1. Five Themes of Geography

2. What do Geographers Do?

4. Five Themes of Geography

5. Location
Where is it?

6. Two Types of Location

7. Absolute Location Absolute: Latitude and Longitude or an address
KCHS: Latitude 30º03’52.337” N Longitude: 95°29’30.833”W or Ella Blvd.

8. Relative Location
Relative: Describing where a place is by describing places near it.
KCHS – south of Schindewolf & west of Kreinhop.

9. Latitudes

10. North/South Hemispheres

11. Longitudes

12. East/West Hemispheres

13. Measurement

14. Place
What is it like?

15. Two Features

16. Human features: The culture of a place.
Religions, languages, governments, occupations, architecture, foods, clothing, etc.

17. Physical features: Things determined by nature.
Climate, indigenous plants, animals, land forms, types of soils, etc.

18. Human/Environment Interaction
How do people relate to the physical world?

19. Human- Environment Interaction
How people effect the environment and how the environment effects people.
People either adapt to their environment or they alter their environment

20. Examples Altering Examples Dams Roads Farms Cities Adapting Examples
Clothing
Food
Air conditioning

21. How do people, ideas, and products move from one location to another?
Movement
How do people, ideas, and products move from one location to another?

22. Movement
Movement of people, goods, and ideas from one place to another.

23. Everything Came From Somewhere

24. Linear Distance
How far do people, products and ideas travel from one location to another.

25. Time Distance
The amount of time it takes for a person/idea/good to travel from one location to another.

26. Psychological Time
The way people perceive distance.

27. How are areas similar or different?
Region
How are areas similar or different?

28. Region
Geographers use regions to compare different areas.

29. Distinctive Characteristics

30. Formal Regions Defined by a limited number of related characteristics.
Houston
Texas
USA
Africa

31. Functional Regions
Organized around a set of interactions and connections between places.
Think of a hub:
Downtown to Spring
Medical Center to Sugarland
Newspaper Distribution area

32. Perceptual Regions People see characteristics the same way.
Hill Country
The South
The Middle East