1. Geography

4. 5 Themes of Geography Location Place Region Movement
Absolute
Relative
Place
Cultural characteristics
Physical characteristics
Region
Movement
Human and Environment Interaction

5. Location Absolute Relative address 555 Trojan Trail Glasgow, KY 42141
latitude/longitude
37ºN; 85°W
Relative
What is it located near?
Barren County is near Warren County

6. Could you create a map that shows the route you traveled from your house to BCMS?

7. Place Hola Hello Cultural Characteristics Physical Characteristics
Kinds of houses, means of transportation, recreational activities, jobs, languages, and religion
Physical Characteristics
Climate, soil, plant life, animal life, bodies of water

8. Region Areas that have similar unifying characteristics
Grass looks Blue
Largest caves
Smallest of the regions
2/3rds of coal in KY
Gateway to the West
Highest elevation

9. Native Americans in Alaska wear different clothes, have different architecture, and have different lifestyles than the Native Americans in Florida.
Describe a favorite city, state, or country. How does the physical characteristics in the place influence the customs?
Do hurricanes influence a region’s population and economy?

10. Movement
The movement of people, the import and export of goods, and mass communication

11. What places did your ancestors leave in order to settle in the US
What places did your ancestors leave in order to settle in the US? Why do you think they moved to America?

12. Human and Environment Interaction
Humans adapt, depend, and modify the environment.

13. What are some more examples of ways that humans use and modify the environment in places in which they live?

14. Look at page 6 of your Glencoe book.
How does geography influence where businesses such as gas stations and malls are built?
Look at page 6 of your Glencoe book.

15. Homework due Tuesday
Illustrate the 5 themes of geography

16. Latitude and Longitude

18. Lines of Latitude and Longitude are measured in terms of degrees.
Degrees (°) are divided into minutes.
Minutes symbol is ΄.
There are 60 minutes in a degree.
Latitude degrees are N and S.
0° to 90°N/S
Longitude degrees are E and W.
0° to 180°W/E

20. Lines of Latitude are called parallels.

21. 180° longitude = International Date Line
Lines of longitude are called meridians.

23. Two ways for a cartographer to map:
Globe – 3D; has height, depth, and width
Map – 2D

24. Comparing Globes and Maps
Which is more accurate?
Globe, because it is shaped like the earth.
Only accurate way to draw earth is a sphere.
Which is easier to read?
Map
Because they show more about the world’s people

25. Different Types of Maps
General purpose – shows a wide range of general information
Physical map – shows natural features
Political map – shows places that people have created
Special-purpose – shows information on specific topics

26. Mercator Projection- shows accurate land shapes but not accurate size and distance Most popular; Most incorrect; distorted; Greenland and Alaska are huge on the map.

28. Interrupted Projection – Mercator’s as a cut-up sphere; shows size more accurate but difficult to calculate distances

29. Robinson projection – gives fairly accurate view of most sizes, shapes, and directions; shows a fairly accurate picture of the relationship between land masses and water; used more than the interrupted

30. Landforms and Water

31. Tributaries small waterways that feed into larger waters i. e
Tributaries small waterways that feed into larger waters i.e. creeks into rivers

32. Topography study of the surface; “top” of the earth
Elevation – height above sea level
Relief – difference in height

35. CLIMATE

37. Exit Slip: Match the description to the correct term
Address Culture Manmade lake
Similar characteristics Immigration States outlined
landforms defined Population map
Like a flatten globe correct sizes and shapes
accurate shapes but not sizes
Mercator Special Purpose
Interrupted Location
Robinson Place
Physical Region
Political Movement
11. Human/Environment Interaction