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Five Themes of Geography
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What do Geographers Do?
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Five Themes of Geography
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Location
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Two Types of Location
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Absolute Location Absolute: Latitude and Longitude
36° north and 45° east
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Latitudes
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North/South Hemispheres
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Longitudes
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East/West Hemispheres
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Measurement
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Relative Location Relative: Describing where a place is by describing places near it. South Carolina is north of Georgia and east of Tennessee.
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Place
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Two Features
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Human features: The culture of a place.
Race, religions, languages, governments, occupations, architecture, foods, clothing, etc.
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Physical features: Things determined by nature.
Climate, indigenous plants, animals, land forms, types of soils, etc.
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Human/Environment Interaction
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Human- Environment Interaction
How people effect the environment and how the environment effects people.
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Examples Dams Roads Farms Cities
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Movement
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Movement Movement of people, goods, and ideas from one place to another.
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Everything Came From Somewhere
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Linear Distance How far do people, products and ideas travel from one location to another.
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Time Distance The amount of time it takes for a person/idea/good to travel from one location to another.
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Psychological Time The way people perceive distance.
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Region
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Region An area that is unique. Geographers use regions to compare different areas.
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Distinctive Characteristics
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Formal Regions Defined by a limited number of related characteristics.
North Texas USA Africa Europe
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Functional Regions Organized around a set of interactions and connections between places. Think of a hub: Downtown to Spring Medical Center to Sugarland
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Perceptual Regions People see characteristics the same way.
Hill Country Acadiana The Midwest
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