AP Human Zootopia Project

Hello. Ap Human Geography And welcome to the Ap Humans

Utopia project created by Jack Maguire and Riley hasn't stabbed.

So I know what you're thinking.

Why are we talking about Zootopia?

So let's talk about the ap human in Zootopia.

So to most people do, Utopia is just a kid's

movie where there are some animals living their lives.

And then there's a mystery they have to solve about

the savage animals.

Well, when you look past that plot, you can actually

see that there's a lot of aspects of human geography

found within the movie.

So in this presentation, we're going to go over all

seven Ap human geography units and talk about how the

movie highlights examples of each and every one of those

units. So let's start with unit one, which is our

introduction to human geography.

Thinking geographically.

So our first example that we pointed out from this

unit is time space compression.

Time space compression is when the time it takes to

travel from one place to another is shortened due to

the advancement in technology.

So for example, we had the horse, then we had

the car and now we can use airplanes.

So this is definitely shown in Zootopia because when judy

Hopps has to move into the central city away from

her home, which is a 211 mile distance, she uses

a train which takes her from her home to the

central city very quickly.

So with this technology, she's able to do this very

quickly. Our second example is time space convergence.

And this is similar to the time space compression.

Except we're not necessarily talking about physical distance, just the

overall interconnectedness of our world.

For example, the interactions of different cultures.

So when judy goes into the central city, she's able

to use her phone to talk to her parents who

are over 200 miles away.

And this is great because without this technology she wouldn't

be able to connect with her parents this well.

And our final example, we pointed out where top names

now, top names are names of places.

All places are named for a specific reason, a specific

name for a specific reason.

And we can definitely see this in Zootopia with Sahara

Square 200 town, just to name a few.

And these all correspond with the specific bios that they

cover. So now let's move into unit two.

Unity is population and migration.

And the first example we pointed out was distribution of

population in this unit.

We talk about how people are spread out across a

certain space and in Zootopia, as we go on this

little adventure through the city, we see how people are

in all of these different regions or districts as they

call them.

Oh and for a second example, we have rules to

urban migration.

So ernst rubinstein created the laws of migration, and one

of the laws was that people are most likely to

move from a rural to an urban area.

And this can definitely be seen with judy Hopps when

she wants to move away from her small rural rural

home into the big city and she wants to do

this for a specific reason, which is the third thing

we're going to talk about.

Pull factors.

Pull factors are aspects to a location that makes someone

want to migrate there.

And judy wanted to go into the center of Zootopia

because she wanted to follow her dream of becoming a

police officer.

So a great example of the pull factor is job

opportunity, which is what we're seeing here with judy starting

her job as a police officer.

So now for unit three, Unit three is cultural patterns

and processes.

For our first example, we have cultural amalgamation which is

basically where two cultures will come together to form one

culture. And this is one of the biggest parts of

the movie as we talk about how predators and prey

were always very separate.

But now in this modern society they've come together to

all live happily together.

For a second example, we have racism.

Now in ap human, we talk about racism.

But here it's not exactly racism.

It's more the difference of different species of animals.

So in general there's a lot of discrimination that happens

in Zootopia.

For example, judy is laughed at for becoming a police

officer because she's a bunny bunnies aren't necessarily supposed to

become police officers in the society.

And another example is when Nick goes to the ice

cream shop and tries to buy a popsicle and he's

refused service because he's a fox.

Oh, for a third example, we have pop culture.

So Zootopia has gazelle which is basically the Zoo Topia

version of Shakira and everyone knows her.

Everyone loves her and her presence has spread very contagious

lee throughout the city.

Which is how Pop culture works now.

For unit for unit, for is political organization of space.

We have three examples are, first one goes over a

specific type of boundary, which is the limited boundaries.

The limited boundaries are boundaries that are legally established.

So we look at this map, this is a map

of Zootopia.

We see the different regions such as Tonder town and

Sahara Square.

We see that there are lines that legally divide them

into different districts.

Now not only is this shown on a map, but

it's also shown in Zootopia itself.

With demarcated boundaries, demarcated boundaries are actually physical boundaries that

are in the real world.

So we see that in Zootopia there are these tunnels

that are that go between the different districts in Zootopia

and our final example is the evolutionary forces.

So Mayor Bellwether, she wants to villainize the predators.

She wants to make them look bad to make pray

look better.

Now this is a specific type of revolutionary force called

ethnic cleansing.

Basically what she's trying to do is push one part

of the population a way to improve her side of

the population.

What Now Unit five is agriculture and agriculture is something

that we see in the movie right away.

Um so we have intensive farming and market garden.

Then this of course relates to the farm that Judy's

family owns.

So we see that Judy's family does a lot of

hard work.

There's a lot of high levels of input and output

and that is an example of intensive farming.

And then with market garden we can of course see

that the family will sell their crops such as carrots

and blueberries.

So speaking of selling we have commercial farming now commercial

farming is when you don't just farm for yourself.

You farm for other people to sell and make a

profit. Which is definitely what the family is doing here.

They're selling their carrots and they're blueberries and they're making

a profit from it.

And our final example from unit five is the pesticide

use. Now pesticides are focused on in this unit because

they relate to how our agricultural world is structured now.

In the movie we see the night howlers and night

howlers contribute a lot to the plot, but they're also

very important in agricultural sense because these night howlers are

actually used as pesticides on do these families farm

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