Infrastructure

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

Type Explanation Examples

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Infrastructure Data Sheet

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

What would you do?

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.

Other types of infrastructure

7. Airports- Come up with

your own explanation and example.

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 =

Physiographic Regions

• A group of places with similar physical characteristics.