mining relevance to human and natural geography?
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Take a close look at the coal mines of West Virginia! Poor people went to work in the mines and formed whole mining towns. As the mines got bigger the towns literally sank, slid off of mountains, etc.
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The five themes of geography are location, place, interaction between people and their environment, movement and region.\n\nSo I guess a brief summary of each??? \n\nLocation: Two kinds, absolute location (using longitude and latitude to pinpoint an area) and relative location (location in relation to place around it).\n\nPlace: Defined using physical and human characteristics. Physical-landforms, climate, soil and animal life in a place. Human-people's way of life (activities, means of transportation, religion, languages.\n\nInteraction Between People and Their Environment: The changes that people make to their environment. People can also adapt to their environment (example: in lands of  the Artic north, people build homes from ice.)\n\nMovement: Includes movement of people (to find freedom, a better life, because of natural disasters or against their will), movement of goods (trade), and movement of ideas. This leads to interdependence, which is the dependence of countries on goods, resources and knowledge from other parts of the world. \n\nRegion: Definition--an area with its own unifying characteristics. Can be identified by cultural features, political features, economic features or physical characteristics.
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Look at the passages of cultivated nature in the gardens, and the wilder untamed nature. See the contrast of nature to its industrial backdrop -Walter's mining. Is mining natural or unnatural?
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You have to search for each one by commodity and by geographic region.  Here's some links.  I have some other links but they're hard to get.  The best thing to do is to actually make the phone calls.
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search the google for "GEOGRAPHY"
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Enjoy these sites:\nhttp://www.miningjobs.org/Searching/ViewJob.cfm?PostingID=2030\nhttp://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:utAi8aybcYYJ:www.aapg.org/education/vgp/talk_titles.pdf+role+of+geologist+in+a+mining+industry&hl=es&gl=pr&ct=clnk&cd=5\nhttp://technology.infomine.com/miningJobs/welcome.asp?i=minejobs3
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Exploration and discovery
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Sure, why not.  I have a map that tells elevation and is color-coded for the geologic age of the exposed rocks.  That's four dimensions.
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This is the study of earths systems.  It is basically environmental science but geographers like to compare differences among different things and areas.  Environmental geography also studies how humans affect the ENVIRONMENT.
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Try a geograghy book.
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nationalgeographic.com\ndiscovery.com
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Googleearth is excellent.  You can also get a map of your area through www.mapquest.com.
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This is a wonderful activity to develop your exploring skills. I am providing some great website resources that I fully endorse. For easy cache sites a simple inexpensive handheld GPS is okay. I prefer a handheld unit that has mapping capabilities. There are more expensive handheld units that even have color screens, barometric altitude, and digital compass. My pick of choice is the Magellan Meridian-Color USA. There are sites from as near as your back yard to clear across the country. This is an activity that the whole family can get involved in for a small initial investment of one or two GPS units and a pair of two-way radios.
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Dynamic Choropleth Maps are a data visualization tool for spatial analyses.
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the first site talks about forests and minerals. the second is about the economy.
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Hello there,\n\nI'm not quite sure what your question is, but here are some websites with some geography case studies:\n\nhttp://www.seekful.com/indx.cfm?q=Geography%20Case%20Studies\nhttp://www.businesschambers.com/sh.cfm?sq=Geography%20Case%20Studies
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The USGS publishes topographical maps with all mining claims shown.  It takes a lot of them to cover the whole state.