As humans pollute the environment or construct houses and cities, the environment suffers both immediate and long-term consequences. Natural resources destroyed by overuse, such as oil, cannot be quickly replaced. People attempt to control human processes through regulation and they try to reduce the impact of the physical in a variety of ways such as building diversion ditches to reduce flooding, or installing tornado warning systems. Back Landscape Landscape is the scenery of a place including the physical characteristics as well as the human characteristics. Back Human Characteristics of Places Human characteristics of places include the types of houses people build, the ways they earn a living, the games children play, the languages people speak, their religious beliefs, their ethnicity, the daily schedules they follow, the foods they eat, and how they govern themselves.
Intermediate directions are southwest, southeast, northwest, and northeast.
The compass rose usually shows both magnetic and true directions. A compass rose shows the orientation of a map on Earth. Geographers use a compass rose or the north arrow when drawing their own maps. An explanatory list of the symbols appearing on a chart or map is a legend. Sometimes, this is called a key because it is key to understanding what a map is saying.