1. 5 Themes of Geography Location Place Human-Environment Interaction
Movement
Region

2. Movement The way people, goods, and ideas travel from place to place
Two examples:
Transportation
RR’s, roads, planes, sea routes
Communication
Books, newspapers, telephone, radio, TV, the Internet

3. Discussion Question #1 (Movement)
How might ideas have moved from one place to another hundreds of years ago?
Today?
Past: word of mouth, some form of printing
Today: books, magazines, telephone, the internet

4. Region Areas of the world that have something in common
Human characteristics
Political Region
Cultural Region
Economic Region
physical characteristics of a region
Natural Regions
Climatic Regions

5. Discussion Question #2 (Region)
What do you think might be some characteristics of the United States’ Southwest region?
Hot temperatures, little rainfall, deserts

6. Human-Environment Interaction
How people interact with their environment.
Two interactions occur:
Humans adapt to their natural environment
Hunting and fishing
Humans change environment to make life better and suit their needs
Cutting down forests to build homes

7. Discussion Question #3 (Human/Environment Interaction)
What steps would you take to adapt to your environment if you lived in Alaska?
Florida?
Alaska: wear warm clothes, live in heated home, buy a vehicle that could travel in snow.
Florida: wear cool clothes, live in an air-conditioned home.

8. Location Position or site on Earth where a feature is found Absolute:
Exact location of a place on Earth
Latitude & Longitude
Address
Relative:
Location of a feature in relation to other places

9. Discussion Question #4 (Location)
Why might sailors be interested in knowing absolute location?
In the middle of the ocean, there would be no way of telling where you are but by using longitude and latitude lines.

10. Place Describes a location’s features
Physical Features: those that occur naturally
Plant and animal life, landforms, elevation, climate, soil, and bodies of water
Cultural Features (Human Characteristics): created by human beings who live there
Number of people who live in a place, how close together people live, and how they make a living

11. Discussion Question #5 (Place)
What are the physical and cultural features of your neighborhood?
Possible answers:
Flat or hilly
Mild climate
Urban or rural

12. What is a geographer?
Someone who analyzes the Earth from many points of view.
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13. 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.
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14. However, the earth is round and a map is flat.
Because globes are not practical or easy to use to carry, flat maps were invented.
However, the earth is round and a map is flat.
Mapmakers had to find ways to make maps accurate.
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15. How Latitude and Longitude Form the Global Grid
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16. The Hemispheres
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17. Globes and Maps
The most accurate way to present information on the islands, continents, and bodies of water of the world is to put it all on a Globe, a round ball like the Earth itself.
The only difference between a globe and the Earth itself is the scale, or size, represented on the globe.
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18. Globes have a disadvantage
Globes have a disadvantage *They cannot be complete enough to be useful & at the same time be small enough to be convenient.
Therefore, people invented flat maps. Maps try to show the Earth, which is round, on a flat surface.
This causes distortion, or a change in accuracy of the shapes and distances of places.
It is impossible to show the Earth on a flat surface without some distortion.
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19. The Parts of a Map
Compass Rose- A compass rose is a model of a compass. It tells the cardinal directions, which are north, south, east, and west.
Scale- The scale on a map tells you the relative distance on the map to the real world. For example, a map’s scale may tell you that one inch on the map equals one mile in the real world.
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20. Key- The key, or legend, on a map explains what the symbols on a map represent
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