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Five Themes of Geography. Geographer’s Questions. Where are things located? Why are they located there? Why care?. Location: What is it?. Absolute Location Latitude Longitude Relative Location Where a place is located in relationship to other places. Location: How is it used?.
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Geographer’s Questions • Where are things located? • Why are they located there? • Why care?
Location: What is it? • Absolute Location • Latitude • Longitude • Relative Location • Where a place is located in relationship to other places
Location: How is it used? It answers the question “Where are things located?”
Regions: What is it? • Divides the world into areas that have at least one common characteristic that separates it from the surrounding areas
Regions: How is it used? • Used to make comparisons by dividing the world into different region based on political divisions, physical features, cultural characteristics, or many other types of characteristics
Sonoran Desert Region
Place: What is it? Describes the physical and human characteristics of a site
Place: How is it used? • Used to describe the physical characteristics as nature created (mountains, rivers, soil, beaches) • Used to describe the human characteristics of the people who live in an area (buildings, roads, clothing, work people do)
Physical Features Human Features Your Community
C ubs make the bleacher bums cheer, afternoons at Wrigley Field H ot dogs on every corner from Bridgeport to Evanston I nland body of water called Lake Michigan C onnects the city to the waters of the wide world A ssembler, retailer, railroader, meatpacker, banker G reat buildings like the Sears Tower, Shedd Aquarium, Hancock Center, Soldier Field O riginally flowing into Lake Michigan, the Chicago River now flows to the Mississippi River Basin
Movement: What is it? • The way people, goods, and ideas travel from place to place
Movement: How is it used? • Used to help geographers understand the relationship among places • Looks at all types of movement and the effects they have on the people
Interaction: What is it? • Refers to the way the earth appears as a result of how humans have changed it
Interaction: What is it? • Humans adapt to the environment • Humans modify the environment • Humans depend on the environment
Interaction: How is it used? • Used to describe how humans interact with the environment – what changes have been made to the environment because of humans • http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=0b6b55e6a27f3f200bb5
Changes in Dubai • Images of Dubai
Which Theme? • Describes how people, goods, and ideas move from place to place • Refers to how people use their environment and how the environment affects the lives of people • is used to describe how an area has at least one common characteristic • describes where you are on a map using latitude and longitude • includes the physical features of an area andthe human features of an area • describes where a place is located in relationship to other places
Match ‘Em Up • _____ The Great Plains used to be a wide open area with no settlements or farms. Today towns and cities dot the Great Plains, and much of the land is used for farming. • _____ Areas that receive very little rainfall are called deserts. • _____ Texas is south of Oklahoma.
Match ‘Em Up • ____ Hawaii is made up of islands, and it offers a variety of tourist attractions. • _____ Goods are shipped in large tractor-trailer trucks across interstate highways. • _____ Maine has many different economic areas, including heavy forests and tourist areas.
Match ‘Em Up • _____ The country of Guam is at 13o N latitude and 145o E longitude. • _____ One way to communicate information is to write letters to our friends and relatives. • _____ The building of new houses on areas that had always been forests frequently makes it difficult for animals to find homes.
Match ‘Em Up • _____ Swiss chalets and high mountains called the Alps are two of the ways we can identify the country of Switzerland.
Other things to remember: • Label the 7 continents and 4 oceans • What is located at 0o latitude? • What is located at 0o longitude? • What is the latitude of the North Pole? South Pole? • What is located at 180o longitude? • What is the relative location of Brandon?
