1. Geography Handbook

2. The Five Themes

3. #1 -- Location
Relative Location Ex – Oklahoma is north of Texas. Ex - Distance
Exact Location: Using map coordinates (More on this later…)

4. #2 Place What makes a location unique? Physical Features
Human Features

5. #3 Region Describes an area of land with something in common.
Politics: America is a democracy
Climate: Texas Gulf Coast is humid
Language
Religion
Culture: way of life

6. #4 --Movement Information People and Goods Travel Trade
What are ways that movement is limited?
Internet
Radio and TV
Books and Newspapers
How has technology affected the movement of information?
Is this positive or negative?

7. #5 Interaction with Environment
How do humans deal with the world around them? How do weather cycles affect people? How does physical geography affect people?

10. REVIEW: How can we show location?
Relative Location:
An object’s location in relation to another object.
Absolute or Exact Location:
Location that is found using latitude and longitude.

11. Tools that geographers & students (and Waldo) use.

12. What do these show?
Compass Rose
Scale

13. What can these tell us?
Key
Title

14. What measures what? Latitude Longitude Imaginary lines
Run east and west
Measure distance north and south of the equator.
Imaginary Lines
Run north and south
Measures distance east
and west of the Prime
Meridian.

15. Hemispheres
North and South
East and West