英国Geography地理.ppt

What is “culture”? The full range of learned human behavior patterns Society = a group of interacting people Culture = what those people do together Things cultures around the worldshare in common Spoken language with rules and grammar Classifying people by age and sex (man, woman, teenager, elderly) Families and kinship A distinction between men’s work and women’s work A concept of privacy Leadership roles in making decisions for the community A difference between good and bad behavior Rules for sexual behavior Medicine Body ornamentation Making jokes and playing games Art Religion, belief in the supernatural, belief in life after death A beautiful country with moors, lochs, islands, mountains and ancient castles. Physiographic Features: Scotland 3 natural zones: the North-West and Central Highlands (the Grampians) Ben Nevis, 1,343 meters 790 islands: Shetland, Orkney, and the Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides the Central Lowlands the Southern Uplands moorlands Physiographic Features: Scotland Scotland: Central Lowland Or: the Scottish Lowlands, the Midland Valley Lies in the valleys of Clyde and the Forth A rift valley mainly comprising Paleozoic formations: coal and iron The most important region in Scotland, which contains most of the cultivated farmland, industry and population. Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland Glasgow, the chief center of commerce and industry, are situated here. Tourism Middle England: mountains--- the Pennines---“backbone of England” originating from the end of the Paleozoic Era around 300?million years ago high moorland and upland areas, indented by fertile valleys of the region’s river Physiographic Features: England the Lake District: on the west side of northern Pennines also known as The Lakes or Lakeland the Lake poets: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey England Lowland: to the south of the Pennines consist of green rolling hills: Cotswold Hills, Chiltern Hills, North and South Downs na