WHAT IS GEOGRAPHY?

IT IS THE STUDY OF THE EARTH

Geography teaches us about the physical and human aspects of our world. Geography shows the relationship between people and the environment.

WHAT IS A GEOGRAPHER? Someone who analyzes the Earth from many points of view.

When geographers work, they are guided by two basic questions: 1)Where are things located? 2)Why are they there? To find these answers, geographers use five themes to organize information

THE FIVE THEMES: 1.Location – Geographers begin to study a place by finding where it is, or its location. 2.Place – Geographers study the physical and human features of a location. 3.Human-Environment Interaction – Geographers study how people affect or shape physical characteristics of their natural surroundings and how does their surroundings (environment) affect them?

4.Movement – Helps explain how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another. 5.Regions – Geographers compare the climate, land, population, or history of one place to another.

THE GEOGRAPHER’S TOOLS Globes and Maps: As people explored the Earth, they collected information about it. Mapmakers wanted to present this information correctly. The best way was to put it on a globe, a round ball that represented the Earth.

Because globes are not practical or easy to use, flat maps were invented. However, the earth is round and a map is flat. Mapmakers had to find ways to make maps accurate Lines of Longitude and Latitude

Longitude Latitude

Equator Tropic of Cancer Tropic of CapricornPrime Meridian

Equator

THE HEMISPHERES

CONTINENTS (AT NIGHT)

CONTINENTS

NORTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

EUROPE

AFRICA

ASIA

OCEANIA

ANTARCTIC

OCEANS

MOUNTAIN RANGES

WHAT IS THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN?

WHAT IS THE TALLEST MOUNTAIN Mauna Kea, Hawaii

WHAT IS THE TALLEST MOUNTAIN?

TALLEST MOUNT (KNOWN) IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM – OLYMPUS MONS, MARS

OLYMPUS MONS

WATERFALLS Tallest Angel Falls, Venezuela Largest (volume) Inga Falls, Nigeria 1,500,000 cfs (Niagara =85,000 cfs)

MAJOR RIVERS

MAJOR RIVERS – NORTH AMERICA

MAJOR RIVERS – SOUTH AMERICA

MAJOR RIVERS - EUROPE

MAJOR RIVERS - AFRICA

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Maori, New Zealand

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Zulu, South Africa

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Khoisan, Botswana

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Aborigine, Australia

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Samoan, Pacific Islands

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Ndebele, South Africa

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Inca, Peru

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Hopi, USA

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Greek

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Russian, Russia

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Vietnamese, Vietnam

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Afghani, Afghanistan

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Pakistani, Pakistan

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD