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Why History and Geography Matters

Why History and Geography Matters. Vocabulary Words. history Evidence geography. relative location absolute location Region. history: the study of people and events of the past. evidence: Proof. Social Studies. History. History is what happened in the past. It affects all people.

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Why History and Geography Matters

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  1. Why History and Geography Matters

  2. Vocabulary Words history Evidence geography relative location absolute location Region

  3. history: the study of people and events of the past.

  4. evidence: Proof

  5. Social Studies

  6. History • History is what happened in the past. • It affects all people. • The main subject of concern in history isTIME.

  7. Evidence • What is evidence?

  8. Evidence • Historians examine many kinds of evidence (PROOF), and use it to explain when events took place and why they happened when they did.

  9. Evidences in History Pictures

  10. Buildings Sculpture Art

  11. Studying history teaches us about people of the past and the present. • It shows us how ways of life have changed and how they have stayed the same.

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  13. Secondary Sources Primary Sources • History is studied from TWO (2) kinds of sources.

  14. Primary source: Records made by people whosaw or took part in an event. • It gives people of today a direct link to a past event.

  15. Primary Sources

  16. Secondary Sources • A secondary source is not a direct link to an event. • It provides information about an event by someone who did not see it happen.

  17. Newspaper article Magazine article Encyclopedia entry

  18. Is this a primary or secondary source? Why?

  19. Give two differences between primary and secondary sources?

  20. Geogra

  21. Who is a geographer? Geographers are people who study geography.

  22. THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY • Themes are topics that geographers use to study the Earth’s features.

  23. Themes of Geography There are FIVE (5) themes of geography. • They are easily remembered as MR. HELP M: MOVEMENT R: REGION HE: HUMAN- ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS L: LOCATION P: PLACE

  24. Themes of Geography

  25. MOVEMENT MOVEMENT: It is how people, products and ideas movefrom place to place using transportation and communication.

  26. Movement of people: • Cars, Trucks, Trains and Planes. • Movement of products: • Cars, Trucks, Trains and Planes.

  27. How can ideas and information be moved from place to place?

  28. Ideas and information are moved using:. Computer (e-mail, internet), mail, TV, radio and magazine.

  29. MOVEMENT • Movement helps us understand: • How we connect and depend on people in other parts of the world. • The causes and effects of movement.

  30. MOVEMENT How are people and products moved from one place to another?

  31. REGION • Region: This is an area of land that has common features • The common features can be: • physical • human • religious • cultural

  32. HUMAN- ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS • Human- Environment Interaction: This is how people depend on their environment.

  33. People changetheir environment by building cities. They clear lands to build bridges and roads.

  34. LOCATION • Location describes where something is on Earth. • It answers the question “where is it?” • There are two kinds of location

  35. Absolute Location Relative Location Location LOCATION

  36. Relative location: Where a place is in relation to other places. • Relative location is usually described by: • Direction (North, West, South, East) • Landmarks (Close to McDonalds, Opposite EAIS) • Distance to and from another place(3 kilometers from the mall)

  37. Relative location • The Nile River is in Egypt. • Argentina is near Brazil. • Nour’s house is opposite Cairo Festival City. • Alexandria is 179 kilometers from Cairo

  38. absolute location: Exact location on Earth. You use latitudeand longitudeto find absolute location. Absolute location is the global address of a place.

  39. Absolute location

  40. What is the difference between relative and absolute location? • Give two examples of relative location? • What are two things used to describe absolute location?

  41. PLACE • This answers the question ‘What is it like there?’ • Every place on Earth has its own special quality. It can be Physical or Human

  42. PLACE- PHYSICAL FEATURES • What are physical features? • Give three examples of physical features. • Are pyramids physical features?

  43. PHYSICAL FEATURES

  44. physical feature: a feature that has been formed by nature. Examples; Landforms, bodies of water, plants, animals

  45. Landforms Mountains Hills Cave Desert

  46. Bodies of Water Oceans, Lakes, Rivers

  47. Plants and Animals

  48. human feature: Features that are built by humans.

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