Human Geo

Today we started class a little late because a girl had trouble with her blog and you had to help. After you helped her we finished up the notes about site.  You told us about really cool thing they did in Manhattan.  Turns out Manhattan has gotten 2 times bigger since 1626.  They are making it bigger by filling up parts of the river, which I find amazing.
Next we did Situation.  Situation it is the location of a place relative to other places.  It is a valuable way to indicate location, for 2 reasons, finding unfamiliar places/understanding its importances. 2nd situation helps us understand the importance location.  After that you told us about the flooding in Texas and why the sewers were not able to drain it.  You told us that if people just kept building thing were thing like corn fields and farm land would be there would be problems.  The land helps absorb the water so that bad flooding wouldn't happen but we do things like cover up the land with cement and houses so it can't do that anymore.  So then all the water hitting the road goes in the sewer and all the other water that was suppose to be absorb by the land is all trying to fit in the drain but then it stopped working.  That is why the flooding is so bad.

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