1. What is Geography and what are the Five Themes?

2. DEFINITION OF GEOGRAPHY
ge·og·ra·phy 1 : a science that deals with the description, distribution, and interaction of the diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth's surface. Source-Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary 2

3. What does that mean in YOUR words?
Why do we care?

4. Geography is the study of the earth and everything on it.
IN PLAIN ENGLISH
Geography is the study of the earth and everything on it. 4

5. The Five Themes of Geography-MR. HELP
Movement
Regions
Human-Environment Interaction
Location
Place

6. What is the purpose of the Five Themes?
Geography is a broad discipline…
By dividing it into smaller “chunks” geographers can…
organize and
analyze
More informed manner this way

7. Movement How are people and places connected?”
How people are connected to other regions, cultures, and people in the world? Examples?
Travel
Communication
Social Media
Where resources are located?
Who needs them?
How they are transported?

8. MOVEMENT - Examples
How are people, goods, ideas moved from place to place?
Human Movement
Trucks, Trains, Planes
Information Movement
Phones, computer ( ), mail
Idea Movement
How do fads move from place to place?
TV, Radio, Magazines

9. “How are places alike and different?”
Region
“How are places alike and different?”
An area on the earth’s surface that is defined by certain unifying characteristics.
Unifying characteristics may be physical or cultural.
Also study how a region changes over times.
Geographers divide the world into manageable units for study...

10. Three Types of Regions Formal regions Functional regions
Defined by governing agencies or by physical regions.
Cannot be changed
EXAMPLE:
Functional regions
When all places within share a service. If the service/function ends, the region no longer exists.
Perceptual regions
Defined by people’s preconceived images- and may often be inaccurate!

11. What kind of region?

12. What kind of region?

13. What kind of region?

14. What kind of region?

17. HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION
How do humans and the environment affect each other?
We depend on it.
How? (Examples)
We modify it.
We adapt to it.

18. HEI Answers… “How do humans and the earth affect each other?”
Studying consequences of HEI helps people plan and manage the environment responsibly.
Can be positive OR negative!

19. Louisiana Wetlands before and after19

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21. Dubai – Before and After

22. The World, Dubai

26. LOCATION -Where are we? Absolute Location Relative Location
A latitude and longitude (global location) or a street address (local location).
Paris France is 48o North Latitude and 2o East Longitude.
The White House is located at Pennsylvania Ave.
Relative Location
Described by landmarks, time, direction or distance. From one place to another.
Go 1 mile west on main street and turn left for 1 block.
You are Here

27. Absolute Location
Determined by imaginary grid of lines called latitude and longitude.
Latitude = Fatitude
Longitude = Looooong
Latitude= runs north & south of the equator.
Longitude= runs east & west of the prime meridian.
Geographers use latitude and longitude to pinpoint a place’s absolute, or exact, location.

28. Relative Location
How is the site related to other places. Geographers call this relative location.
Deals with interactions that occur between and among places
It refers to the many ways—land, water, even technology—that places are connected.
EXAMPLE:

29. What is it like there, what kind of place is it?
IT PAINTS A PICTURE!!!!
Physical Characteristics
Landforms (mountains, rivers, etc.), climate, vegetation, wildlife, soil, etc.
Human Characteristics
What are the main languages, customs, and beliefs?
How many people live, work, and visit a place?

30. Example
The Great Pyramid of Giza has sand that stretches to the horizon accompanied by the scorching heat, and yet the pyramid stands out amongst it all.

32. Remembering the 5 themes
If you can’t remembering what they are just ask MR. HELP!!!
M – Movement
R – Regions
HE – Human Environment interaction
L – Location
P - Place