During Humanities classes these past few days we've been working on Mapping Projects in groups of 2. Firstly, we had to draw climate and Elevation maps of India. Maria and I colored in the two maps, and moved on to making elevation clay maps. When we’ve done that, we were assigned to answer the following questions:
Physical features, climate and elevation all relate to each other in many different ways. Firstly, elevation is related to climate because the higher the surface area of a place is, the more it will affect the climate of the place. The physical features will obviously have an effect on the climate and elevation of an area; if it is a mountainous area it will have a high elevation, if it was a rain-forest the climate would be tropical. They are all inter- connecting, because one of them can cause another to change.
2. What conclusions can you draw?
The climate, elevation and physical features have an influence on where humans settle. The main thing about all these things that humans look for is practicality, are there resources nearby? How can certain features be beneficial? Is it safe? Things like climate influences where people settle because we don’t want to settle in a a hot place where water is scarce, and yet neither do we want to settle in a extremely cold place where food is hard to farm. We look at elevation and include things in such as; Is this terrain of the side of the mountain where it will be hard to grow crops and build a house? Also physical features; Physical features can mean resources if they are the important kind. Things such as the river give water to humans who settle there, whereas as people who settle in the desert, the physical features are not as important.
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