1. What is Geography? GEO means Earth
The "ography”—Greek word meaning to write about something.
Thus GEO + GRAPHY literally means "to write about the Earth.”
Geography is the study of Earth and its peoples, places, and environments.

2. Geography Geographers Look at people and the world in which they live
In terms of place and space
Where people live on Earth
Why they live there
How they interact with each other and the physical environment

3. Thinking Spatially Thinking Spatially
Spatial refers to Earth’s features in terms of their locations, their shapes, and their relationships to one another.

4. Perspective of Place
Locations on Earth are made up of different combinations of physical and human characteristics.
Physical features
Climate
Landforms
Vegetation
Combine with human features
Population
Economic activity
land use
Combine to create places

5. Perspective Geography Experience everyday Live in world
Changing seasons
Hear sounds

6. A Changing World Earth is dynamic People always changing Geographers
Study how places change over time?
What impact those changes have?
What factors made a city grow?
What effect did a growing city have on the people who live there?
What effect did the city’s growth have on nearby communities and on the land and water near it?

7. 5 Themes of Geography

8. Location Describes where something is on earth.
Absolute location: exactly where a place is located. (i.e. latitude and longitude)
Relative location: a place in relation to another place. (i.e. it is near, above, west of, etc.)

9. Place The physical and human characteristics of a place.
Physical characteristics - terrain, height above sea level, landforms and climate.
landscapes—portions of Earth’s surface that can be viewed at one time from one location
Human characteristic – population

10. Region The similarities you may find in a place.
Can include language, culture and similar historical background.

11. Movement
How people, goods, information and culture got to a particular place.

12. Human-Environment Interaction
How humans have changed a particular place (such as through canals, highways, etc.)
How humans adapt to the environment around them (like wearing jackets in cold climates).