Unit 1 Country Portfolio: Cameroon by

Unit 1 Country Portfolio: Cameroon by https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2 Ricardo Martínez en-us 2013-09-05 01:56:57 UTC 2023-02-28 14:58:30 UTC hello@padlet.com http://d2s8n7nv9yizdf.cloudfront.net/assets/thmbs/monkey-ce1fc649fb972307aa07275ebf3d900d.jpg Location: - Absolute location is the exact position of an object or place in spatial coordinates or a grid system. Absolute Location of Cameroon: 12ºE, 5ºN - Relative location is the position of a place or activity in relation to other places or activities. Relative Location of Cameroon: Cameroon is located in Central Africa on the Gulf of Guinea. It is bordered by Chad on the north, the Central African Republic on the east, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea to the south and Nigeria to the west. rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12576230 2013-09-05 01:58:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12576230 Site: Site is the physical character of a place, described by local relief, landforms and other physical characteristics. Cameroon is located in Central Africa and has plains in the north, mountains in the northwest, coastal plains in the southwest, rainforests in the south and central sections of the country and plateaus in the center and east. Cameroon is also located on the Gulf of Guinea, a part of the Atlantic Ocean, and has many rivers such as the Sanaga, the Wouri and the Mungo passing through it. The climate is tropical on the coast and south and gets hotter and more arid the further north you go. rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12576335 2013-09-05 02:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12576335 Situation: Situation is the relative location of a place in relation to the physical and cultural characteristics of the larger region or spatial system of which it is a part. Cameroon is south of the Sahel, a region that is becoming drier and less farmable as the years pass and may eventually expand to Cameroon’s north. Cameroon’s location on the Gulf of Guinea has allowed it to easily export goods by boat, particularly to countries such as Spain, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and South Korea. Cameroon’s position on the eastern Atlantic Ocean also allows it to import goods to the country without having to transport them over land, as landlocked African nations have to do. Cameroon is located around the center of Africa, which provides good access to natural resources such as oil, copper, iron ore, rice, wheat, cotton and corn located in nearby African countries. rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12576407 2013-09-05 02:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12576407 Human-Environment Interaction: - Human environment interaction is the relationship between the people and their environment. An example of human-environment interaction in Cameroon is the houses that people build there. Many of them are made out of wood, which humans got from their environment (rainforests). rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12576435 2013-09-05 02:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12576435 Region: - Formal Region: A formal region is an area in which everyone shares in one of more characteristics. Cameroon is in the formal region of Central Africa. - Functional Region: A functional region is an area organized around a node or focal point. An example of a functional region in Cameroon would be the intercity bus services that function from where the company headquarters are (node) to a certain city where the buses turn around and come back (end of the functional region). rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12576453 2013-09-05 02:02:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12576453 Place: - Human attributes of Cameroon include the cities of Yaoundé and Douala, with their office buildings, houses and streets. Other human attributes around the country include the roads and bridges across the landscape. - Physical attributes of Cameroon include Mount Cameroon, the South Cameroon Plateau and the Adamawa Plateau. Other physical attributes include the Ntem, Nyong, Sanaga and Wouri Rivers, as well as a section of Lake Chad that belongs to Cameroon. rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12576567 2013-09-05 02:05:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12576567 Movement: Movement refers to the way people move and the way that information gets from one place to another. In Cameroon, intercity bus services (buses that travel from one city to another) run by private companies are the main form of movement within the country. Few cars travel the country as roads are poorly maintained and robbery is common among these roads. The second-most popular form of movement is through the railroad service called Camrail. Information gets around mostly via telephone, telegraph, television and radio. However, over the past decade there has been a significant increase in the number of people that use cell phones and the Internet. rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12576575 2013-09-05 02:05:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12576575 rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12576921 2013-09-05 02:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12576921 Cartogram of Cameroon: A cartogram is a map that has been simplified to present a single idea in a diagrammatic way; the base is not normally true to scale. This map is telling us where most of the population of Cameroon is located (based on cities). Based on this map, you can see that Yaoundé and Doula are the cities with the largest populations. rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577246 2013-09-05 02:21:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577246 rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577296 2013-09-05 02:22:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577296 Choropleth Map of Cameroon: A choropleth map is a thematic map in which ranked classes of some variable are depicted with shading patterns or colors for predefined zones. This map is showing us the different altitudes of Cameroon, with green being the lowest altitude and white being the highest. rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577319 2013-09-05 02:23:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577319 rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577363 2013-09-05 02:24:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577363 Proportional Symbol Map of Cameroon: (This map is also a choropleth map; however, I am observing the proportional symbol part of the map.) A proportional symbol map is a thematic map in which the size of the symbol varies in proportion to the frequency or intensity of the mapped variable. The symbols on this map represent the amount of people there are per square kilometer, with the smallest dots having the least amount of people per square kilometer and the largest dots having the largest amount of people per square kilometer. rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577391 2013-09-05 02:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577391 rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577437 2013-09-05 02:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577437 http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/international/2013/04/22/inside-africa-cameroon-rainforest-ecosystem-a.cnn&iref=allsearch Link acquired on September 2nd, 2013. rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577497 2013-09-05 02:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577497 Cameroon’s Lobeke National Rainforest, a part of the Congo Basin rainforest, the 2nd largest rainforest in the world, is facing the threat that many rainforests nowadays face - poaching and deforestation. The forest, home to many unique plant and animal species, is also the home to over 150 indigenous groups. The Eco Guard, a group of conservationists and park rangers, are patrolling the forest in efforts to stop the poaching and control logging. The World Wildlife Foundation is doing its best to ensure that companies only cut down trees in designated areas. Hopefully, their efforts will ensure that the forest stays around for a long time. rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577508 2013-09-05 02:28:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577508 This current event relates to Unit 1 in several ways. It is often included in the relative location of Cameroon, as one might say “Cameroon is located in Central Africa in the Congo Basin rainforest.” The Congo Basin rainforest can also be included when describing Cameroon’s site and situation; you can say that Cameroon is partially located on the Congo Basin (site) or that Cameroon is situated on the Congo Basin, where it gets some of its resources from (situation). This article also relates to the unit in that it shows the human-environment interaction in this part of Cameroon. The indigenous tribes preserve the forest and get materials they need from it in order to survive and certain companies in Cameroon cut down the forest for building houses and buildings, or for selling the wood to other countries. The Congo Basin rainforest is also part of the region of Central Africa and is a physical attribute of Cameroon. The rainforest also can be associated with the movement of the people in Cameroon because its denseness impedes much movement of people and the construction of roads in the area. rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577523 2013-09-05 02:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577523 Citations: http://geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/sitesituation.htm Link acquired on September 2nd, 2013. http://geography.about.com/library/cia/blccameroon.htm Link acquired on September 2nd, 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameroon Link acquired on September 2nd, 2013. https://www.google.com/search?q=cameroon+dot+density+map&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&biw=1366&bih=585&bvm=pv.xjs.s.en_US.M4-36_38X9A.O&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=zukkUsDyH6ab2QWUtYDYBA#hl=en&q=cameroon+map&tbm=isch&um=1&facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=8LHWJDNhZ0NztM%3A%3BzptO5fjK3JOlJM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.lonelyplanet.com%252Fmaps%252Fafrica%252Fcameroon%252Fmap_of_cameroon.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.lonelyplanet.com%252Fmaps%252Fafrica%2 Link acquired on September 2nd, 2013. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/cameroon.html Link aquired on September 2nd, 2013 http://geography.mrdonn.org/5themes-definitions.html Link acquired on September 4th, 2013. rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577568 2013-09-05 02:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577568 Yaoundé: Yaoundé is northeast of Kribi, east of Douala and southwest of Mora. Douala: Douala is west of Yaoundé, north of Kribi and southwest of Mora. Mora: Mora is northeast of Yaoundé, northeast of Kribi and northeast of Douala. Kribi: Kribi is southwest of Yaoundé, south of Douala and southwest of Mora. rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577691 2013-09-05 02:33:23 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577691 Distance Between: Yaoundé and Kribi: about 240 miles. Yaoundé and Doula: about 240 miles. Yaoundé and Mora: about 960 miles. Doula and Mora: about 960 miles. Doula and Kribi: about 160 miles. Mora and Kribi: about 1,080 miles. rgmh2 https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577719 2013-09-05 02:33:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rgmh2/qf3bjrz5o2/wish/12577719