[transcribed 2021-06-02]

% Chapter 1: Exploring Geography

**Page 4: Apply it!**

**How can a sense of place help you identify an issue and understand why it is
important?**

Knowing where a place is can assist understanding the problem by making it
easier to find out what kind of characteristics the location might have – for
example, how polluted the water there might be, where water is coming from, and
what the nearby weather might be like.

**Choose one of the photographs in Figure A-1 (other than the mountain pine
beetle). Suggest, with specific examples, how the three key questions and four
ways of thinking could be used to answer the question posed with the
photograph.**

Looking at the question “Why do some Canadians see these signs in their
neighbourhoods?”, which presents a sign labeled “tsunami excavation”..

*What is where?* The picture does not give a specific location, but the sign
implies that the area the route leads from is known to get hit by tsunamis.

*Why there?* The sign is likely there to guide people away from the area
affected by tsunamis to somewhere safer. Of course, this also brings up the
question of why that place is effected by tsunamis.

*Why care?* The photo shares that there is effort to make places where people
are effected by tsunamis safer, but it might be good to put extra effort into
solving the trouble. Though the picture does not show that it’s really
necessary, more research may help people there even further. In the broader
scale of things, understanding why the area is effected by tsunamis, and why
tsunamis occur frequently there in the first place, could help prepare for
worse similar natural disasters in the future.

*Interrelationships:* Understanding why the place is effected by tsunamis is
important for preparing better for the future.

*Spatial significance:* Knowing what really happens to nearby people, plants,
and buildings can be useful for better protecting them.

*Patterns and trends:* Questions such as “Has the tsunami situation been
getting worse?” and “Has this type of thing occurred elsewhere? What
similarities are there between here and those places?” can help lead to the
cause of the issue, and from there, to a solution.

*Geographic perspective:* Looking at how people have dealt with this issue
before, even in other places, can assist understanding how to solve the problem
better here. Understanding the price of repairing areas can lead to a more
efficient method of rebuilding and fixing damage, or even a way to avoid it in
the first place.