THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE 5 THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY AND THE NATURAL, SOCIAL, CULTURAL, ECONOMICAL AND POLITICAL COMPONENTS

Mexico is a country where great variety of natural elements merge with a large population that is heterogeneous, rich in traditions and customs, with distinctive roots and diverse economic activities. It is a constant process of transformation.

The dynamics of the ABIOTIC, BIOTIC and ANTHROPIC components of each of the geographical spaces are so varied that there are multiple causes that make them different.

PHYSICAL FACTORS OF THE TOPOGRAPHY

NATURAL LANDSCAPE CAN BE TRANSFORMED INTO A CULTURAL ONE

GEOLOGIC PROCESS MAKE SOME NATURAL REGIONS DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS

CLIMATES DETERMINED BY ELEMENTS SUCH AS TEMPERATURE, ATMOSPHERE, PRESSURE, WIND, HUMIDITY, CLOUDINESS, PRECIPITATION AND EVAPORATION, AND CAN BE MODIFIED BY FACTORS SUCH AS LATITUDE, ALTITUDE, TOPOGRAPHY, LAND AND SEA DISTRIBUTION, DISTANCE FROM THE SEA AND MARINE CURRENTS, OZONE LAYER  VARIATIONS, DESERTIFICATION...

NATURAL REGIONS ARE DETERMINED BY THE CONFIGURATION OF TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATE AND FLORA OF THE REGION.

NATURAL REGIONS INCLUDE RAINFOREST, THE SAVANNAH, TROPICAL FORESTS, THE STEPPE, DESERTS, MIXED FORESTS, PRAIRIES, CONIFEROUS FORESTS, THE TUNDRA AND THE REGION OR PERPETUAL ICE.

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES ARE DETERMINED BY THE LAYOUT OF RESOURCES.

The key is to find a harmonious balance between nature and man that allows for sustainability in the use and care of the environment and its resources. We are all responsible for caring of the environment and its resources. We are all responsible for caring for water, plants, animals, rivers, lakes, seas, etc... Avoiding their misuse and polluting them with substances and/or waste.

It is complicated to break the tie between nature and culture. No culture can be fully understood without the slightest exploration of its environmental context. Cultural regions show similar characteristics in the basic elements of a culture, such as religion, language and history.

The parallelism between the economic components and the spatial categories are essentially found in the location of natural components, such as topography, altitude, hydrography, climatology and pedology, which require specific economic activities that are based on the natural resources and nature of the physical environment.

The territory defines the identity of a social group, on local as well as national level. Through its landscape, it reflects the environmental history of the interaction between the propensity of natural resources, the technological processes of transformation and the result of the economic activities of its inhabitants.

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