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Geography: 5 Themes

Geography: 5 Themes. World Cultures # 6 in notebook. Location- Absolute and Relative. Absolute- an exact location of people and places on the surface of the Earth a street address or mile marker on a highway. Relative Location. Location in relation to other places and people

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Geography: 5 Themes

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  1. Geography: 5 Themes World Cultures # 6 in notebook

  2. Location- Absolute and Relative • Absolute- an exact location of people and places on the surface of the Earth • a street address or mile marker on a highway

  3. Relative Location • Location in relation to other places and people • Ex. I live near Coach Tomlin, The high school is located East of Pittsburgh

  4. Place A place is an area that is defined by everything in it. All places have features that give them personality and distinguish them from other places. Ex: If you refer to your school as a place, then that place would include walls, windows, gym, cafeteria, classrooms, people, clothing, books, maps, mops, brooms, hallways, mice (if you have them) and everything else in the school, including the languages spoken.

  5. Place • Physical- climate, soil,plants, animals • Human- governments, economies, housing styles, communications

  6. Movement -The way and reasons that people, ideas, and products move. -This can be local such as how did you get to school today, or it can be global such as how did humans get to North America? 

  7. Region Places with similar traits- can be: physical, language, religious, monetary

  8. Human/Environment Interaction How do humans interact with/use their environments?

  9. Human-Environment Interaction • How do people depend on the environment? (Example: In ancient times, the annual flooding of the Nile River produced good soil for growing crops.) • How to they adapt to the environment? (Example: The ancient Egyptians built their homes above the flood plain.)  • How do they modify the environment?(Example: The ancient Egyptians built irrigation ditches to help water the crops. In modern times, Egypt built a dam to control the flood waters of the Nile River.) 

  10. What You Need to Know for the Quiz(Next Thursday/Friday) • Vocabulary - 30 terms • Latitude and Longitude • Five Themes of Geography • Five Elements of Culture (Monday)

  11. How Can One Remember The Five Themes of Geography? • Mr. Lip • M=Movement • R=Region • L=Location • I=Human/Environment Interaction • P=Place

  12. The Five Themes of Geography • Movement • Region • Location • Human/Environment Interaction • Place

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