1. WHAT IS GEOGRAPHY?

2. IT IS THE STUDY OF THE EARTH

3. Geography teaches us about the physical and human aspects of our world. Geography shows the relationship between people and the environment.

4. WHAT IS A GEOGRAPHER? Someone who analyzes the Earth from many points of view.

5. When geographers work, they are guided by two basic questions: 1)Where are things located? 2)Why are they there? To find these answers, geographers use five themes to organize information

6. THE FIVE THEMES: 1.Location – Geographers begin to study a place by finding where it is, or its location. 2.Place – Geographers study the physical and human features of a location. 3.Human-Environment Interaction – Geographers study how people affect or shape physical characteristics of their natural surroundings and how does their surroundings (environment) affect them?

7. 4.Movement – Helps explain how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another. 5.Regions – Geographers compare the climate, land, population, or history of one place to another.

8. THE GEOGRAPHER’S TOOLS Globes and Maps: As people explored the Earth, they collected information about it. Mapmakers wanted to present this information correctly. The best way was to put it on a globe, a round ball that represented the Earth.

9. Because globes are not practical or easy to use, flat maps were invented. However, the earth is round and a map is flat. Mapmakers had to find ways to make maps accurate Lines of Longitude and Latitude

10. Longitude Latitude

12. Equator Tropic of Cancer Tropic of CapricornPrime Meridian

14. Equator

16. THE HEMISPHERES

17. CONTINENTS (AT NIGHT)

18. CONTINENTS

19. NORTH AMERICA

20. SOUTH AMERICA

21. EUROPE

22. AFRICA

23. ASIA

24. OCEANIA

25. ANTARCTIC

26. OCEANS

27. MOUNTAIN RANGES

29. WHAT IS THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN?

30. WHAT IS THE TALLEST MOUNTAIN Mauna Kea, Hawaii

31. WHAT IS THE TALLEST MOUNTAIN?

32. TALLEST MOUNT (KNOWN) IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM – OLYMPUS MONS, MARS

33. OLYMPUS MONS

34. WATERFALLS Tallest Angel Falls, Venezuela Largest (volume) Inga Falls, Nigeria 1,500,000 cfs (Niagara =85,000 cfs)

35. MAJOR RIVERS

36. MAJOR RIVERS – NORTH AMERICA

37. MAJOR RIVERS – SOUTH AMERICA

38. MAJOR RIVERS - EUROPE

39. MAJOR RIVERS - AFRICA

40. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Maori, New Zealand

41. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Zulu, South Africa

42. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Khoisan, Botswana

43. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Aborigine, Australia

44. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Samoan, Pacific Islands

45. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Ndebele, South Africa

46. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Inca, Peru

47. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Hopi, USA

48. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Greek

49. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Russian, Russia

50. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Vietnamese, Vietnam

51. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Afghani, Afghanistan

52. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Pakistani, Pakistan

53. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD