1. Five Themes of Geography

2. Geographer’s Questions
Where are things located?
Why are they located there?
Why care?

3. Absolute Location Relative Location Location: What is it? Latitude
Longitude
Relative Location
Where a place is located in relationship to other places

4. Location: How is it used?
It answers the question “Where are things located?”

5. Regions: What is it?
Divides the world into areas that have at least one common characteristic that separates it from the surrounding areas

6. Regions: How is it used?
Used to make comparisons by dividing the world into different region based on political divisions, physical features, cultural characteristics, or many other types of characteristics

7. Climatic Region

8. Appalachian Region

9. Sonoran Desert
Region

11. Describes the physical and human characteristics of a site
Place: What is it?
Describes the physical and human characteristics of a site

12. Place: How is it used?
Used to describe the physical characteristics as nature created (mountains, rivers, soil, beaches)
Used to describe the human characteristics of the people who live in an area (buildings, roads, clothing, work people do)

16. Place

17. Your Community
Physical Features
Human Features

18. C ubs make the bleacher bums cheer, afternoons at Wrigley Field
H ot dogs on every corner from Bridgeport to Evanston
I nland body of water called Lake Michigan
C onnects the city to the waters of the wide world
A ssembler, retailer, railroader, meatpacker, banker
G reat buildings like the Sears Tower, Shedd Aquarium, Hancock Center, Soldier Field
O riginally flowing into Lake Michigan, the Chicago River now flows to the Mississippi River Basin

19. The way people, goods, and ideas travel from place to place
Movement: What is it?
The way people, goods, and ideas travel from place to place

20. Movement: How is it used?
Used to help geographers understand the relationship among places
Looks at all types of movement and the effects they have on the people

26. Interaction: What is it?
Refers to the way the earth appears as a result of how humans have changed it

27. Interaction: What is it?
Humans adapt to the environment
Humans modify the environment
Humans depend on the environment

28. Interaction: How is it used?
Used to describe how humans interact with the environment – what changes have been made to the environment because of humans

29. Mountain top Removal Coal Mining

30. Palm Island - Djoubti

31. Changes in Dubai
Images of Dubai

33. Which Theme?
Describes how people, goods, and ideas move from place to place
Refers to how people use their environment and how the environment affects the lives of people
is used to describe how an area has at least one common characteristic
describes where you are on a map using latitude and longitude
includes the physical features of an area andthe human features of an area
describes where a place is located in relationship to other places

34. Match ‘Em Up
_____ The Great Plains used to be a wide open area with no settlements or farms. Today towns and cities dot the Great Plains, and much of the land is used for farming.
_____ Areas that receive very little rainfall are called deserts.
_____ Texas is south of Oklahoma.

35. Match ‘Em Up
____ Hawaii is made up of islands, and it offers a variety of tourist attractions.
_____ Goods are shipped in large tractor-trailer trucks across interstate highways.
_____ Maine has many different economic areas, including heavy forests and tourist areas.

36. Match ‘Em Up
_____ The country of Guam is at 13o N latitude and 145o E longitude.
_____ One way to communicate information is to write letters to our friends and relatives.
_____ The building of new houses on areas that had always been forests frequently makes it difficult for animals to find homes.

37. Match ‘Em Up
_____ Swiss chalets and high mountains called the Alps are two of the ways we can identify the country of Switzerland.

38. Other things to remember:
Label the 7 continents and 4 oceans
What is located at 0o latitude?
What is located at 0o longitude?
What is the latitude of the North Pole? South Pole?
What is located at 180o longitude?
What is the relative location of Brandon?