1. The Five Themes of Geography 1.Location 2.Place 3.Human-Environment Interaction 4.Movement 5.Regions

2. Theme 1: Location Where is It? Why is It There? Two Types of Location Absolute Relative

3. Absolute Location A specific place on the Earth’s surface Uses a grid system Latitude and longitude A global address

4. Absolute Location - Longitude Measured in degrees E or W of the Prime Meridian (0° - runs through Greenwich, England) 0° and 180° do not use direction The distance between lines of Longitude is larger towards the Equator and they converge at the poles

5. Absolute Location - Longitude 69 miles 35 miles

6. Absolute Location - Latitude Measured in degrees N or S of the Equator (0° - runs around the “center” of the globe) North Pole = 90° N South Pole = 90° S 0° does not use direction The distance between all lines of Latitude is equal –Each degree is approximately 69 miles

7. Absolute Location Latitude and Longitude are measured in: Degrees ° - Minutes ’ - Seconds ” Great Valley High School Latitude 40°N 3’ 26.40” Longitude 75°W 34’ 3.14”

8. Relative Location Where a place is in relation to another place Often uses directional words to describe –Cardinal and intermediate directions

9. Relative Location The United States is bordered to its NORTH by Canada and to its SOUTH by Mexico The Atlantic Ocean forms the US EAST coast and the Pacific Ocean its WEST coast. The United States is in the WESTERN HEMISPHERE The US is in NORTH AMERICA

10. Theme 2: Place Place describes the human and physical characteristics of a location.

11. Theme 2: Place Physical Characteristics Physical characteristics include a description such things as the mountains, rivers, beaches, topography, and animal and plant life of a place.

12. Theme 2: Place Human Characteristics Human characteristics include the human-designed cultural features of a place, from land use and architecture, to forms of livelihood and religion, to food and folk ways, to transportation and communication networks.

13. Theme 3: Human Environment Interaction How People Interact With Their Environment People... Adapt to Their Environment Modify Their Environment Depend on Their Environment

14. Pennsylvania: Human Environment Interaction Adapt To Their Environment Kinzua Dam – Allegany Forest

15. Pennsylvania: Human Environment Interaction Modify Their Environment Schuylkill Canal - Phoenixville

16. Pennsylvania: Human Environment Interaction Depend on Their Environment Amish Farmer in Lancaster

17. Theme 3: Human Environment Interaction This can also result in NEGATIVE results

18. Theme 4: Movement The Mobility of People Goods Ideas How Places are linked to one another and the world

19. Pennsylvania: Movement

20. Theme 5: Regions What Places Have in Common Political Regions Landform Regions Agricultural Regions Cultural Regions

21. Theme 5: Regions Political Regions

22. Theme 5: Regions Landform Regions

23. Theme 5: Regions Agricultural Regions

24. Theme 5: Regions Cultural Regions Big 10 SEC