What's There, Why There, Why Care? by Victoria Marsh

anthony and caleb and dylan and ashton

2018-03-02 15:02:18 UTC

1. Physical Geography shows us how the land we are on formed and came to be. It is important that we know why the land is the way it is so that we can predict the future, like Pangaea or monitoring volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. (whats there, why there) or know where and how to build certain structures for safety and resilience. E.G. Earthquakes, you need to accommodate buildings by adding suspension or other stability accommodations, and making sure its safe. We need to care because people can get injured if these structures are poorly designed. This all starts with knowing about tectonic plates, and location of fault lines.

2. My response includes Patterns and Trends and the importance of them (safety and planning) and Spatial Significance (safety, preparation)

Nicole, Jame, Eatough and Aurora

2018-03-02 15:02:33 UTC

Ex. Fossils proving Pangaea

1. We can use these questions to explain certain geographical phenomenons, and bring up more questions surrounding them.

2. Interrelationships
What where? The matching fossils in West Africa and South America’s East coast
Why there? Pangaea: we believe the two continents were interconnected at one point
Why care? How can we use this knowledge to explain how our Earth works, and how things came to be the way they are now.

Yalda, Elise, Olivia, Mahima

2018-03-02 15:02:40 UTC

Natural Disasters 
Interrelationships - Question #3

Natural disasters are horrid. Contributing immensely to environmental damage and loss of life, they are indisputably one of the single greatest threats to our planet’s natural characteristics and processes, as well as human activities.
Natural disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes; to name a few, impact our society and environment far more than we could ever come to acknowledge. For instance, the extreme tides of a severe tsunami impacts human and wildlife communities alike; inflicting great damage upon human homes and infrastructure, not to mention the natural habitats made home to all kinds of populations of wildlife.

In conclusion, the impact of natural disasters on our way of life is incredibly significant. By interfering with human activities and developments, and natural processes amongst wildlife; such as hunting and reproduction, natural disasters prove to us that all while nature is fascinating, it has a destructive capability in which we, as it’s inhabitants, must continue to remain aware of.

Pictured below, an image showing the 10 metre tides of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Tōhoku, Japan.

Carter Lee and Bofa(Jeffery)

2018-03-02 15:03:28 UTC

Whats There:
In South America and in Africa, there are the same types of fossils and bones
Why There:
because the plates moved and they used to be attached. And now they are separate.
Why Care:
We should care because the plates are still moving and we should be able to predict what happens next.

Callan, Hannah, Vivian & Kevin

1robinsoncal — 2018-03-02 15:06:44 UTC

What is Where?

Fiona & Hayden

2018-03-02 15:07:28 UTC

1. Topic: Ring of Fire
What's there?
The ring of fire is an area in the Pacific Ocean where many earthquakes and volcanos erupt.
Why there?
The ring of fire is there because that is a location of where a fault line is, where the tectonic plates are.
Why care?

2. We can connect physical geography to spacial significance because physical geography studies landforms and the geological study of the earth, allowing us to understand important and unique characteristics of a location.

Caitlin, Alina & Arisa

2018-03-02 15:08:52 UTC

Topic: Pangea
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
1. What's there?
Pangea was one super continent that was all of our continents we know today that were connected together.
Why there?
Plate tectonics holding the continents together to become Pangea. Plate tectonics are always moving and thats why they came together and separated.
Why care?
Plate tectonics are still moving and our continents may possibly move to become a Pangea. Therefore, we need to understand how plate tectonics work for the future of our world.

2. Patterns and Trends:
Earth Quakes were found on the coasts of continents near the water.
What is where? Earth quakes near the water and occur relatively often in the world in different countries

Caitlin, Arisa and Alina Q1 Summary

2018-03-02 15:11:02 UTC

The questions can lead us to a greater understanding of the land around us. Our knowledge of physical geography can help human beings adapt to our surroundings.

Luke Ryan Josh

2018-03-02 15:12:49 UTC

We can connect these key points of questioning to physical geography by using our knowledge on the subject to reason a logical explanation to why and how the events caused or going to cause will affect the land in and around it. With the study of physical geography, the theme of “What’s there”, “Why there”, “Why care” can have a specific emphasis on certain aspects of topics and can help us gain an enriched understanding of the topic/issue at hand. “What's there” talks about what exactly is there in the current state (A mountain is on the coast). “Why there” talks about why exactly the thing that is there is there (A mountain could be formed from collision of plate tectonics). “Why care” talks about why we should pay attention to, understand, and learn from the topic/issue (From this mountain, we can gain a better understanding of plate tectonics and could be beneficial to understanding other phenomena)

As stated before, we can use our knowledge of the workings of landforms on Earth to get a better understanding for what is best for the future. Patterns and trends are very prominent in physical geography. Many of the characteristics or movements are predictable based on what we know, and we can use this to identify the importance of their repetitiveness and how it will affect us.

$hayan, Chis, Shahryar

2018-03-03 03:44:42 UTC

1. What's There, Why There, and Why care are all questions you must answer to be able to successfully have studied the physical geography of a location. These three questions can be seen as the basis for all questions made regarding the studied location, and are fundamental in getting a basic grasp of the site and situation, and the processes that are occurring, have occurred, and also possibly will occur.

2. In my response, I have included Spacial Significance because it heavily ties into how we can understand, see, and act according to the physical geography around us.