1. Geography

2. What is geography?
Geography is the study of the world, its people, and the landscapes they create.
Geographers use geographic tools to look at the world in different ways.

3. Physical vs. Human
Physical geography is the study of the world’s features – its landforms, bodies of water, climates, soils, and plants.
Reasons to study physical geography:
Learn how the world works/better understand it
To help us learn of the Earth’s changes and dangers to be prepared for them
*THE EARTH’S CHARACTERISTICS*

4. Physical vs. Human
Human geography is the study of the world’s people, communities, and landscapes.
Human geographers
Study the world’s people, past and present
Look at where people live and why
Study what people do
*THE STUDY OF HOW HUMAN LIFE SHAPES LANDSCAPES AND REGIONS*

5. Five Themes of Geography
The five themes of geography help us organize our studies of the world.
Geographers use themes that can be applied to nearly everything that they study.
Location
Place
Human – Environment Interaction
Movement
Regions

6. Location Every point on Earth has a location.
*Describes where something is.*
ABSOLUTE LOCATION is a specific description of where a place is, such as an address (or a place’s Latitude and Longitude).
RELATIVE LOCATION is a general description of where a place is (in relation to another place).

8. The Simpson County Courthouse is located downtown Franklin, KY.

9. Place
Place refers to an area’s landscape, the features that define the areas and make it different from other places.
Physical: landforms, climate, wildlife
Human: population, ethnicity, religion
*Place describes the features that make a site unique.*

11. Bowling Green, KY, the town bordering Simpson County to the north, has many tourist attractions that are significant to this area.

12. Human – Environment Interaction
An area’s environment includes its land, water, climate, plants, and animals.
Geographers study how people interact with their environment .
Examples:
Farming
Fishing
Coal mining

13. People interact with their environments in many ways
People interact with their environments in many ways. Some use the land to grow crops.
. . . Crops like this baby watermelon in my garden 

14. Movement
Study of why and how people move, including roads and routes that make movement common.
This theme looks at how and why people and things move.
Examples:
Shipping
Social media
People, ideas, goods, information

16. Regions Geographers divide the world into regions.
Regions are areas that share common characteristics (unity) that set them apart from areas around them.
Examples:
Culture
Plant life
Agriculture

17. “South Central Kentucky” Karst System
Karst is a landscape formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks including limestone, dolomite and gypsum. It is characterized by sinkholes, caves, and underground drainage systems.

19. “The South”, y’all!!!