Foundations for Livability Survey
Student Handout A
Before you can properly administer (ask people the questions) your survey, you have to know what you're asking. There is a good chance that some or many of the questions will be confusing to those being surveyed. So your group will need to come up with working definitions/explanations of what the following are before you will be allowed to do your survey:
- Elevation
- Average Rainfall
- Latitude Range
- Natural Vegetation
- Land Use
- Climate Zone
- Average Yearly Temperature
- Fresh Water Access
- Natural Disasters
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/climate.htm (climate zone info)
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/680.html (effects of latitude on places)
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/mearth.html (water resources)
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/category.php/2.html (Land Use info)
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/ (natural disasters)
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/geogres/maps/mmgif/altzona.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/geg101i/glossary.htm&h=441&w=640&sz=46&tbnid=lr2JXFIs9r66cM:&tbnh=94&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Delevation%2Bclimate&usg=__xQfV9yceOePaUNDfrhK11XbiYiQ=&ei=V96bS4q0Iov-NaHjyOYN&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=7&ct=image&ved=0CBcQ9QEwBg (see A Climate, B Climate, C Climate, D Climate)
http://www.weatherbase.com/ (select at least one location from each of our categories for average yearly temperature to give as examples)
http://hubpages.com/hub/Natural-Regions-Of-The-Earth (natural vegetation)
Google Earth (choose at least two cities from the United States for each of the elevation levels we included in our survey to give people as examples of where they may want to live)
http://www.met.utah.edu/jhorel/html/wx/climate/normrain.html (use this list to choose at least two cities from the United States for each of the average rainfall levels we included in our survey to give people as examples of where they may want to live)
Use those sites to help you finish the following statement(s):
__________can affect the livability of a place in the following ways...
Examples of ________ are...
Once you have finished this document, upload it to the class edmodo page for me to see. Also, create a page on your geography706 group wiki-spaces page. You may take respondents to this page as you give the survey.