1. BELL RINGER 8/12/16 Pick up Bell Ringer sheet from tray
Submit Permission slips to white bin
What is latitude? How do we measure it?
What is longitude? How do we measure it?
What three continents does the Prime Meridian pass through?

2. 8/12/16
Objective: To understand and apply the basic themes of geography
Agenda
Bell Ringer
Themes of Geography notes
Apply the “Themes of Geography” to pictures of different cultures around the world.

3. Geography Textbook definition: Two Parts:
“The study of the physical features of the earth and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these physical features.”
Two Parts:
Physical geography
Human geography

6. Political Map

7. Physical Map

8. The Five Themes of Geography

9. Theme #1: Location Every place on Earth has a location.
There are two types of location:
Relative location
Absolute location

10. Relative Location The position of a place in relation to other places.
Example: Henry Clay High School is at the corner of Fontaine and Lakeshore Dr.
Louisville is west of Lexington.
Fred lives three houses down from Carol.
Relative location gives you an approximate location, not an exact location.

11. Absolute Location The exact spot on earth where something is found.
Example: Henry Clay High School is located at 2100 Fontaine Road, Lexington, Kentucky 40502
Your house address
Latitude/Longitude coordinates: Lexington, Ky = 38° N, 85° W

12. Theme #2: Place
Every place on earth has special characteristics that make it different from every other place.
Every place can be described in terms of its physical characteristics, including weather, land features, plants, and animals.

13. Theme #2: Place
Every place can be described in terms of its human features. These features include a place’s peoples, their culture, and their ideas.

14. Place Example
The Sahel is a hot and dry place along the southern edge of the Sahara in Africa. Overgrazing by animals and search for firewood by humans has stripped the Sahel of vegetation

15. Now its your turn!
You and a partner will pick one place (approved by me), to describe in two paragraphs with as much detail as possible. You may use your phones. (Don’t use Wikipedia!)

16. Theme #3: Human-Environment Interaction
How people and the environment interact.
People adapt to their environment.
Example: People who live in the Sahel wrap their heads with heavy material to keep the hot sun and sand out of their face

17. Theme #3: HEI People change their environment
Example: Developers bulldoze land and level the landscape for buildings and parking lots. Shoveling snow after a snow storm.

18. Theme #4: Movement Transportation of people, goods and ideas
Spatial Movement
The movement of people, goods, and ideas
People meet their needs either by traveling to other places or by trading with people in other places.

19. Spatial Movement Example
Open markets in the Sahel provide centers where herders and farmers can trade their goods.

20. Movement
As the amount of movement and the kinds of transportation change, so do other geographic features
Example: The movement of people into Alaska during the Gold Rush created a new make-up of people not common to Alaska.

21. Theme #5: Region An area with common characteristics.
Regions can be defined by more than one characteristic.
These characteristics can be physical, political, economic, or cultural.

22. Region Example
The Southwest United States can be defined as a arid desert region in North America because of its physical characteristics.
Many people in the Southwest U.S. speak both English and Spanish, so it also can be defined as a region by language.
The Southwest U.S. can be defined as a region by culture because there is a large Hispanic population near the U.S.-Mexico border.

23. Gulf- Persian Gulf

24. Gulf- Gulf of Mexico

25. Isthmus- Isthmus of Kra

26. Peninsula- Florida Peninsula

27. Island- Hvar

28. Strait- Strait of Gibraltar

29. Glacier
Prince William Sound, Alaska

30. Oasis

31. Plateau- Colorado Plateau

32. To review: Themes Explanation Location
Locations help people know where a certain place is located. Divided into absolute and relative location.
Place
Place helps people understand what a specific area is like. Place can have physical and human characteristics or features that humans have created such as cities, towns, and cultural traditions.
Movement
People, goods, and ideas move from one place to another. So do animals, plants, and other physical features of Earth.
Human-Environment Interaction
Humans interact with their environment in order to adapt and modify the world around us. Some places are the way they are because humans have altered them.
Region
Geographers group areas based on their physical and human characteristics. Refers to a less specific area than place.

33. Works Cited http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/design/images/earth.jpg
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34. 5 Themes of Geography Picture Analysis
There will be 11 pictures of families from different cultures and civilizations rotated around the room.
You will be looking at a picture with 1-2 other people at a time.
You will have 4 minutes per picture to record how each of the 5 Themes of Geography is present in the picture.
Make sure each answer has sufficient information.
Location
Place
Human Environment Interaction
Movement
Region