1. What is Geography?

2. What is Geography? Geography is the science of place and space.
Geographers ask where things are located on the surface of the earth, why they are located where they are, how places differ from one another, and how people interact with the environment.

3. Geography
Human World
Natural World

4. The Branches Mathematical Geography Human Geography Physical Geography
Studies the Earth’s surface as it is mapped
Human Geography
Studies the things that man does
Physical Geography
Studies the earth’s processes

5. The Five Themes of Geography
Location
Place
Human/Environment Interaction
Movement
Regions

6. Location Where are things located? A location can be absolute
Longitude and latitude [49 16N W] or an address
Or, it can be relative
It's next to the Cooper’s on HWY 33.

7. Location Latitude: Longitude:
The distance of any point north or south of the equator, measured up to 90 degrees.
Longitude:
The distance of any point east or west of the Prime Meridian, measured up to 180 degrees.

8. Place What makes a place different from other places? Flat land!
Mountains!

9. Place
Place refers to the physical and human features that are found on our earth
Physical: mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes
Human: cities, roads, dams, bridges

10. Human/Environment Interaction
How do people interact with and change their environment?
How humans react to their surroundings
We do it by:
a. adapting
b. modifying
c. depending
…on our environment

11. Adapting to our Environment
by building houses and other buildings for shelter
by organizing cities and towns near water and/or other resources we need
by building roads and bridges to get around
        
                                              
                                                      
                                                      

12. Modifying our Environment
by clear cutting, mining, building dams, and by mowing the lawn!
Anything we do to change the structure of our environment…

13. Depending on our Environment
For water, air, and natural resources we use

14. Movement
How are people and places linked by communication and the flow of people, ideas and goods?
Movement is the transportation of an object from one place to another
In geography, we move:
a. ideas
b. people
c. goods

15. Ideas Movement of ideas can be:
-Language: slang terms (phat), foreign words (jihad)
-Religion: Buddhism moved from India to China
-Music: rap music made its way from the American South

16. People People move across provinces, countries, and continents
They bring with them their
Beliefs (religious)
Culture (stories, songs, art)
Technology (tools, methods)

17. Goods Goods are things that can be bought and sold
Can be transported by sea, land and air
Examples:
Clothing
Cars
Textiles (food)
CD’s

18. Regions How can the Earth be divided into regions for study?
A region is an area where certain characteristics prevail.
Regions allow for geographers to organize information based on the Earth’s surface.

19. Regions Regions formed by human characteristics:
China town, Jerusalem
Regions formed by physical characteristics:
Rocky Mountains, Sahara Desert

20. Regions