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Article: The coffee belt. JS presents the five themes of geography: location, place, movement, regions and human-environment interactions.(GeoSkills)
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- September 15, 2008
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The second theme of geography is place. In the coffee trade, for instance, place plays a keg role. If you enter a Starbucks, you will see a list of blends named for the islands, countries, and territories from which they came. Brazilian, Javanese, and Sumatran are just a few names you might see. What do these places have in common? They are located between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the area of the world where coffee plants are grown [see map].
Tropical places provide warm temperatures, ample rain, and fertile soil--the perfect environment for cultivating coffee. In fact, the first coffee plants were located in the ...
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