Notes

What is Geography?  Geography is the study of people, their environment, and their resources  Geography answers the question how the natural environment affect the way people live.  Geography shows how people relate to the land and explains the past and the future through land examination.

History and Geography working together  History is an account of what happened in the lives of different people over a past time period.  Geography and History work together to explain what happened in the past.  People use geography and history to determine the best action to use in making decisions.  The past teaches us to strive to avoid mistakes and work for a better future.  We need to learn Geography and history to understand what the mistakes were.

Themes of Geography  Location  Place  Relationship  Movement  Region

Location  Location: Where something is and to find it.  Absolute: The exact location of a place  Examples are latitude, longitude, and a street address.  Relative: A general description where a place is located.

Place  Determine by it’s physical and human characteristics.  Physical characteristics include but not limited to: climate, soil, plant life, animal life, human constructions, and more.  Human characteristics includes city planning, farming, etc.

Relationship  Relationship refers to how Humans and the Environment interacts.  Humans have to adjust their lifestyle base on their surroundings.  Humans change their environment to make life easier.

Movement  Movement is the exchange of people, goods, and ideas from one place to another place.

Region  Regions are an area that has similar characteristics that gives it a unifying effect.  These can be man made or natural.

Utah’s Three Major Land Regions  Great Basin is part of the western desert. The bowl shape forms the Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake.  Rocky Mountain-includes the Uinta and Wasatch mountain Range. Has some of it’s own lake and reservoirs.  Colorado Plateau-Covers most of Utah. The runoff water of the plateaus run into the Colorado river. All 5 national parks are in this region.

Human made Regions  What are some regions that may not have any similar natural characteristics but have some sort of unity?