🌎 Activity 8: Human Settlement and Geography in the United States

Activity 8 - Evaluate: Human Settlement and Geography in the United States  

Learning Objective: I will be able to use a map to describe the relationship between the U.S. population and the physical geography .

• Click the link Exploring Communities and Geography Links to an external site..  You will need to log in to safari montage to watch the movie about different kinds of communities in different kids of Geography.  
• After you read the story, compare the following maps. One map shows the U.S. population. The other map shows the U.S. geography.
• What do you notice?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Population_Density.svg   Links to an external site.https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_map_-_geographic.png Links to an external site. Links to an external site.

Instructions:

• Click on the "Submit Assignment" button (upper right hand side). Complete the following writing assignment. 
• In 2-3 sentences describe the relationship between the U.S. population map and the U.S. geography map. 
• Use the following questions to help you describe the relationships:
  • What types of natural features are near the areas with high population numbers?

• • What types of natural features are near the areas with low population numbers?

Guidelines 

• Please make sure that you use your best spelling, grammar, and punctuation when you write your post. Start with a capital letter and use punctuation at the end of sentences.