GEO/155 GEO155 GEO 155 WEEK 1 Get to Know Your Community Worksheet

GEO 155 WEEK 1 Get to Know Your Community Worksheet

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Get to Know Your Community Worksheet

Select a community with which you are familiar, such as your hometown, city, or county. Research your community, noting its physical geography, demographics, population, and history. Answer the questions about your community below in complete sentences.

Name of your community:

What are the physical features of your community? Research this question by looking at maps that indicate the geographic features of your community. What did you learn about the physical geography of your community that surprised you?

Why did your community develop in the first place? Why do people live there? What physical characteristics of the natural landscape contributed to the population growth of your community?

How many people are in your community? Has this number increased or decreased in the last twenty years?

What factors caused people to migrate to your community in the past? What are current factors causing people to migrate to your community?

Who are the people in your community? What racial or ethnic groups are present? What other demographic information can you find about the people in your community?

Locate a map illustrating the spread of a virus in your community. How is this type of information useful to you?  

Include references for all of your information in this worksheet.