1. Objective: Students will be able to understand & apply the 5 themes of geography to actual locations of their choice

2. What is the location of a place?  Location can be described as a places position on the globe

3.  Latitude: imaginary lines running parallel to the Equator  Longitude: imaginary lines running north and south between the poles

4. Latitude Latitude The Equator is the imaginary line that splits the earth into 2 equal halves, or hemispheres between the north and south poles

5. ("World atlas.com," 2010) North Pole 0 ̊N South Pole 0 ̊S

6. Longitude lines, or meridians, run north and south between the poles Longitude Prime Meridian=0 ̊ through Greenwich, England Lines are measured east and west of Greenwich up to 180 ̊

7. ("Port cities london," 2004) (Gough, 2009)

8. What is the character of a place? Such as…?

9. Mountains, Climate, & Vegetation

10. Government Systems Economic Systems Population, Language, &Culture

11. How do people interact with their environment?  Have the people living in an area changed their environment? BuildingsBuild Roads Cut down trees

12. Destruction of Our Natural Resources… Forests Oceans ("The Role of," )

13. Progress & Innovation… Roads Buildings Efficiency ("Daily haha," 2007) (Sharp, 2008) (Turner, 2007 )

14. How do people, goods, & ideas move from place to place?  Transportation ◦ Railroad ◦ Roads, Highways ◦ Airports

15. Communication of ideas – Computers – Telephones/cell phones  All of these things make it easier to communicate & for both people & goods to travel from one place to another

16. How are places similar & different from one another? A Group of Places 1 Common Characteristic A REGION

17. Formal Regions -states, countries, cities -Places with specific boundaries Formal Regions -states, countries, cities -Places with specific boundaries Functional Regions -one central place and the surrounding places affected by it -A metropolitan area could consist of a large city plus its surrounding suburbs

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