Post on 29-Dec-2015
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Table of Contents
Date Title Lesson #
10/14 Immigration - Economic 24
10/15 Migration 25
10/16 Urban Sprawl 26
10/19 Push Factors for Migration 27
10/20 Infrastructure 28
Directions: Make a fresh page titled “Infrastructure”
Background
You are the CEO of Nike. Your job is to create a trading plan for regional trade and global trade.
Key Questions:
1. What kind of infrastructure is best for regional trade? Global trade?
2. Will you need multiple types of infrastructure to conduct trade regionally? Globally?
3. How do goods go from secondary levels of economic activity to the tertiary level?
READ ONLY
• Global Trade Trade with other countries.
– I bought shoes at the mall that were manufactured in the Dominican Republic.
• Regional Trade Trade in the United States.
– I bought fruit that was grown in California at Kroger.
Sanitation Services
Transportation
Education
Infrastructure – The basic support systems needed to help an economy function
Infrastructure
• Sketch or write real-life examples for the three other things required to keep an economy going…
1. Power
2. Communications (Internet, Phones)
3. Water services
1. Ports• Explanation - Ports provide shipping routes for imports and
exports.• Examples: Houston, Philadelphia, San Francisco
Ports near New York City
2. Railroads• Explanation - Railroads provide bulk
transportation from region to region.
Example: Transporting cattle from Houston to Dallas by rail. Then from Dallas to Chicago by rail.
DALLAS
CHICAGO
3. Interstate Highway System• Explanation - Highways provide ground
shipping.
Task Write or sketch a real-life example of ground shipping.
4. Communication
- Examples Internet, Cell phones
- Explanation - How can businesses use these tools for global trade?
5. Bridges
Background:
There are three major ports on the Chesapeake Bay near Virginia and Maryland on the Atlantic Coastal Plains.
- Norfolk, Virginia
- Washington DC (capital of the US)
- Baltimore, MarylandChesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel
– A construction project in Virginia where they built a tunnel under the Chesapeake Bay to allow large cargo ships and cars to travel over the same area.
Bridges Clip
Clip Questions:
1. How does the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel help regional trade?
2. How does it help global trade?
Directions:
- Add your own explanation and example for #5. Bridges
6. St. Lawrence Seaway• Explanation - Major shipping route on the US and Canada
border.
• Led to development of major cities because of trade and jobs.
Closure
1. Answer the Question of the Day on your warm-up page like normal.
2. Turn in your assignment on the way out if you are finished, if not take it home..
Assignment Help
Hint Don’t confuse infrastructure with type of transportation.
Infrastructure = Airports
Mode of transportation =
Infrastructure = Highways
Mode of transportation =