• 335 million in north America

    Highly mobile population- people move from states, houses, ect

    Megalopolis- big cities with millions of people- Washington, new York, Boston: all close together, one close area

    Pull and push forces- like great depression, or good jobs

    Incredibly culturally diverse; people have come from all different areas of the world; different languages, religions, cultures

    1492 Columbus discovered America


    Human activities alter our environment- causing environmental change like Katrina
    Human geo and environmental geo are linked

    Productive- in food, iron, wood, metal, vegetation,

    Abundant energy sources

    Urban City- lots of jobs, space,

    Rural Country- little jobs,

    Changing conditions of rural agriculture- people selling their farms to big corporations ; hard for family farmers

    Europeans showed up and pushed Indians out; made changes

    No big push forces pushing people form Canada and Europe

    The US is a melting pot

    Draw to Wisconsin because of farming opportunities

    We have a variety of natural resources- they're exported to global markets

    We are extremely globalized

    Movies is the number one export