1. Do Now!
Make a list of any country that you know of… without your neighbor!!!!!!

3. Chapter 1
What is Geography??????

4. The Basics of Geography
Geography- the study of everything on Earth
From rocks and rainfall to people and places
Geographers-people who study geography
How natural environment influences people, how people affect the Earth, and how the world changes

5. Perspective and Landscapes
Geographers use these two to study the world
Perspective: the way a person looks at something
Landscape: Scenery of a place
What is your perspective of Richland?
What is the landscape of Richland?

6. Two Main Branches: Human and Physical
Human Geography: people study the distribution and characteristics of the world’s people
Where they live, work, and ways of life
Physical Geography: focuses on Earth’s natural environment
Landforms, water features, atmosphere, animals, plants, etc…..
These two branches link together by how people interact with their environment

7. Who uses geography?? YOU DO!!
How you choose to get to and from school, hear about other countries, watch the news, use your phone…
Most jobs require the use of geography:
Restaurant owner?
Politician?
Clerk at gas station?

8. What helps us use geography
Cartography: the study of maps and mapmaking (cartographer)
Meteorology: the study of weather (meteorologists)

9. Region an area with one or more common features that make it different from surrounding areas
Regions are defined by their human and physical features
Languages, religions; climate, soils
Regions can have both set boundaries and unclear boundaries
Example:
Set boundary: United States
Unclear boundary: Tornado Alley
Can be any size and can be divided into smaller areas called subregions.

10. Types of Regions
Formal- one or more common features that make it different from surrounding areas
Based on any feature or combination of features
Physical, economical, etc….

11. Functional- Different places that are linked together and function as a unit
City transit system, shopping malls, big cities with suburbs

12. Perceptual-reflect human feelings and attitudes
“Back home” easy to know but hard to define exactly
Dixie: seen in different ways

13. 5 Themes of Geography
Location-exact(absolute) or relative spot of something
Place- physical and human features of a location
Human-Environmental Interaction-how people and environments interact
Movement- How people and things change locations and the effects of the changes
Region-organizes Earth in geographic areas

14. Organizing the Globe Latitude Longitude Meridians Parallels
Hemispheres
Continents

15. Latitude Runs East-West Measures distance North- South of equator
Also called parallels

16. Longitude Runs North-South
Measures distance East-West of Prime Meridian
Also called Meridians

17. Measure distances in Degrees and Minutes Latitude= 0-90 N/S
Longitude= E/W
Globe is also organized into Hemispheres (4)
Equator divides globe into North and South Hemisphere
Prime Meridian divides globe into Eastern and Western Hemispheres

18. Also organized into Continents

19. Understanding Maps Atlas- collection of maps in one book Scale
Directional Indicators
Legends
Other Elements

20. Can you spot them?

21. Different types of Maps
Climate
Precipitation
Population
Resources/Land Use
Elevation Maps
Climate Graphs
Population Pyramids

23. Map Activity: Write and Answer the following questions
Tell where the location of the scale is.
Name and give symbols of 5 things located in the legend.
What two states are included on this map?
What river separates the two states listed in #3?
What is this a map of?
In what quadrant is Lee Field Airborne Drop Area located?
What 2 interstates run through 5’E, 81’S
Give the coordinates of an area with a pond, identify the pond as well.
Give the coordinates for the city of Wynnton.
Find a multiple track railroad and give the coordinates.