1. Unit 1: GEOGRAPHY

2. THE STUDY OF THE EARTH and THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE…

3. FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY

4. 5 Themes Location Place Human-Environmental Interaction Movement Regions

5. LOCATION: Where is it? ABSOLUTE LOCATION (mathematical location) –THE EXACT POINT WHERE A PLACE OR PHYSICAL FEATURE IS LOCATED ON THE EARTH’S SURFACE –Examples: LATITUDE (parallels) & LONGITUDE (meridians), MAP POINTS, ADDRESS…..

7. RELATIVE LOCATION (situation) DESCRIBES THE LOCATION OF A PLACE IN RELATIONSHIP TO ANOTHER PLACE Examples: Cardinal/Intermediate directions, landmarks, words like “near the….”, or turn right at, left LOCATION: Where is it?

8. Questions 1. What is the difference between absolute and relative location? 2. Describe GWCP’s relative location.

9. PLACE: What is it like? What are the physical and human/cultural characteristics of this place? Climate, Vegetation, Land/water forms, Resources/industries, People and cultures.... Toponym – place names

11. REGIONS Grouping of places that have something in common and can be given a name based on similar features. -What is an example of a region?

12. Types of Regions Formal (uniform) regions –Example: Montana Functional (nodal) regions –Example: the circulation area of a newspaper Perceptual (vernacular/cultural) regions –Example: the American South

13. The Gulf Coast Region

14. Questions 3. Apply the theme of place to your neighborhood 4. Which type of region do you think is most helpful when learning about a new place? 5. What are some examples of a perceptual region?

15. MOVEMENT How and why do people, ideas, products, and events such as disease move from one place to another?

16. Movement - The connections and relations that develop among places and regions as a result of the movement or flow of people, goods, or information Transportation networks Electronic communications

17. Diffusion The process by which a characteristic spreads across space and over time Hearth = source area for innovations Two types of diffusion –Relocation –Expansion Three types: hierarchical, contagious, stimulus

18. EXAMPLES Exploration and trade routes Transportation methods / routes Cultural borrowing/diffusion Patterns of settlement Spread of disease (plague) Migration/immigration

19. Before After

20. Questions 9. Economic development through international trade is an example of what type of diffusion? Explain your choice. 10. The spread of a new fashion first in large cities, and later to smaller towns is an example of which type of diffusion?

21. HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION How do people adapt to and/ or change their environment? This includes the impact of physical processes like hurricanes, floods, drought…

22. EXAMPLES: Wearing cool clothing in hot weather (adapt) Building the ship channel to connect Houston to the Gulf of Mexico (modify) Dams and bayou flood control projects (modify) Using adobe bricks in the dry, desert areas of Texas (adapt) Air-conditioning (modify)....

23. We depend on our environment We adapt to the environment We modify the environment