Choose a food or drink item, a cuisine, an invention, or an idea, and
then research how four geographic concepts are related to and affect your topic. Instead of presenting your
research as a traditional paper, you'll use PowerPoint to create a narrated presentation. Your presentation
will be structured like a paper, including a title, introduction to the topic, main body, summary and
conclusions, and references. Creative use of properly cited graphics and photos from the Internet relevant
to your topic is required.
First, choose a food item, cuisine, invention, or idea that interests you. Some will have more information
available about them than others, so it's worth doing some investigation before you settle on one. If you're
not sure if your desired topic is appropriate, please feel free to ask!
Once you have selected your topic, you will then do research to see how each of the following geographic
concepts affects or is related to your topic
:1. Regions
- Cultural
3Landscape
4Diffusion
Distance decay. Distance decay refers to the fact that influence and interaction between locations
decreases as the distance between them increases. As such, it has a significant influence on how things
change as they diffuse away from their point of origin. Be sure to address these specific geographic terms
and concepts in your work. You don't need to address them in this order, but you do need to address all of
them. You may use "subsets" of these definitions (e.g. contagious diffusion) if such subsets exist. Be sure to
refer to your text and other reliable resources to ensure you completely understand these concepts. You
should be detailed in your treatment of these concepts - for instance, you should explain both how and why
your choice varies by region, and how and why it has been affected by distance decay. Remember that
geography, as an academic discipline, seeks to explain why things vary from place to place, not just
describe how they do.