1. Five themes of Geography
Location – Where a place is positioned.

2. Five themes of Geography
Location – Where a place is positioned.

3. Five themes of Geography
Location – Where a place is positioned.
There are two types of location.
Relative location uses things that a place is near to compare where two thing are.
Absolute location uses latitude and longitude to give a very precise place. Latitude lines are parallel with the equator. Longitude lines run north to south.
GPS is a way to give absolute location using satellites.

4. Five themes of Geography
Place – A location that has both distinct physical and human properties.
The Pascagoula facility of Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding – Gulf Coast is Mississippi’s largest private employer. An important aspect of “place geography” is human livelihoods.

5. Five themes of Geography
Place – A location that has both distinct physical and human properties.
A Mississippi cotton field. Mississippians engage in primary economic activities such as agriculture, fishing, timber, and mining.

6. Five themes of Geography
Human-Environment interaction – Describes how people use their surroundings.
Kudzu proved effective in preventing soil erosion, but its rapid and uncontrolled growth caused other problems.

7. Five themes of Geography
Movement – The ways people are linked to their regions, cultures, ideas, and locations.
A barge navigates a bend in the Mississippi River near Greenville, Mississippi. Major waterways provide for the movement of goods.

8. Five themes of Geography
Main drive at Camp Clinton

9. Five themes of Geography
POW barracks. Courtesy, Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby

10. Five themes of Geography
A German funeral at Camp Shelby for a prisoner of war who committed suicide.

11. Five themes of Geography
German POWs in their various uniforms at Camp Shelby. Light colors were desert troops in North Africa.

12. Five themes of Geography
German soccer team at Camp Shelby, 1944 champions.

13. Five themes of Geography
German POWs with “PW” painted on their pants legs.

14. Five themes of Geography
German POWs working in MS.

15. Five themes of Geography
Regions – The world is divided into these based upon characteristics.

16. Five themes of Geography
The Hills – northeast to west central MS.
2. The Delta – Rich farmland in the NW.
The Piney Woods – Southern MS
4. The Gulf Coast – borders the Gulf of Mexico.

17. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Geographers have divided the Earth into four spheres.

18. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Biosphere=where life grows

19. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Atmosphere = air

20. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Hydrosphere = water

21. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Lithosphere = outer shell of earth

22. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT Weather is the day-to-day conditions.
Mississippi has a very high humidity level. The humidity level is the ratio of moisture in the air.
Precipitation is rain, sleet, snow and hail.

23. Natural Hazards
Tornadoes are funnel-shaped storms that drop from clouds. They are classified by the Fujita scale (F1-F5).
Hurricanes are tropical storms that arise in the Atlantic Ocean. They have an eye and are classified by categories (1-5).

24. Water Resources
Surface water refers to water in lakes, ponds, rivers and the ocean.
Groundwater seeps into the earth by cracks in rocks. It is stored in rock formations called aquifers.

25. Water Resources
A drainage basin is the area that drains into a river or reservoir.
The MS River drains all of the interior USA.
It forms Mississippi’s western boundary.

26. Vicksburg Water Station
The Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg is the home of the Corp of Engineers and one of the top 15 supercomputer centers in the world. It studies way to prevent the river from flooding.