1. THE FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY
THE WORLD OF GEOGRAPHY
THE FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY

2. YOU SHOULD KNOW THESE… Why is geography important?
How is geography used?
List the 7 continents
List the 4 oceans
Which two oceans touch the United States?

3. KEY TERMS GEOGRAPHY LATITUDE PRIME MERIDIAN PARALLEL MERIDIAN DEGREE
LONGITUDE
EQUATOR
EAST-WEST CIRCLES AROUND THE GLOBE
0 DEGREES LONGITUDE, RUNS THROUGH GRENWICH ENGLAND
STUDY OF THE EARTH, OUR HOME
UNIT OF MEASURE TO DETERMINE ABSOLUTE LOCATION
IMAGINARY LINES THAT RUN NORTH TO SOUTH ON THE GLOBE
0 DEGREES LATITUDE
ANOTHER NAME FOR LINES OF LATITUDE
ANOTHER NAME FOR LINES OF LONGITUDE

4. Geographers are important because…
They analyze the earth from many viewpoints.
How earth and people affect one another
Oceans, plant life, landforms, people

5. The Dynamic Duo Geographers are guided by two questions…
1. Where are things located?
2. Why are they there?

6. The Fab Five! Location Place Human-Environment Interaction Movement
Regions
The Five Themes of Geography
Used by geographers to organize information

7. Location Location – where something is Two types of location Absolute
A places exact position on earth
Relative
Describing where something is by describing places nearby

8. Location Absolute Location Also known as a geographic address
Identified by using lines of latitude and longitude
Latitude: 90 degrees north – 90 degrees south
Longitude: 0 degrees – 180 degrees
Where is the equator? What two hemispheres does it create?
Where is the prime meridian? What two hemisphere does it create?

9. Location Relative Location
explains where a place is by describing places nearby.
Example:
Swansboro is about 15 miles from Jacksonville.

10. A quick review What are the four hemispheres of the earth?
The United States is located in which hemisphere?
The equator creates which two hemispheres?
The prime meridian creates which two hemispheres?
Lines of latitude measure what?
Lines of longitude measure what?
What is relative location? Give an example
What is absolute location? Give an example

11. Now that you know all about location…..

12. We’re moving onto Place!

13. Place Describes a location’s physical and human features
Examples of physical features:
Climate is hot or cold
Land is hilly
Examples of human features:
Population of a place
What kinds of work people do at this place

14. Human-Environment Interaction
How do people affect their environment
Physical characteristics of natural surroundings
How environments affects us
What would be an example of each?

15. Human-Environment Interaction
Also used to describe consequences of peoples actions
Example: Build a canal to irrigate farmland
good side: region has more food
bad side: irrigation causes salt to build up in soil.
farmers must treat soil to get rid of salt
food becomes more expensive

16. Quick Review
Place describes which to features of a location? Give an example of each.
Give an example of how people in the community affect the following:
Air
Water
Land
wildlife

17. Three down…… Two to go!

18. Movement
Explains how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another

19. Regions Regions: used to make comparisons Characteristics of regions:
Climate
Land
Characteristics
History
U.S. Regions: Coastal Lowlands, Appalachian Highlands, Interior Plains, Rocky Mountains, Western Plateaus, Basins, and Ranges, and Pacific Ranges and Lowlands

20. Regions On maps, Geographers use: Colors Shapes Special regions
All to show regions!
A place can be part of several regions at the same time

21. A look back… What are the Fab Five? (themes of geography)
What are regions used for?
Explain two ways movement has affected the United States.