVID-19. Another connection to our prior topics is how many countries that impose significantly more control on their citizens have a lower confirmed case count despite their dense population (although we can attribute some of this to lower testing). An excellent example of this, is China and their communist government where social distancing procedures were put in place and enforced harshly.

How the Stimuli Shows the Significance of the Corona Virus

2020-09-21 00:46:24 UTC

The stimuli selected is critical in understanding how the global pandemic we are currently experiencing has directly affected the environment. In various places across the globe there has been a dramatic change in the environment. The pictures depicted numerous cities around the world before and after the stay at home order was mandated. Before, the air was polluted, the skies were gray, and everything was unpleasant. Los Angeles was ranked for the worst air quality in the United States in 2019 however as of 2020 it has one of the best in the entire world. The dull gray landscape pictured in the before pictures were juxtaposed to the bright, blue skied images shown in the after section.

DanDan - The Relation the Map Has With Our Summer Assignment

2020-09-21 12:45:32 UTC

The map shows how many confirmed cases on average over 7 days, this relates to our summer assignment because some topics do connect with this stimuli. Our thoughts are most connected to the 1918 flu topic since we could go back and look at a map and see the confirmed cases of the Flu. Although, a peak of interest of a possible topic that does tie to the map, is the medical topic. Along with that statement my reasoning is because in the description of the map it says ‘confirmed cases.’ Moreover, the United States has a lot of confirmed cases, but if we look at Africa, their confirmed cases in some areas say 0, which is likely because they don't have/enough medical treatment to test their citizens. In spite of the other topics that were researched, they don’t seem to have a strong connection to the map. In particular race, migration and food my other three topics have no arrows, symbols or words on the map that would connect them to the map. Finally, the map in our eyes only connects to the 1918 Flu and Medical topics that were researched.

DanDan - One other selected stimuli that shows the huge impact Corona virus has had on the world.

2020-09-21 12:50:45 UTC

We chose this map that was on our Summer Assignment page and it shows the impact Corona has had on the world. We compared the map that was given to us and this one that was found. These two stimulus show what a huge impact Corona has on the world. As well as that, the first map shows how much testing the countries were doing, the second map is how many confirmed cases in those countries several weeks later. Furthermore, you can see how in the beginning Canada and Australia did a lot of testing, while the United State’s didn’t. Moreover, looking at the confirmed cases it shows that Canada and Australia’s cases aren’t nearly as high as the United States cases. In conclusion, this shows how such a big impact Corona testing has on the world’s number of cases.

How the map relates to the summer assignment. (Maggie)

2020-09-21 13:32:19 UTC

There are many ways the summer assignment can relate to the map shown. For example, the map represents the amount of COVID-19 cases that are confirmed as positive globally. However, the number is significantly smaller than the true number of cases because there is a lack of tests available, especially in Africa. This can relate back to the summer assignment specifically topic II which specifically talked about healthcare access. Africa is among the less wealthy of continents. It has a reputation for having poor water supplies, food, and especially medical equipment. The map shows Africa having a minimal amount of cases, however this is only regarding the handful of confirmed cases. There are undoubtedly thousands of cases who are suffering in silence due to the sparse testing resources. In all, the map does not give an accurate representation of the true number of COVID-19 cases on a global scale.

How the map relates to the summer assignment. (Delaney)

2020-09-21 23:52:57 UTC

The map that is shown can connect back to the summer assignment in various ways. For instance, the US has the number of leading cases of the coronavirus. Unlike Africa, the US has an amazing health care system for most of the population. This makes sense because the numbers on the charts have skyrocketed because there are so many tests available. On the picture of the world, the US is said to have 50,000 COVID-19 cases on a 7 day average as of August 26. This is offset with locations such as Europe because they have many cases yet it is not apparent on the map.

kristenfredricks — 2020-09-22 19:53:17 UTC

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Eryn How the Map Relates

2020-09-23 02:24:00 UTC

The map that is depicted relates to the summer assignment because it shows the bombastic amounts of cases in all the continents and countries. An example of this is Brazil because it has the most cases in South America. It can be said that Brazil has had a hard time handling the coronavirus outbreak, much like the United States. Both countries have struggled to keep people inside and away from the infected. They also both have such densely populated cities it is a struggle to keep up with all the residents, much less keep them inside.

Lexi

2020-09-23 02:55:56 UTC

The world map that is shown relates back to the summer assignment in many different ways. Asia is a great continent to represent this because it has a large number of cases. India has the most cases on the map and behind that is Russia. All of these countries have a large population, which in return makes the COVID-19 cases higher. There is a pattern evident throughout the map in which countries with higher populations have higher numbers of confirmed cases of covid-19. India is also on the coast of Asia, but is surrounded on either side by other countries. Additionally, China is right above India and China is a very populated country. This is how COVID-19 spread even faster than we ever thought was possible.

Matt Hayes - How the map relates to our summer assignment

2020-09-23 14:20:18 UTC

The map shown on Padlet shows data on the amount of covid-19 cases throughout the world depending on different specific areas of the world. The map connects to at least four out of seven of the unit topics, those topics including unit I- Think geographically, unit II- Population & Migration, unit VI- Cities, and unit VII- Eco Development & Industry. How the map connects to unit I- Think geographically, is that while studying the map, it very clearly shows that the amount of cases in each part of the map depends on which country is being displayed. By showing the cases country by country it makes you think geographically in the sense that you need to understand why each country has the amount of cases that it does. “For this purpose we track the impact of the pandemic across our 207 countries.” (Statistics and Research, Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19- source) How the map relates unit II- Population & Migration is that the amount of cases directly relates to the population in that area. Specifically cases of covid 19 relate to population because that lets covid 19 exist, and population density in the sense that the more dense the population is the quicker covid 19 will spread. Also how migration relates is that, that is a surefire way to spread covid 19 globally. The source (Covid 19 death rate vs. Population density) shows that the denser the population is, the more deaths per million people there are. The way that unit VI- Cities relates is that city's will raise the overall population thus causing more cases which will affect the map. Evidence of this is that countries with more cities have more cases. The way unit VII- Eco Development & Industry relates to the map, is that with the corona virus outbreak many projects have been delayed or shut down such as a lot of major projects that are considered industrial. Making another connection, without the projects getting done or being delayed, the economy in those areas may be affected in some way.