The document provides an overview of Latin America, covering its historic development, physical geography, climate, ecosystems, people and cultures, economics, and key data points. It describes how advanced civilizations like the Aztecs, Mayas and Incas influenced the region. It was later colonized by European powers and developed a diverse cultural and ethnic identity. The physical geography is characterized by mountain ranges and large lowland areas. Tropical climates dominate much of the region. Ecosystems include rainforests, grasslands and deserts. The people and economies are closely tied to agriculture, mining and oil, though economies are becoming more diversified.
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Module 4 Overview
The America’s Realms and Regions
This module will focus on the realms and regions of the Americas. You will begin by learning about the topography of the Americas. The historical geography of the Americas will be explained. You will compare and contrast the political geography of the Americas with the rest of the world’s political systems. In addition, the economical geography of the Americas will be reviewed along with the diverse religions. Lastly, you will evaluate the cultural geography of the Americas in relation to the rest of the world.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:
2D
identify the landform regions, climates, and major lakes and rivers of North America.
2E
illustrate the basic historical geography of the settlement along with the economic and parallel urban geography of the U.S. and Canada for the past three centuries.
2F
describe Canada’s provinces and territories, English-French cultural division, and the indigenous people’s movement.
2G
describe Middle America’s major environmental features and dangers as well as the vertical organization of climates in highland zones.
2H
discuss the basic human and physical geography of Mexico and its development opportunities in the NAFTA era.
2I
describe the general layout of the Caribbean Islands.
3D
examine the broad aspects of South America’s Historical Geography from the time of the Incas to the post colonial era.
5F
evaluate the features that make the Core region of North America so prominent.
5G
describe the growth of the Southeast and discuss the effect of Anglo, Hispanic and Native American cultures on the Southwest region.
5H
identify reasons why the Western Frontier is the fastest growing region and discuss why the Northern Frontier is considered a true “frontier.”
6A
interpret the realm’s cultural mosaic, agricultural and industrial activities, general patterns of urbanization, and challenges and opportunities.
6B
evaluate the basic environmental, historical, cultural, political, economic, physical, and human geography of South America.
Module 4 Reading Assignment
de Blij, H. J., & Muller, P. O. (2012). Geography: Realms, regions, and concepts (15th ed.). New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. Chapters3A, 3B, 4A, 4B, 5A, and 5B.
The America's Realms and Regions
For this module, the Americas will be known as North America comprised of the countries of Canada and the United States, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. In the geography literature, Central and South America are often referred to as Latin America. Sometimes Central America can be referred to as Middle America as well, and also includes Mexico. Please be sure to view an animated video of the Geography of the Americas Animation.
Topography of the Americas
North America is surrounded by the Arctic Ocean to the extreme north, Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea to the south, and Pacific Ocean to the west. The ...
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1. Definitely, the human and physical geography of the Middle and South America region would have been different if the European colonists would have visited with a different frame of mind. Regarding the human geography, there would be more indigenous people in this region. Due to the conquest minded Europeans, many of the indigenous populations were wiped out including those in Costa Rica and Peru. Further, the human geography would be different because there would be equality among the indigenous and foreign people. The entry of Europeans led to the creation of class as the Europeans took up the larger part of the wealth living the indigenous people to live in poverty. Lastly, the physical geography would be different in terms of less environmental degradation brought about by Europeans.
2. The diverse landforms in Middle and South America have been shaped by tectonic processes. For instance, the Central Andes comprises of an expansive collection of mountain ranges and plateaus making up for up to seventy percent of the world’s tropical glaziers. The region also boasts of the pampas, found in Argentina and Uruguay, which is an expansive grasslands comprised of fertile soils, which once supported the agricultural economy of the region. Further, the regions also has the largest tropical forests on the universe called the Amazon forest. The regions also has the large Atacama desert; and the Brazilian and Guiana Highlands.
3. The first impressive location is Costa Rica. This is because the country has made great strides in developing human capital in terms of developing schools, healthcare, infrastructure and other social services. Further, the country has also been on the forefront of environmental conservation by encouraging ecotourism and creating wetland parks. On the issue of equality,the impressive location was Ecuador. The electorate wanted to lessen inequalities in Ecuador, so they elected Rafael Correa, a president who imposed high taxes for the rich and encouraged a substantial government expenditure directed at lessening social problems.
4. The oil resources in Venezuela could have benefited the entire nation were it not for colonization. Up to the 1990s, sixty-three percent of the wealth of the nation was held by people of the European decent leaving the indigenous people in poverty, with low income and inadequate education, transportation and healthcare infrastructures. This has been reflected in the modern Venezuela, as only a few people are wealthy while the rest live in shantytowns in abject poverty with lack of resources such as clean drinking water, education, transport and sanitation. Another notable colonization effects was Bolivia whose European colonizers made fortunes at the expense of the indigenous Mestizos who lived in poverty and worked on large haciendas. This led to the constant fights ...
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Northern America and Latin America
Different Regional geography may imply similarity or even differences in various aspects such as regional physical landscape, economy, geopolitics, and development population and culture. On a general view, North America and Latin American regions presents considerable similarities yet appears different from one another in some way. Considering Latin America, The region lies in the American plate which host the highest waterfalls such as the Angel water falls in the Venezuela, the Kaieteur falls located in Guyana, the world’s largest river, the Amazon River, world’s historically the most elongated ranges called the Andes as well as incomparably high mountains such as the Aconcagua which is about 6,962 and vast tracks of rainforests as well as the largest highly navigable lake globally named Lake Titicaca. These features are for many years been uninterrupted (Rumley, & Minghi, 2014).
North American region’s physical geography; the northern sub-region is covered by the American Cordillera which is marked by the new rocky mountains in the western portion as well as Appalachian Mountains in the east side while its highest peak the Denali only stands at 6194 meters considerably less compared to the highest in Latin America; the Aconcagua (Rumley, & Minghi,2014). North is covered by many glacial lakes such as the great lakes. Most of its watersheds pour in the east that is the Mississippi alongside Rio Grande drain in the Gulf of Mexico while St. Laurence pours its water into the Atlantic Ocean.
In regards to geophysical factors, Latin American has more physical resources than the North America. Physical factors considerably influence region’s economy. For instance; Latin America has several varying enormous biomes which make it host sub-regions with relatively same climate (Badia-Miró, Carreras-Marín & Meissner, 2014). More than eighty percent of Latin American is located in the tropical and subtropical. Also controlled by low pressure, Latin American has Amazon Jungle, which is the biggest rainforest in the world. In addition, most of the Latin American region is located in the south of the equator, so the season is just opposite with North American.
These features make the Latin America very diversified in terms of plants and animals compared to the North America, which is only proud of the old Rockies, especially the Appalachia, and the great lakes and a few other physical features. Economically, the Latin America has more minerals that range from gold, copper, iron ore, petroleum, and tin to silver. These resources have been the greatest source of income to the Latin America remarkably in times of war and/or rapid econom.
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