1. Five Themes of Geography

2. What do Geographers Do?

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4. Five Themes of Geography

5. Location

6. Two Types of Location

7. Absolute Location Absolute: Latitude and Longitude
36° north and 45° east

8. Latitudes

9. North/South Hemispheres

10. Longitudes

11. East/West Hemispheres

12. Measurement

13. Relative Location
Relative: Describing where a place is by describing places near it.
South Carolina is north of Georgia and east of Tennessee.

14. Place

15. Two Features

16. Human features: The culture of a place.
Race, 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

19. Human- Environment Interaction
How people effect the environment and how the environment effects people.

20. Examples
Dams
Roads
Farms
Cities

21. Movement

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. Region

28. Region
An area that is unique. Geographers use regions to compare different areas.

29. Distinctive Characteristics

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

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

32. Perceptual Regions People see characteristics the same way.
Hill Country
Acadiana
The Midwest