Geography

Also Joelle[: [[image:kn-150.gif width="416" height="366" caption="Map of North Korea"]] ** North Korea can be found in east Asia on the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. It's sides are bordered by Korea Bay and Sea of Japan and is set between China, a bit of Russia, and South Korea. It mostly rains in the summer but is very temperate. North Korea is made up of hills and mountains seperated valleys and has plains along the coast in the west. There are droughts in the late spring that end in severe floods. There are also a lot of typhoons in the fall. They have many natural resources including coal, lead, zinc, graphite, copper, gold, and salt. The Yalu River runs through it as well. **
 * __North Korea:__**

It is also temperate and rains heavier in summer rather than winter. North Korea has mostly hills and mountains. It also has wide coastal plains in the west and south. High winds and floods are created by the occasional typhoons. There are also low-level earthquakes in the southwest. They also have coal, lead, and graphite.
 * __South Korea:__**
 * South Korea can be found in east Asia on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula.

--- Geograpy influences human actions because of the land a certain country is on, the resources it carries, and the countries that surround it. People will fight for resources they need and will also take over a country's land for it's own. The Soviets and Japanese have taken over Korea and even North Korea and South Korea have fought for eachothers land. --- People trade and migrate because they may not have materials or foods they need to survive and can get more resources somewhere else. Trading is easy if you have a surplus of a certain item that you can give to someone else in exchange for something they have a great amount of that is of great importance to you. Migration is better if you want to own most of the items you need and/or can't trade anything from your country for those items. North Korea carries gold which is important to alot of countries and they may want to trade with North Korea for that gold. --- The environment helped shape culture because people use the environment to create things they need in their culture. Their culture is somewhat based on things around their environment. In Korea, their food is dependent on their environment because they eat certain things that are common in the land they are on. They also have to wear proper clothing for their weather because of the high winds and they must always be prepared for heavy rains that may even lead to flooding and typhoons. --- Some places are better than others because they have better land to grow crops and vegetation on and they have better climate than others. Korea has many typhoons and flooding and most people don't like to live in that sort of environment. It's not a very warm, tropic-like place to live in and even has earthquakes.**

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