1. Chapter 1 Looking at the Earth

2. The Five Themes of Geography
Geography: the study of the distribution and interaction of physical and human features on the earth
Why Study Geography

3. The Five Themes of Geography
Location
Place
Region
Movement
Human-Environment Interaction
5 Themes

4. Location Where is it?
Absolute Location
Exact place on earth where a geographic feature is found
Hemispheres: North, South, East, West
Equator
Prime Meridian

5. Absolute Location Latitude Lines Run parallel to equator
North latitude or South latitude
Longitude Lines
Run perpendicular to equator
Mark East or West
Longitude/Latitude

6. Location Relative Location
Describes how a place is related to its surrounding environment

7. Place What is it like?
Includes physical features and cultural characteristics
Description of a place may change over time

8. Region How are places similar or different?
Formal Regions
Defined by limited number of related characteristics
U.S.A and Canada, Latin America, South Asia

9. Region Functional Regions
Organized around set of interactions and connections between places
City and its suburbs

10. Region How are places similar or different?
Perceptual Regions
People perceive the characteristics of region in the same way
-American Midwest

11. Human-Environment Interaction How do people relate to physical world?
Learn to use what environment offers them
Change environment to meet their needs

13. Human-Environment Interaction
Learn to live with certain aspects of environment
People respond to same environment in different ways

14. Montreal underground

15. Movement
How do people, goods and ideas move from one location to the other?
Linear Distance
How far across the earth something travels

16. Movement Time Distance Amount of time it takes to travel
Psychological Distance
Way people view distance

17. The Geographer’s Tools
Maps, globes, and data
3 kinds of maps
General reference map
Thematic map
Navigation map
Countries of the World