1. Location, regions, place, movement, human-environmental interaction
Themes of Geography
Location, regions, place, movement, human-environmental interaction

2. Location Where is it? Continent? Country? State? City?
Exact coordinates (latitude & longitude)

3. Where is New Orleans?

4. Regions Share at least one common feature
The world can be divided into many types of regions
Continents- Africa, Asia, Australia
Countries- Nigeria, Mali, Ghana, (West Africa)

5. States- California, Oregon, Washington
Cities- Minneapolis, St. Paul
Political regions

6. Place
Natural and human features that make one place different than every other place
Landforms- Grand Canyon, Mount Everest
Climate- Rain Forest, Deserts, Ice Caps
Plants- Cactus, Venus Fly Trap, Indigenous plants

7. Animals- Polar bears, lions, seals, rattle snakes
People- Zulu warriors, Celtic Clans
Language
Culture

8. Movement How do people, goods, and ideas move from place to place?
Silks from China
Pizza from Italy
Name something in America that originated in another country!

9. Human-Environment Interaction
Relationships between people and the environment
How people live, work, dress, travel, and communicate

10. Jacksonville, NC
Describe Jacksonville by using each of the five themes of geography
Location
Regions
Place
Movement
Interaction

11. Quick write
Use your notes to summarize what you have learned in a well written paragraph.
10 minutes

12. Movements of the Earth Page M2-M3
Location
Movements of the Earth
Page M2-M3

13. The Earth Revolves around the sun in a circular path called an orbit
Revolution- one complete orbit around the sun is 365 ¼ days (1 year)
Rotation- the Earth also spins on its axis and one rotation occurs in 24 hours

14. Hemispheres

15. Hemisphere Breakdown

16. The Seasons Earth’s axis is tilted at an angle
Sunlight strikes different parts of the Earth at different times in the year

17. Autumn Begins September 22or 23 Sun is directly overhead at Equator
Almost equal hours of sunlight and darkness

18. Winter Begins December 21 Sun directly overhead at Tropic of Capricorn
Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun

19. Spring Begins March 20 or 21 Sun is directly overhead at the Equator
Almost equal hours of sunlight and darkness

20. Summer Begins June 21 or 22 Sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer
Northern Hemisphere receives the greatest hours of sunlight

21. Critical thinking?
So does the sun rise in the east and set in the west?
No- the sun does not actually change positions
The Earth rotates on its axis so that different regions face the sun at different times of the day.

22. Understanding Globes

23. Globes Scale model of Earth Shows actual shapes, sizes, locations
Landforms
Bodies of water
Elevation
Depressions

24. World Divisions

25. Parallels of Latitude Latitude lines are imaginary horizontal lines
Equator
Tropic of Cancer 23.5ْ N
Tropic of Capricorn 23.5ْ S

26. Equator Halfway between North & South Poles 0ْ latitude
Divides Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres
“Earth’s Belt”

27. Meridians of Longitude
The globe divided along imaginary vertical lines
Prime Meridian- runs from North Pole to South Poles (0ْ longitude)
Divides East and West Hemispheres

28. Global Grids Latitude- North & South degrees (sides of maps)
Longitude- East & West degrees (top and bottom of maps)
* (1 degree latitude or longitude= ~69 miles or 111 kilometers)

29. Latitude/Longitude Practice
Latitude degrees only
Example (Page 464)
Mexico City
19ْ N

30. Latitude/Longitude Practice
Longitude degrees only
Example (page 464)
Lima, Peru
76ْ W

31. Try These Coordinates Page# Location Latitude Longitude 468 471 472
Quito, Ecuador
Buenos Aires, Argentina
471
Raleigh, NC
Houston, TX
472
Madrid, Spain
Istanbul, Turkey
474
Cape Town, South Africa
476
Sanaa, Yemen

32. Answers 468 Quito, Ecuador 1ْ S 78ْ W
Page# Location Latitude Longitude
468 Quito, Ecuador 1ْ S 78ْ W
468 Buenos Aires, Argentina 35ْ S 58ْ W
471 Raleigh, NC 37ْْ N 78ْ W
471 Houston, TX 29ْ N 95ْ W
472 Madrid, Spain 41ْ N 4ْ W
472 Istanbul, Turkey 42ْ N 28ْ E
474 Cape Town, South Africa 34ْ S 18ْ E
476 Sanaa, Yemen 15ْ N 45ْ E