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What is Geography?

What is Geography?. It is the study of the earth. Geography teaches us about the physical and human aspects of our world. Geography shows the relationship between people and the environment. What is a geographer?. Someone who analyzes the Earth from many points of view.

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What is Geography?

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  1. What is Geography?

  2. It is the study of the earth

  3. Geography teaches us about the physical and human aspects of our world. • Geography shows the relationship between people and the environment.

  4. What is a geographer? • Someone who analyzes the Earth from many points of view.

  5. When geographers work, they are guided by two basic questions: • Where are things located? • Why are they there? To find these answers, geographers use five themes to organize information

  6. The Five Themes: • Location – Geographers begin to study a place by finding where it is, or its location. • Place – Geographers study the physical and human features of a location. • Human-Environment Interaction – Geographers study how people affect or shape physical characteristics of their natural surroundings and how does their surroundings (environment) affect them?

  7. 4. Movement – Helps explain how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another. 5. Regions – Geographers compare the climate, land, population, or history of one place to another.

  8. The Geographer’s Tools Globes and Maps: As people explored the Earth, they collected information about it. Mapmakers wanted to present this information correctly. The best way was to put it on a globe, a round ball that represented the Earth.

  9. Because globes are not practical or easy to use, flat maps were invented. However, the earth is round and a map is flat. Mapmakers had to find ways to make maps accurate Lines of Longitude and Latitude

  10. Latitude Longitude Longitude Latitude

  11. Prime Meridian Tropic of Cancer Equator Tropic of Capricorn

  12. Prime Meridian

  13. Equator

  14. The Hemispheres

  15. Continents (At Night)

  16. Continents

  17. North America

  18. South America

  19. Europe

  20. Africa

  21. Asia

  22. Oceania

  23. Antarctic

  24. Oceans

  25. Mountain Ranges

  26. Mountain Ranges

  27. What is the Highest Mountain?

  28. Mauna Kea, Hawaii What is the Tallest Mountain Mauna Kea, Hawaii

  29. What is the Tallest Mountain?

  30. Tallest Mount (known) in our Solar System – Olympus Mons, Mars

  31. Olympus Mons

  32. Waterfalls Largest (volume) Inga Falls, Nigeria 1,500,000 cfs (Niagara =85,000 cfs) Tallest Angel Falls, Venezuela

  33. Major Rivers

  34. Major Rivers – North America

  35. Major Rivers – South America

  36. Major Rivers - Europe

  37. Major Rivers - Africa

  38. Maori, New Zealand People of the World

  39. Zulu, South Africa People of the World

  40. Khoisan, Botswana People of the World

  41. Aborigine, Australia People of the World

  42. People of the World Samoan, Pacific Islands

  43. People of the World Ndebele, South Africa

  44. People of the World Inca, Peru

  45. People of the World Hopi, USA

  46. People of the World Greek

  47. People of the World Russian, Russia

  48. People of the World Vietnamese, Vietnam

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