1. Essential Question:
How Do People Interact with their
Environment?

2. Which of the 5 Themes of Geography is
best represented by this image?

3. Which Theme of Geography is best expressed
in each statement? (Don’t copy, just answer)
1. The slave trade brought over 12 million people from
Africa to North and South America
2. The people of North Africa share the religion of
Islam, the language of Arabic, and the geographic
features of the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara
Desert
3. Egypt is located south of the Mediterranean Sea,
west of the Red Sea, north of Sudan, and east of
Libya.
4. The people of Egypt use the Nile River for irrigating
their crops and transportation for trade.

4. Examine the image and list ways that people
interact with the environment
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/air/aqbasics/sources.cfm

5. Examine the image
and list ways that
Human
Environmental
Interaction can
help and harm the
quality of life?
http://www.time.com/time/cover
s/0,16641,19800922,00.html

6. Is this a picture of :
Amsterdam, Netherlands,
Palidski, Estonia or
Abidjan, Ivory Coast

7. The Probo Koala
http://www.tk-group.com/fleet/data/probo/probo_side.htm

8. Global Sludge
Ends in Tragedy
in the Ivory Coast
http://www.theday.com/gbl/media/dyna
mic/lrgimages/1ivory100206.JPG

9. Location: Place: Human Movement: Region:
Absolute Physical Environment Goods Shared
Relative Human Interaction People features of
Ideas Africa or
Europe
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

10. Explain why these people
are wearing protective
equipment? Why did the
chemicals they are
removing end up in
Abidjan?
What is the quality of
life in Abidjan with
mercaptans and caustic
soda in the surrounding
lagoons?
Both photos are from http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,16268,00.html

11. Civic Rights and Responsibilities:
What is a just solution in Abidjan, Ivory
Coast? How would this be handled in the
US? Legally, economically, morally?

12. US + European
trash sent to
African
countries
http://www.relectronics.org/eWaste.html

13. Homework
Write a summary of how Human
Environmental Interaction can better and
worsen the quality of life in Abidjan, Ivory
Coast using the article or how it affects
Hillsborough, NC.
Assists Endangers
1.
2.
3.
4.
(We’ll read some aloud tomorrow)