GEO 200 Milestone 1
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Alexandria Flowers
GEO-200 Milestone One
Identify Your Current Region:
coastal Southeastern region of the United States.
Map of Current Global Region: Provide a map of your current region. In the box below you may provide a
link to your map, insert an image, or make note that you are submitting an additional file with this worksheet. Include a citation to give credit to the resource from which you are obtaining your
image.
(SCDNR Regions)
Location of Current Global Region: Discuss where your current region is located, addressing the absolute and relative location of the region. Include
citations for your resources using APA style guidelines as needed.
The absolute loctation of Sumter SC is 33.9204° N, 80.3415° W. Sumter is 100 miles west of Myrtle Beach's Grand Strand and 175 miles east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. (Map 2) Characteristics of Current Global Region: Explain what key sociocultural (human) and physical characteristics define this as a region. Include citations for your resources using APA style guidelines as needed
Shaw Air Force Base is located in Sumter, a city with a long history in agriculture. (About Sumter County) One of the physical characteristics of South Carolina is the Appalachian Mountains. Sumter is near the Santee River. Sumter also has Point Set Park. Interactions of Current Global Region: How have humans and the environment interacted to produce observable landscapes in your current region?
Include citations for your resources using APA style guidelines as needed.
The center of it all is Sumter, the eighth-largest city in South Carolina. We have many acres of Nation Forest and parks.
Alexandria Flowers
GEO-200 Milestone One
Identify Your New Global Region:
Wyoming
Map of New Global Region: Provide a map of the new region you will be moving to. In the box below, you may provide a link to your map, insert an
image, or make note that you are submitting an additional file with this worksheet. Include a citation to give credit to the resource from which you are
obtaining your image
(Game officials restrict shed antler hunting)
Location of New Global Region: Discuss where the new region is located, addressing the absolute and relative location of the region you will be
moving to. Include citations for your resources using APA style guidelines as needed
Wyoming absolute location is 43.0760° N, 107.2903° W. Wyoming borders Montana to the north, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Colorado and Utah in the south and Idaho in the west. (Map of Wyoming (WY))
Characteristics of New Global Region: Explain what key sociocultural (human) and physical characteristics define this as a region. Include citations for
your resources using APA style guidelines as needed.
Wyoming is predominantly Christian and Protestant. Wyoming is renowned for its rich indigenous folklore, breathtaking natural surroundings, and magnificent National Parks. Wyoming is where the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains collide and meet. Interactions of New Global Region: How have humans and the environment interacted to produce observable landscapes in the new region
you will
be moving to? Include citations for your resources
using APA style guidelines as needed.
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Humans have turned one of the world’s super volcanos into a national park its called Yellowstone. Similarities: Based on the physical and sociocultural (human) characteristics you have described, what are the major similarities The similarities are the nation parks and forest. Also for human similarities are religion such as Christianity
Alexandria Flowers
GEO-200 Milestone One
between your current
and new region?
Differences: Based on the physical and sociocultural (human) characteristics you have described, what are the major differences between your current
and new region?
Major difference are that Wyoming is home to a super volcano Yellowstone. Wyoming is also a bigger state overall. References
About Sumter County.
(n.d.). Retrieved from Sumter County South Carolina: https://www.sumtercountysc.org/about/about_us/about_sumter_county.php
Game officials restrict shed antler hunting.
(n.d.). Retrieved from PostIndependent: https://www.postindependent.com/rifle/game-officials-restrict-shed-antler-hunting-2/
Map 2.
(n.d.). Retrieved from South Carolina's Geographuc Regions: https://s3.amazonaws.com/sc_pdf/ch_2_1.pdf
Map of Wyoming (WY).
(n.d.). Retrieved from nation online: https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/USA/wyoming_map.htm#:~:text=Wyoming%20is
%20one%20of%20the,and%20Idaho%20in%20the%20west.
SCDNR Regions.
(n.d.). Retrieved from Life's Better Outdoors South Carolina Department of Natural Resources: https://www.dnr.sc.gov/admin/regions.html
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