Louisiana Geography Chapter 2 Summary

Louisiana: The History of an American State discusses how culture and geography relate to each other in Chapter 1 and 2. In Ch. 2,”Louisiana’s Geography”, the writers of the textbook divide the discussion about geography into five different topics. Organized into their own section, the topics include ’location’, ‘waterways’, ‘natural regions’, ‘climate’, and ‘human environment interaction’. For the purposes of understanding the role that geography has in shaping culture, only four of the five sections in Ch. 2 provide enough information relevant to the task of establishing a link between Louisiana’s physical geography and its cultural geography. Of all the five sections on physical geography in Ch. 2, the four sections most important on Louisiana’s

Because latitude and longitude refer to a specific location, absolute location can be described as the same thing (p.37-38). Absolute location helps people understand exactly where things are and majorly affect the culture of LA. Relative location, which shows where a place is in relation to another place, helps the native people of Louisiana know where things are located (p.37). Latitude and longitude also help mark political boundaries. Boundaries allow people to know where states or cities end and where another begins. These examples, help improve the understanding of where things are, therefore also relate to the culture of LA. Even though location is important to our understanding of culture, so are

Flood control includes: levees, locks, dams, canals and reservoirs, which enable the people in Louisiana to live safely (p.64). Because of bad hurricanes, wetlands are beginning to vanish. To prevent vanishing coastlines, the government in Louisiana has made many precautions. Other environmental problems include hyacinth and nutria, which were brought to Louisiana to make life better, but it ended up being a burden (p.69). Now, nutria is out of control and is damaging most of Louisiana’s vegetation. These examples show that the way people interact with the environment affect people, nature, and the culture of