1. INTERACTION: Living in the Global Village
Chapter 3

2. Types of Geographic Interaction
Interaction is the influence of people, places, and things on one another.
Is daily
Two different types of Interaction
Area Interaction
Connections people have with their surroundings
Connections between places
Environmental interaction
Influences between people and the environment

3. Environmental Interaction
Types of Interaction
Interaction
Area Interaction
Local
Distant
Environmental Interaction

4. Area Interaction: Local
Global scale
Describes the types of connections made between different places
People, products, and information move between places, they start influencing one another
Fashion trends
Local Scale
Describes how people connect to the places around them, in their community and nieghbourhood
Local plaza
Parklands

5. Local Scale Neighbourhood Community
The region surrounding a person or place
The more we know about our neighbourhood changes the way we think about it
Mental maps – images of places we know
Community
Refers to a place where people live
Can be district, town, or city
Includes neighbourhood but goes beyond
School is in the neighbourhood
Workplace of a family member is farther away

6. Area Interaction - Distant
Involves people moving from place to place and also the exchange of information and products
Because of technology, communication of knowledge and traveling farther made easier
Journey that took days to complete can now be done in a matter of hours
Developments in communication has had the effect of shrinking the distance between places.

7. The Global Village
Accessibility describes how easy or difficult it is to interact with a place.
Bridges make places more accessible
Global Village is the result of improvements to transportation and communications systems.
Worldwide interaction allows us to experience changing trends in music, fashion, and entertainment
Makes us aware of the serious human and environmental problems the world faces

8. Environmental Interaction
People interact with the environment is part of a cause-effect relationship
Climate factors such as temperatures, length of growing season and precipitation helps decide what crops grow in a particular area
Oranges grown in Florida but not in Canada
Wheat grown in Canada but not a common crop in Africa
Relationship between climate and crops
Climate is the cause, crop is the effect

9. Environment Affects People
Environment influences many human activities
Ice hockey is a Canadian sport due to our cold winter temperatures
World class skiers come from mountainous regions such as Austria, Switzerland, and northern Italy
UK developed a strong navy because it is an island and water protects it from invasion
Mountains provide protection from invasion, many countries have mountain ranges as their borders

10. People change the Environment
People change environment to suit their needs
Create indoor environment that allows different activities.
Built ice rinks to enjoy hockey in Florida
People build dams and canals to protect their county from the North sea
Green house to grow tomatoes (cause is the energy used to heat greenhouses and effect is the production of tomatoes)

11. Irrigation Project Gone Wrong
People change environment for better but find out that their effort was negative
Irrigation is a system that takes water from one area and uses it in other areas
Irrigation project in Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan located in desert region of central Asia
Kara Kum Canal carries water from the Amu River to irrigate cotton fields
Irrigation made the dessert nation one of world’s largest producers of cotton

12. Irrigation Project (cont.)
Flow of water from Amu River into Aral Sea reduced
Caused a drop in water level of Aral Sea
Environmentalists fear that Aral Sea is drying up
Become too salty that majority of fish are dead
Causes fish industry in region to collapse
Irrigation project created serious environmental problems
Cause-effect relationships between human actions and their environmental effects were not fully understood