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What is Geography

What is Geography. Brainstorm. DEFINITION. Ge-og-ra-phy A science that deals with the description, distribution, and interaction of the diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth’s surface. Source: Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary. DEFINITION in plain English .

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What is Geography

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  1. What is Geography Brainstorm....

  2. DEFINITION • Ge-og-ra-phy • A science that deals with the description, distribution, and interaction of the diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth’s surface. • Source: Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary

  3. DEFINITION in plain English ... • Geography is the study of earth and everything on it!

  4. GEOGRAPHY-WHAT IS IT? • Geography organizes space by asking 3 basic questions: • Where is it? • Why is it there? • What are the consequences of it being there? The 5 themes of geography help to answer these questions

  5. 5 Themes of Geography • Location • Place • Human-environment interaction • Movement • Region

  6. Location (1) • Where is it? • Location may be ABSOLUTE OR RELATIVE • Absolute= specific • An absolute location is a latitude and longitude (a global location) or a street address (local location). • EX. Simcoe is located at 43°N, 80°W • Relative= general • Relative locations are described by landmarks, time, direction, particular place with another. • EX. Ireland road is located beside Walmart

  7. What is your home location? Absolute • 56°N, 112°W • 24 St James St. W, Waterford ON N0E1Y0 Relative • About 10 minutes North of Simcoe • Beside the corner store and across from the post office • South of the pound, past the row of cedar tree, on the other side of the fence

  8. Place (2) • Place is the description of the physical and human characteristics of a location • Two Characteristics of Place include: • Physical • Human • Physical characteristics • Landforms • Climate • vegetation • soil • Human Characteristics • Population • Land Use • Language • Religion

  9. Describe the area you live in Physical Characteristics • Flat, with some rolling plains • Sandy soil mixed with gravel in some areas • Deciduous and Coniferous trees • Cold, dry winter; hot, humid summer Human Characteristics • Man-made ponds • Gravel pits • Agriculture • Small business • Populated largely by European immigrants

  10. Human-Environment Interaction (3) • H-E-I is the idea of how humans and the environment affect each other • 3 Main Ideas • Humans depend on the environment • People depend on the mild climate to grow vegetables • Humans modify the environment • People modify dry seasons with irrigation in order to grow vegetables • Humans adapt to the environment • People adapt to weather changes by wearing the appropriate clothing (rain jacket in rain, toque in winter)

  11. Thinking Environment (building up to the activity) • All places have advantages and disadvantages for human settlement • One person’s advantage may be another’s disadvantage. • Some like the excitement of large cities while others prefer remoteness. Environment is not just trees, spotted owls, and rain forests. Environment is a feeling. What is the environment of a big city? A town? A village?

  12. Critical Thinking: Where would you live? • Given the choice, where would you live? Why? • What is the environment like there? • How do people interact with the environment? • How do the physical features affect things?

  13. My Response- Where would I live and Why If I could live anywhere in the world I would live in Coolangatta, Australia. I would live here because of the location (coastal), climate (tropical) and lifestyle (laid-back)

  14. What is the Environment like? Coolangatta Environment • Relaxed, warm and comfortable • Largely undisturbed • people value unique beach culture • most of the industry is further inland and is limited • Small town feel city • Still contains the conveniences of modern life in close proximity.

  15. How do people interact with the Environment? • In Coolangatta the majority of people respect the land, however, as the population increases, so does the industries, services and residences. Therefore: • open land is being used for human purposes

  16. How do people interact with the Environment: Coolangatta Continued • The people often work with nature and still preserve the natural vegetation around them • Build around valuable and unique physical features • Disadvantages to these beautiful beaches include: high tourist population, competitive activities including the quicksilver surf pro competition that pulls thousands of extra visitors each year

  17. How Physical Features affect the area • Because the city lies along the coast, the large beaches make the area desirable • Can’t build because • Ocean currents • Weathering • Erosion

  18. Physical Features affect Coolangatta • Services and Residential areas • View of the ocean is ideal • A lot of sky rise buildings begin to go up so that more people can utilize the view. • Need to be built in land • For Protective Purposes (storms, floods, etc.)

  19. Further Inland (Coolangatta) (PHYSICAL FEATURES AFFECT AREA) • Landforms become hilly and rocky making it difficult to build or travel • Therefore, the city is condensed and settled between mountains and ocean. As a result, the climate is virtually perfect.

  20. Physical Features affect area: Climate • Because of the location • The area receives adequate amounts of precipitation • Due to the climate factors of relief and ocean currents making it a more lush area where unique vegetation can form. • As a result to the unique vegetation, there are many protected areas and pars that are accessed for public touring but not building. • Proximity to the Pacific Ocean makes transportation of goods and services easy and therefore a comfortable living environment for its citizens.

  21. Movement (4) • Movement refers to the way people, products, information and ideas move from one place to another • 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?

  22. Thinking Movement • Not only do humans move but also ideas move; fashions move; fads move. • What is an example of an idea that moves? Fashion? Fad? • How do we depend on people in other places? • How would our lives change if our movement options changed? • What would happen if we traveled by camel or horse? • How do we move from place to place? • How do we actually get food?

  23. Movement • The movement of people, the import and export of goods, and mass communication have all played major roles in shaping our world. • People everywhere interact. They travel from place to place and they communicate • We live in a global village and global economy.

  24. Region (5) • A REGION is an area that is defined by certain similar characteristics. • Those unifying or similar characteristics can be physical, natural, human or cultural.

  25. Overview of Canadian Regions • Looking through the first unit of the textbook, identify some regions that are studied in this course: • Climate pg143 and 146 • Landforms pg 101 • Ecozones pg 160 • Vegetation pg 148

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