2 GEO 200 Milestone One Worksheet Guidelines and Rubric 2, S. Jordan

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GEO 200 Milestone One Worksheet Guidelines and Rubric Overview: This milestone activity is the first of two specific milestones that will build toward your complete final project for the course. For this milestone activity, you will submit this completed worksheet, in which you will address the elements below regarding your current and new global regions. See the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document for detailed information about this scenario. These responses will contribute to the speaker notes transcript that you will create to accompany your final project presentation. Prompt: For this assignment, complete the following steps: 1. Download this document. 2. Review the Milestone One Rubric (below the worksheet). 3. Complete Parts I through III below, which address the following critical elements: I. Provide a map of your current global region and describe its location, sociocultural (human) and physical characteristics, and interactions . II. Provide a map of your new global region and describe its location, sociocultural (human) and physical characteristics, and interactions . III. Compare the similarities and differences between your current and new region based on their physical and sociocultural (human) characteristics. 4. Once you have completed the worksheet, upload your saved worksheet file along with any additional map image files and submit this milestone assignment. Note : Refer to your module resources and the Themes of Geography resource, as well as additional resources you identify, for information to help you answer the questions below. Remember that you will need to have at least five sources in current APA style for your citations and references list in the final project submission. Note that each question of your worksheet has you track your citations. This is so you will not need to go back and figure out where you grabbed a resource from when you submit your final slides. You will be able to use these worksheets to copy and paste your citation list into your last slide. In some instances, you may have used the same resource more than once, which is why your list may be as small as five resources. Before starting this activity, review Milestone One Worksheet Student Example document within the Student Example Folder. Part I: Current Global Region 1. Identify Your Current Region: Southeastern Region of the United States 2. 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. 1

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3. 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. Relative location of the Southeastern Region is between the Atlantic ocean and the Western United States, with the Midwestern and Northeastern United States to its North and the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico to its South. ( http://wikipedia.org ) Absolute location of The Southeastern Region is; N63 degrees 57’ 37.3932” W143 degrees 37’ 46.92” (https://findlatitudeandlongitude.com) 4. 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. Southerners are easy to recognize from other Americans by their speech, both in terms of accent and idiom. Although there is no single "Southern Accent." Part of the South is known as the " Bible Belt ", because of the prevalence there of evangelical Protestantism, they take their religion very serious. The Southeast region is more conservative in their political beliefs. Tobacco was an economic staple at one time in history in the Southeastern region. A lot of southerners smoke tobacco. Southerners prefer country music and love to dance. Sports, especially football, it is almost a religion to them. Fried food is considered normal for a southerner and preferred. Some of the local food ranges from Mexican dishes to barbeque, cornbread and Cajun. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/culture-of-the-southern-United States) The Southeast has two very different types of landforms: highlands and lowlands. The states in the northern part of the region have hills and mountains, plateaus, and valleys, whereas the states in the southern part of the region have beaches, wetlands, and swamps. The Southeast also has two coasts: one along the Atlantic Ocean and the other along the Gulf of Mexico. Many rivers flow through the Southeast, including the Mississippi River, which is the second longest river in North America. (https://www.storyboardthat.com/lesson-plans/us-regions-southeast) 5. 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. People want to preserve their heritage and hope it remains for future generations. The natural and cultural diversity across the southeastern United States provides for a rich array of resources – from the former sugar fields of Virgin Islands National Park, to live oak at Cane River Creole National Historic Site, to the spruce-fir ecosystems of the Great Smokies, to the modern design of the Mission 66 projects at Everglades National Park. Southeast cultural landscapes may be as small as the 0.2-acre William Johnson House property at Natchez National Historical Park in Mississippi, as long as the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia and North Carolina, or as vast as the 125,000-acre Big South Fork Rural Historic District in Tennessee. The southeastern United States is Known for a number of Civil War sites, other sites represent the history of the revolutionary War , Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, and the Cold War. The Southeast is also home to preserved plantations, mountain farmsteads, and the homes of poets and tycoons. To nature parks and historic Native American (protected) mounds and artifacts. (https://www.nps.gov/subjects/culturallandscapes/ser.htm) 4

Part II: New Global Region 1. Identify Your New Global Region: Northeastern Region of the United States 2. 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. www.freeworldmaps.net 3. Location of New Global Region: Discuss where the new region is located, addressing the absolute and relative location of the region you will be 5

moving to. Include citations for your resources using APA style guidelines as needed. Relative location: The Northeastern United States , is a geographic region of the United States located on the Atlantic coast of North America, with Canada to its north, the Southern United States to its south, and the Midwestern United States to its west. (https://www.en.wikipedia.org/Northeastern-United-States) Absolute location: 42°N 73°W (https:www.en.wikipedia.org/Northeastern-United-States 4. 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. The Northeast is a diverse region. People from many European American backgrounds live in the Northeast, although white northeasterners frequently identify with their ethnic background more strongly than do U.S. born whites from other U.S. regions. In Massachusetts, fishing and seafaring as a major source of its economic strength. The rocky landscape varies from coast of New England to the farmlands of the Ohio River Valley. Cliffs rise up to hundreds of feet above the ocean on Maine's northern coast; south of the state's West Quoddy Head Peninsula, the easternmost point in the United States, the coastline subsides to sandy beaches that extend along the rest of the Northeast. (https:// www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Northeastern-United-States ) There are four major rivers pierce the coastline to empty into the Atlantic coastline. Between Cape Cod in Massachusetts and Cape May in New Jersey are a series of large islands, including Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, Block Island, Long Island, Manhattan, and Staten Island. (https://www.britannica.com/video/72913/climate-waterways-landscape). 5. 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. There are trees that a colonial settler would have encountered 400 years ago. Some of these original trees were documented as “witness” trees by people living in those times. The trees are much the same as in pre-colonial days. Maples have exploded across the Northeast, their numbers increasing by more than 20 percent in most towns. Pine numbers have shifted more than any other tree type, increasing in some places, decreasing elsewhere. Pine is valuable and economic for timber, but quick to return after cutting and replanting by local companies or forestry service. It has a social and environmental strength to it. (https:www.phy.org/news/2013-09-northeastern-forest-human-years.html The cultural resources of the region are also temporally diverse, from the site of the 1604 French Settlement at St. Croix Island in Maine to the first event of the 21st century to be commemorated by the National Park Service - the Flight 93 crash site in Pennsylvania. There are properties akin with people and battles significant to the founding of America and the period of the Civil War that are preserved by the community. From the homes of presidents, artists, literary figures, and social leaders. Other sites document events related to industry, commerce, invention, and maritime activities. Properties with land conservation, working landscapes, and landscape design provide evidence of their owner's vision. 9https://www.nps.gov/subjects/culturalandscapes/ner.htm 6

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Part III: Comparison of Similarities and Differences 1. Similarities: Based on the physical and sociocultural (human) characteristics you have described, what are the major similarities between your current and new region? Conservation, historic preservation. Protecting our forest and environment. There are trees in the South that are hundreds of years old and are being protected as in the North. Being conscious that our environment is a gift to preserve for the next generation. By planting trees for oxygen, making monuments and historic places sustainable. Leaving a legacy. Our founding Fathers left these traces for us in the Southeastern Region as in the Northeastern Region. Concern over environment issues arises because it is thought that the population may increase to a level whose needs cannot be adequately met by earth’s natural resources resulting in fall in living standards of the people, although when these issues arise in the South people become aware just as they do in the North and rally to find a solution. These are the few similarities to compare. (https:www.Yourarticlelibrary.com/economics/relationship-between-environment-and-economic-growth) 2. Differences: Based on the physical and sociocultural (human) characteristics you have described, what are the major differences between your current and new region? Slavery reminders. The South has been oppressed for some generations. No environment could long survive intensive slave labor. (Silkenat, D. (2022) Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South. Oxford Academic Books). There are fewer Metro areas, building is on smaller scales. Possibly the biggest and most polarizing difference between the Northern and Southern Regions is the swampy, hot, humid areas. You cannot build or change these areas without devastating the ecosystem and devastating the wildlife that live in these areas. Language and dialect is very different, many varied southern accents. There are more factories in the North than in the South. This has had a economic decline some areas in the South. (S. Jordan) Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your response to each question in the worksheet should describe the region you have selected in detail. Write 2 to 3 complete sentences per response in your own words. (You may paraphrase information from the learning resources, but do not directly quote or copy and paste text.) Be sure to include citations for your resources using APA style guidelines. Once you have completed the worksheet, upload and submit your saved worksheet file to Brightspace to finish this milestone assignment. Critical Elements Attempted With Minimal or No Functional Issues (100%) Attempted With Key Functional Issues (75%) Was Not Evident in Submission (0%) Value 7

Map of Current Region Identifies a map of the current global region Does not identify a map of the current global region 5 Location of Current Region Discusses the location characteristics of the current region Discusses the location characteristics of the current region, but discussion lacks detail or clarity Does not discuss location characteristics of the current region 12 Sociocultural (Human) and Physical Characteristics of Current Location Explains the sociocultural (human) and physical characteristics that define the current region Explains the sociocultural (human) and physical characteristics that define the current region, but explanation lacks detail or clarity Does not explain the sociocultural (human) and physical characteristics that define the current region 12 Interactions of Current Region Describes how humans and the environment have interacted to produce observable landscapes in the current region Describes how humans and the environment have interacted to produce observable landscapes in the current region, but description lacks detail or clarity Does not describe how humans and the environment have interacted to produce observable landscapes in the current region 12 Map of New Region Identifies a map of the new global region Does not identify a map of the new global region 5 Location of New Region Discusses the location characteristics of the new region Discusses the location characteristics of the new region, but discussion lacks detail or clarity Does not discuss the location characteristics of the new region 12 Sociocultural (Human) and Physical Characteristics of New Location Explains the sociocultural (human) and physical characteristics that define the new region Explains the sociocultural (human) and physical characteristics that define the new region, but explanation lacks detail or clarity Does not explain the sociocultural (human) and physical characteristics that define the new region 12 Interactions of New Region Describes how humans and the environment have interacted to produce observable landscapes in the new region Describes how humans and the environment have interacted to produce observable landscapes in the new region, but description lacks detail or clarity Does not describe how humans and the environment have interacted to produce observable landscapes in the new region 12 Similarities and Differences Compares the similarities and differences between the current and new regions Compares the similarities and differences between the current and new regions, but comparison lacks detail or clarity Does not compare the similarities and differences between the current and new regions 12 Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas 6 Total 100% 8