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Five Themes of Geography

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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Five Themes of Geography

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  1. Five Themes of Geography

  2. Geographer’s Questions • Where are things located? • Why are they located there? • Why care?

  3. Location: What is it? • Absolute Location • Latitude • Longitude • Relative Location • Where a place is located in relationship to other places

  4. Location: How is it used? It answers the question “Where are things located?”

  5. Regions: What is it? • Divides the world into areas that have at least one common characteristic that separates it from the surrounding areas

  6. 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

  7. Climatic Region

  8. Appalachian Region

  9. Sonoran Desert Region

  10. Place: What is it? Describes the physical and human characteristics of a site

  11. 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)

  12. Place

  13. Physical Features Human Features Your Community

  14. 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

  15. Movement: What is it? • The way people, goods, and ideas travel from place to place

  16. 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

  17. Interaction: What is it? • Refers to the way the earth appears as a result of how humans have changed it

  18. Interaction: What is it? • Humans adapt to the environment • Humans modify the environment • Humans depend on the environment

  19. 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

  20. Mountain top RemovalCoal Mining

  21. Palm Island - Djoubti

  22. Changes in Dubai • Images of Dubai

  23. 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

  24. 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.

  25. 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.

  26. 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.

  27. Match ‘Em Up • _____ Swiss chalets and high mountains called the Alps are two of the ways we can identify the country of Switzerland.

  28. 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?

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