1. Geography
5 Themes of Geography

2. What is Geography?
The study of the Earth and of the ways people interact with it
Helps to explain why people live the way they do-discuss
Helps to answer questions about the past-discuss

3. Globes vs. Maps Globe- A scale model of the Earth
Map- a symbolic representation of all or part of the planet.

4. Physical Map Shows location of physical features Mountains Lakes
Rivers
Plains
Forests

5. Boundaries like counties, cities, countries
Political Map
Boundaries like counties, cities, countries

6. Determining Location-where?
Latitude- East to West
Longitude- North to South
The Global Grid- made up of crossing longitude and latitude.
Absolute Location

7. Absolute Location
Paris France is 48o North Latitude and 2o East Longitude.

8. Use the globe to find
the absolute location of a place you’d like to visit (write it on a whiteboard-place/latitude/longitude/name
You are Here

9. Relative Location
Described by landmarks, time, direction or distance. From one place to another.
Go 1 mile west on main street and turn left for 1 block.

10. Use Relative Location to
Tell someone how to get to your house from school OR
How to get somewhere from somewhere
On whiteboard

11. Discuss
Why does location matter?

12. Place-Physical Describes the place
Land, climate, bodies of water, animals
Climate

13. Place-Human-who lives there?
Languages, religions, populations, jobs are human characteristics
Holidays, customs
Food, sports

14. Human/Environment Interaction
Adapt to it
Modify it
Depend on it

15. Discuss How do people use and depend on the land?
How have they changed the land?
How has the land changed them?

16. Let’s look at a picture and
Talk about adapt, modify, depend?

17. Let’s record what we see (chart)
Adapt?
Modify?
Depend?

18. Movement-people, goods, ideas
Migration patterns of humans
What can you look for to prove that people have moved into an area?
What about moving out of an area?

19. Movement-ideas
How can you prove that ideas have been exchanged (moved)?

20. Movement-stuff-whiteboard
How do you know where an item was manufactured?
Let’s trace the movement of goods that resulted in a pencil getting to you.
Your phone
Your shirt

21. Regions-places grouped by what they have in common
Physical
Human (cultural)

22. Physical has to do with commonalities of land
Regions defined by similar characteristics (Corn Belt, Rocky Mountain region)

23. Human (cultural) What language is mostly spoken in this region?
What is the main religion?
Climate?
Traditons?

24. Remembering the 5 themes
If you can’t remembering what they are just ask MR. HELP!!!
M – Movement
R – Regions
HE – Human Environment interaction
L – Location
P - Place

25. Kahootz practice