Guided Reading Chapter One, Part Two
This is Geography
Instructions: Read the text starting on page 18 and write your answers on notebook paper. You may
continue on from the last guided reading or start a new page.
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List five countries in which McDonald’s has 1000 or more restaurants.
List five countries in which there are no McDonald’s restaurants.
Look at the three neighborhoods on page 20. Describe the density of each neighborhood.
After more Americans migrated to the west coast, MLB teams had to move locations because
there was a concentration of them in the northeast. List five teams that had to move and their
before/after locations. List five new teams that were created and their locations.
Explain the following:
a. Poststructuralist geography
b. Humanistic geography
c. Behavioral geography
Compare and contrast the movement of people based on gender. How does a husband move
geographically compared to a wife?
How is relocation diffusion different from expansion diffusion?
Define and give an example of the following:
a. relocation diffusion
b. hierarchical diffusion
c. contagious diffusion
d. stimulus diffusion
True/False. Interactions among people increase the further away they are.
What is space-time compression? This has improved with technology.
a. How long did it take in 1492 for Christopher Columbus to sail across the Atlantic Ocean?
b. How long did it take in 1927 for Charles Lindbergh to fly across the Atlantic Ocean?
c. How long did it take in 1962 for John Glenn in space to cross the Atlantic Ocean?
What are the three pillars of sustainability? Explain each.
Explain the four Earth systems and draw a picture for each:
a. atmosphere
b. hydrosphere
c. lithosphere
d. biosphere
Why two types of human-environment interactions are geographers interested in?
Explain how the Dutch modified their environment.
Explain how South Florida modified their environment.