What are some examples of the five themes of geography for Peru?
Movement - travel of people, goods and ideas from one location to another or political events. such as the Pan American Highway, Callao port, river transport, Peru media newspapers, TV Place - specific physical, animal, human landscaping, language characteristics unique to Peru. Andes Mountains, the ancient stone fortress city of Machu Picchu, Inca culture Region- Unifying physical, human or cultural characteristics such as mountain ranges and enviromental adaptations...Peru is an equatorial country with a tropical climate. However it also includes the costa (coastal), the sierra (highlands) and the selva (jungle i.e. Amazon rainforest) climate zones which each will have unique animals and plants.. Location - Peru, a country in western South America.neighbors Ecuador and Colombia to the north, Brazil to the east, Bolivia to the southeast, Chile to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.The capital of Peru is Lima. Human-environment interaction- Logging and petroleum industry, Air and water pollution from large cities, El Nino weather affecting residents and fishing industry.
How did the Europeans change the human and physical geography of South America?
they destroyed the Inca empire, spread disease and their languages, they imported people from Europe Africa and India, and physically changes they started rubber , coffee and sugar plantations
What is Peru's physical regions?
Peru's territory has an area of 1,285,216 km². It is bordered by Ecuador and Colombia on the north, Brazil and Bolivia to the east, and finally Chile and Bolivia to the south. To the west lies the Pacific Ocean. Its population has more than 24 millions of inhabitants that speak Spanish, quechua, aimara and others native languages. Eastern Peru consists mostly of the moist tropical jungles of the Amazon Rain Forest, the largest on Earth. In the southeast along the border with Bolivia lies Lake Titicaca — the highest navigable lake in the world. The Altiplano plateau is a dry basin located along the slopes of the Andes in southeastern Peru. Along the border with Chile, the Atacama Desert is the driest place on the planet. The Peruvian Sea is home to a large amount and variety of fish life. The Sechura Desert is located in northwestern Peru along the Pacific coastline. The main rivers of Peru include the Ucayali, Marañón, Amazon (which is formed by the confluence of the Marañón and the Ucayali), Putumayo, Pastaza, Napo, Jurua, and the Purus. Peru is divided in 24 departments and one constitutional province. The largest main cities include: Lima (the capital and the economic and cultural centre) Arequipa Trujillo Chiclayo Callao (the contitutional province) Cusco (the capital of the ancient Inca Empire) Piura, Chimbote, Huancayo, Pucallpa, Cajamarca, and Iquitos.
Why did ancient civilizations develop in river valleys?
River valleys not only have water, they also often have a broad, flat floodplain that is readily adapted to agriculture. Even the earliest, least sophisticated agricultural techniques would have been effective in yielding a significant bounty of crops from the naturally-irrigated and fertile soil of a river valley.All the river valleys were civilizations have originated — Mesopotamia (the valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates), the Nile, the Indus, the Yellow River, the Rio Balsas — have been geographically located in tropical or sub-tropical latitudes. Thus there was not only plenty of water from these rivers, but also plenty of sunshine. Often the land beyond these river valleys was utterly barren, as in Egypt with the Nile Valley: beyond the immediate flood plain of the Nile, the hills are barren and no agriculture is possible at all.The Nile had the most dependable annual flooding, so that early agriculture was able to produce multiple crops per year without irrigation, as the irrigation took place naturally because of the annual flooding of the Nile. The Indus and the Yellow river also flooded regularly, but were not as predictable as the Nile.The plentiful sun and plentiful river water meant that multiple crops could be raised each year, and the food surplus made possible by river valley agriculture meant that these societies could support growing populations, and that not everyone was forced to farm in order for there to be sufficient food for all. Individuals could specialize in crafts like building, pottery, metallurgy, and eventually even tasks like writing (record keeping), and government, thus allowing civilizations to be born.As farming techniques were gradually improved over thousands of years, and inventions like the plow and irrigation were made, human communities moved beyond these river valleys and established what is known as the “First Temperate Neolithic,” that is say, farming communities made possible by more advanced farming techniques that could be adapted to geographical regions others than fertile river valleys in tropical and sub-tropical regions.