Name: Crash Course: Geography
Uploaded: 2021
Description: Welcome to Crash Course Geography hosted by Alizé Carrère!

Welcome to Crash Course Geography hosted by Alizé Carrère!

So, what is geography? In our first episode of Crash Course Geography, we will endeavor to answer this seemingly simple question with the help of a similarly simple factoid: that the US imports more than 3 billion pounds of bananas from Guatemala each year.

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What is Geography? Crash Course Geography #1

Today, we're going to talk about the differences between reference maps and thematic maps, take a closer look at how projections play a part in how we perceive maps, and discuss the role of the cartographer (or map maker) in all of this.

What is a Map? Crash Course Geography #2

Today we're going to talk about SPAAAAAACE, but not like stars and satellites and stuff. Instead, we're going to talk about geographic space.

What is space and how do we study it? Crash Course Geography #3

Today, we'll explore erosional gullies in Madagascar as we discuss the world's dynamic landscape, the Great Barrier Reef as we introduce the four major earth systems (the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere).

What is Physical Geography? Crash Course Geography #4

Today, we're going to talk about how the Earth moves, but to do that, we're going to have to go way back to the early days of the galaxy! Processes that happened before the Earth even formed have led us to the geographic patterns and processes that create Earth's environments.

How Does the Earth Move? Crash Course Geography #5

Today, we're going to talk about its composition and layers, follow the path of a sunbeam of light as it travels through space and (potentially) reaches Earth's surface, and discuss how the greenhouse effect can be both a good and bad thing!

What Does the Atmosphere Do? Crash Course Geography #6

Today, we're going to visit Siberia and take a closer look at how temperatures there impact the way cultures, communities, and landscapes form.

How Does Air Temperature Shape a Place? Crash Course Geography #7

Today we're going to go into the science of where the wind comes from and take a closer look at the major wind systems and pressure belts across the globe.

Where Does Wind Come From? Crash Course Geography #8

Today, we're going to take a closer look at how the oceans circulate by following the life of a discarded water bottle as it gets snagged in the North Pacific Garbage Patch.

How Do Oceans Circulate? Crash Course Geography #9

Today, we'll talk about how clouds form, the three main types (cirrus, status, and cumulus), explain how and why we get rain, and end with a discussion on humidity and how high humidity can feel hot and sticky on a warm day but comfortable on a cold day.

What is a Cloud? Crash Course Geography #10

Today, we're going to zoom in and look more closely at how precipitation patterns around the Great Plains and the western United States has led to many conflicts involving the use and distribution of water resources.

How Can Rain Create Conflict? Precipitation and Water Use: Crash Course Geography #11

Today we're going to talk about two types of cyclones: mid-latitude cyclones and tropical cyclones.

What Are the Different Types of Cyclones? Crash Course Geography #12

Today, we're going to trace this history of the potato as we teach you about climate, how we classify it using the K?ppen system, and the ways humans have employed their geo-literacy to adapt to their surroundings.

How do we Classify Climates? Crash Course Geography #13

Today we're going to talk about climate change which is when there is a change in the average weather patterns in a region over a long period of time - these changes can be natural or human-caused.

What is Climate Change? Crash Course Geography #14

Today we're going to take a closer look at ecosystems -- which are communities of living organisms in an area interacting with their environment.

What Are Ecosystems? Crash Course Geography #15

Today we're going to talk about the link between population and food energy. As the world's population keeps growing, finding ways to provide enough food and water for everyone while supporting a sustainable environment can be tricky!

Population & Food: Crash Course Geography #16

In today's episode, we're going to show you how to create the perfect soil cake, examine its different soil horizons, and then take you on a trip along the 20th meridian from the Congo to northern Europe to show you how the composition of soil varies dramatically with the environment.

What is Soil (and Why is it Important)?: Crash Course Geography #17

In today's episode, we're going to follow the rock cycle of a piece of granite in the Himalayan mountains, and as you'll see, every rock has a far-reaching story to tell often millions of years in the making.

What Are Rocks and How Do They Form? Crash Course Geography #18

Today we're going to tell the story of a quiet revolution in the 1960s that shifted our entire understanding of how the Earth works.

The Plate Tectonics Revolution: Crash Course Geography #19

In today's episode, we're going to take a closer look at how landforms greatly influence how people live and derive meaning and a sense of place.

How Does the Earth Create Different Landforms? Crash Course Geography #20

Today we're going to take a closer look at these beautiful but dangerous landforms as we explore the different types of volcanoes and trace the patterns of volcanic activity around the world.

What Are Volcanoes? Crash Course Geography #21

In today's episode, we're just going to focus on the weathering part. We'll discuss mechanical, chemical, and biological weathering and take you on a tour of some of the landscapes they help shape from landslides and sinkholes to caves!

What is Weathering? Crash Course Geography #22

Today we're going to talk about rivers and how these dynamic, delicate, yet powerful systems are able to constantly change the landscape.

How Rivers Shape the Landscape: Crash Course Geography #23

Today we're going to talk about how and why floods happen both in spite of and because of, us. Specifically, we'll take a closer look at the island of Java, and its largest city, Jakarta.

Why Does Jakarta Flood So Easily? Crash Course Geography #24

Today, we're going to look at the Arab-Israeli Conflict, specifically at the role groundwater plays in preventing a pathway to peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Groundwater & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Crash Course Geography #25

Today we're going to talk about glaciers. These behemoth globs of compressed ice and snow moving across the land created fertile soils and physical features while also serving as frozen time capsules.

What Are Glaciers? Crash Course Geography #26

Today we wrap up the first half of our series on physical geography by taking a closer look at natural hazards - which are physical processes like heat waves and cyclones, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and floods and droughts.

Natural Hazards: Crash Course Geography #27

For the next half of this series, we will be discussing Human Geography — so we’ll still be looking at the Earth, but specifically, how human activity affects and is influenced by the Earth.

What is Human Geography? Crash Course Geography #28

In the next few episodes, we're going to start exploring the fundamental aspects of culture and how those with and without power are affected by culture, from cultural mixing to cultural violence.

Race, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Landscape: Crash Course Geography #29

Today, we're going to explore how words move, because the activities that prompt that movement can tell us a lot about how ideas as well move around the world.

How Does Language Move? Crash Course Geography #30

Today we're going to talk about the collection of routes known as the Silk Roads, and explore how worldview and other ideas spread along those trade routes.

How Did Religion Spread Along the Silk Road? Crash Course Geography #31

Today, we're going to mostly focus on the Indian diaspora, which is the largest in the world with over 18 million people of Indian descent living outside of India. We'll teach you about many different types of voluntary and involuntary migration throughout history and around the world.

Where and Why Do People Move? Crash Course Geography #32

Today, we'll discuss Malthusian and Boserup's predictions on the planet's carrying capacity and take a close look at a popular demography tool geographers use to predict population change: the Demographic Transition Model or DTM.

How Populations Grow and Change: Crash Course Geography #33

Today, we're going to look at strategies medical geographers use to help as many people as possible achieve the highest level of health possible.

How Does Disease Move? Crash Course Geography #34

Borders can bring people together, evoke passion and war, divide, conquer, and solidify power. We're going to focus on the tyranny of the map which is what happens when those in power draw boundaries in ways that conflict with how people in that place want to be grouped.

Tyranny of the Map: Crash Course Geography #35

Today we're going to talk about the forces that affect a country's stability.

What Holds a Country Together or Tears it Apart? Crash Course Geography #36

Today, we're going to take a closer look at borders and the stories they tell.

What are the Patterns of Border Conflicts? Crash Course Geography #37

In today's episode, we're going to take a closer look at the impact of politics on economies as we trace the history of Bulgaria and Germany following World War II, and examine the ways capitalism, and communism, impacted their economic strength today.

Capitalism, Communism, & Political Economies: Crash Course Geography #38

Today, we're going to unravel the impacts of colonialism at different times throughout history from Taiwan to Myanmar as we examine the longstanding impacts of these relationships.

Colonialism: Crash Course Geography #39

Today we’re going to discuss what it means for a place to be “developed”. Development is often associated with economic success — that is countries with higher standards of living and material wealth like those found in Europe and North America.

What is a “Developed” Country? Crash Course Geography #40

Today, we're going to take a closer look at GMOs, which are organisms whose DNA has been modified in a laboratory, and examine the impact of one GMO in particular, Bt Cotton, on the agrarian crisis in India.

Agribusiness, GMOs, and their Role in Development: Crash Course Geography #41

Today we're going to look at the diffusion of food across the globe during the Columbian Exchange and examine how changes in food technology from the Agricultural Revolution to the Green Revolution to the Genetic Revolution have played a significant part in food availability across the globe.

Why is There Uneven Access to Food? Crash Course Geography #42

Today, we're going to break down agricultural systems into three scales: subsistence, small-scale, and industrial agriculture. And we'll take a look at how a place's history plays a huge role in the system we see today as we follow the story of agriculture in the Philippines.

How Do We Produce Food? Crash Course Geography #43

Today we're going to take a look at mineral extraction -- or the removal of rocks and minerals from the Earth's crust -- and examine how this human activity impacts all aspects of Geography.

Mineral Extraction: Crash Course Geography #44

According to the UN, people living in urban places now outnumber those in rural areas — which is a pretty new phenomenon for many parts of the world.

Why are People Moving to Cities? Crash Course Geography #45

Today we're going to take a closer look at cities, examine how these large complex structures are organized, and identify patterns and differences in land use around the world.

How Are Cities Organized? Crash Course Geography #46

Today we're going to talk about urban planning, which is the design and regulation of space within urban areas. Urban planning helps weave together economic, social, and environmental goals within a region from work, and living, and unsurprisingly, has a tremendous influence on people's lives.

What is Urban Planning? Crash Course Geography #47

Today, we're discussing industrial geography by tracing the story of the automotive landscape as it formed across the manufacturing belt of the Upper Midwest of the United States, and show how it wasn't just a coincidence that it overlapped with transportation routes and access to raw materials.

How did Detroit Become the Motor City? | Industrial Geography | Crash Course Geography #48

Today, we're going to look at environmental planning and how it intersects with people and the communities they form.

Sustainable Cities: Crash Course Geography #49

In our final episode of Crash Course Geography we're going to take a look at the future, and to do that we'll need to revisit our fundamental geography tools: space, place, and human-environment interactions!