Instructions Take a Do Now from the bin under the phone. Take a textbook. This will be the textbook you take home today and leave at home. Use the textbook to look up and define the terms on both sides of your do-now sheet. Have your HW out on your desk. I will come around and check your HW and take down the # of your textbook.

The Five Themes of Geography A Framework for Studying the World Based on a Kristin Stiles and North Carolina Geographic Alliance PowerPoint Presentation

DEFINITION OF GEOGRAPHY ge·og·ra·phy 1 : 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

Geography is the study of the earth and everything on it.

Human-Environment Interaction 5 THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY Human-Environment Interaction MOVEMENT PLACE REGION LOCATION

WHAT IS “PRILM”? PRILM is a mnemonic device that can be used to help remember what the 5 Themes of Geography are. Simply put, take the first letter of each Theme to create the word PRILM. They are: Place Region Interaction (Human-Environment) Location Movement

Theme 1: Location Two Types of Location Where is It? Absolute/Exact Relative Where is It? Why is It There?

Absolute Location A specific place on the Earth’s surface Uses a grid system Latitude and longitude A global address

Latitude & Longitude

Latitude & the Equator

Longitude & the Prime Meridian

The Prime Meridian, Greenwich, England

The Equator

Absolute or Exact Location New Jersey Absolute or Exact Location Jonas Salk Middle School 40° N Latitude 74° W longitude Walt Disney World, Florida 28°N Latitude 81°W Longitude

Relative Location Where a place is in relation to another place Uses directional words to describe Cardinal and intermediate directions

DO NOW IS IN THE BIN Please complete the do now If anyone’s family has an extra Trump/Pence and/or a Clinton/Kaine campaign sign that they wouldn’t mind donating to this class, please let me know.

Theme 2: Place Physical Characteristics Land Features Mountains, plains, and plateaus Climate Bodies of Water

New Jersey: Physical Characteristics

Theme 2: Place Human Characteristics People Culture Language Religion Buildings and Landmarks Cities

New Jersey: Human Characteristics

Theme 3: Human Environment Interaction How People Interact With Their Environment People . . . Adapt to Their Environment Modify Their Environment Depend on Their Environment http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/corbis/DGT119/BAG0017.jpg

New Jersey: Human Environment Interaction

Theme 4: Movement The Mobility of People Goods Ideas How Places are linked to one another and the world

New Jersey: Movement

Theme 5: Regions What Places Have in Common Political Regions Landform Regions Agricultural Regions Cultural Regions

New Jersey: Regions Steve Pierce

World Timezones

U.S. Timezones

EARTH – Keeping Our Maps Accurate

Why does a globe show the Earth more accurately than a map? A globe is the same shape as Earth, so it represents it accurately.

GLOBES A sphere with a map printed on it. Same shape as the Earth Sizes and shapes are accurate. Not so easy to take with you. Flat maps are more useful, but map projections of the world always distort. - Maps can be much more detailed and specific.

The Mapmakers: Cartographers Vermeer, 1632-1675 The Cartographer Cartographers make map projections. (They’re easier to take with you than a globe.)

Genoese Nautical Chart of the World, A.D. 1457

World Map of Rosselli First to show the entire globe World Map of Rosselli First to show the entire globe. Notice there is an extra continent!

A World Map Today

New Netherlands

New Jersey as a Dutch Colony

South Amboy/Morgan & Madison Township (Old Bridge)

Maps are super-accurate now. Why? Exploration More detailed maps as time went by. Technology! Flight Space travel/satellites

GPS SATELLITES

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