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How Does Air Temperature Shape a Place? S01 E07

Today, we’re going to visit Siberia and take a closer look at how temperatures there (and around the globe) impact the way cultures, communities, and landscapes form. Air temperature plays a much bigger role than just helping us decide what we’re going to wear everyday, it dictates the kind of foods we can grow, how we build our cities and roads, and the kinds of industries that can even exist in a location. And in a region like Siberia, where it can get cold, like REALLY COLD, the air temperature has had an incredible impact on life. But before we end this episode we’ll warm up with a visit to Phoenix, Arizona to talk about how they too have to make a lot of decisions due to the extreme heat of a city in the middle of the desert.


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What is Geography?
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What is a Map?
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What is space and how do we study it?
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What is Physical Geography?
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How Does the Earth Move?
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What Does the Atmosphere Do?
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How Does Air Temperature Shape a Place?
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Where Does Wind Come From?
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How Do Oceans Circulate?
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What is a Cloud?
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How Can Rain Create Conflict? Precipitation and Water Use
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What Are the Different Types of Cyclones?
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How do we Classify Climates?
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What is Climate Change?
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What Are Ecosystems?
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Population & Food
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What is Soil (and Why is it Important)?
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What Are Rocks and How Do They Form?
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The Plate Tectonics Revolution
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How Does the Earth Create Different Landforms?
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What Are Volcanoes?
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What is Weathering?
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How Rivers Shape the Landscape
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Why Does Jakarta Flood So Easily?
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Groundwater & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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What Are Glaciers?
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Natural Hazards
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What is Human Geography?
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Race, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Landscape
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How Does Language Move?
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How Did Religion Spread Along the Silk Road?
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Where and Why Do People Move?
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How Populations Grow and Change
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How Does Disease Move?
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Tyranny of the Map
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What Holds a Country Together or Tears it Apart?
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What are the Patterns of Border Conflicts?
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Capitalism, Communism, & Political Economies
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Colonialism
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What is a “Developed” Country?
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GMOs and their Role in Agriculture
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Why is There Uneven Access to Food?
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How Do We Produce Food?
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Mineral Extraction
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Why are People Moving to Cities?
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How Are Cities Organized?
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What is Urban Planning?
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How did Detroit Become the Motor City?
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Sustainable Urban Design
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Geographies of the Future
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