1. Intro to human geography
Mr Kuhn

2. What is human geography
Geo: Earth
Graphy: To Write
Created by Greek Scholar Eratosthenes (276BC- 194BC)
Physical Geography:
Looks at the natural processes of the Earth, such as climate and plate tectonics
Human Geography:
Looks at the impact and behaviour of people and how they relate to the physical world
While the two are separated for simplification, it is important to understand that they are both interconnected and inseparable in the big picture

3. What human geographers study
Culture
How things like religion, language and government vary across the world
Development
Standards of living and quality of life across the world
Population
How populations grow in different places and people migrate
Urban Development
Cities and built-up areas

4. The Five themes of geography
Because geography is such a broad and expansive subject it has been broken down into five simple themes
The Five Themes of Geography are:
Location
Place
Human Environment Interaction
Movement
Regions

5. The Five themes of geography: Location
Location is defined as a particular place or position
There are two types of location
Absolute: Defined by latitude and longitude or some form of exact address
Example: Sardis Secondary’s location is Stevenson Road
Relative Location: When describing an area in broad terms or in relation to another place
Example: Sardis Secondary is about 2 minutes away from Tim Hortons

6. The Five themes of geography: Place
Place refers to the physical and human aspects of a location
While location refers to a GPS where something is, place describes the area
Characteristics make include the physical land features of the place, climate and weather, or human qualities such as quality
Geographers use place to compare and contrast different locations

7. The Five themes of geography: Human Environment Interaction
More than any other species, humans and the environment impact each other immensely
Humans depend on the environment in order to habituate in an area, farm, create clothing, hunt, and create cities
Furthermore, humans have affected the environment in negative ways such as climate change, over pollution, and mass extinctions of animals
The relationship between the two goes both ways and is crucial to the study of geography

8. The Five themes of geography: Movement
Movement refers predominately to the movement of humans
Movement can be broken down into three main aspects
The Movement of People Themselves: Immigration and Emigration
The Movement of Goods: Trade and the Economy
The Movement of Ideas and Thoughts

9. The Five themes of geography: Regions
A region is an area composed of places with unifying physical or human characteristics
There are three types of regions
Formal Region: A region whose boundaries are formally defined
Functional Region: Usually encompasses a central point with defined boundaries and the affected areas around it
Vernacular Region: When closely placed in the world have unifying characteristics, we tend to imagine these places bound by an “imaginary border”

10. Today in the text….. The Core Concepts of Geography
Classifications of locations
Classifications of regions
Classifications of diffusion
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