1. DOG
Daily Oral Geography

2. What is Geography?
Study of where things are on Earth, why they are there, and their relationships to people, things, or other places
Who are geographers?
Study where things are and why
Use THE FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY to learn about the world

3. FIVE THEMES of GEOGRAPHY 1. LOCATION
Our position on Earth’s surface
Absolute Location: tells exactly where something is located
109 Third Street
49°N, 25°W
Relative Location: tells where something is located in relation to a place you already know
Five blocks north of the high school
Globe: small model of our round-shaped planet Earth
Map: flat representation of Earth
Latitude Longitude = grid

4. MAPS Grids - marked with numbers and letters Direction
Scale 1” = 35 miles 1 cm = 20 km
Keys/Legends - tell what the symbols mean
Title

5. Map Projections
Map projections distort landforms

6. Types of Maps
Political: shows location of countries, states, and provinces with boundary lines of governments (can change) Physical: location of an area’s physical features - rivers, lakes, mountains, plateaus, valleys, seas (don’t change much)

7. used to describe the cultural and natural features
2. PLACE
used to describe the cultural and natural features
Physical Characteristics: landforms, vegetation, and climate combine in different ways to give a place unique physical characteristics. Physical characteristics include the following:
* Oceans: largest water masses on earth
* Pacific Ocean
* Atlantic Ocean
* Indian Ocean
* Arctic Ocean
*Seas
*Mediterranean Sea
*Caribbean Sea
*North Sea
*Black Sea

8. *Other Bodies of Water *gulfs *lakes *rivers *streams *ponds

9. *Continents: 7 parts of Earth's land mass North America South America Africa Asia Australia Antarctica Europe

10. Atmosphere: where weather develops
*Atmosphere: where weather develops *Climate: main kind of weather in an area; affected by distance from the equator; precipitation makes a difference in climate

11. Natural Vegetation Regions
Savannah
Steppe
Tundra
Tropical Rainforests

12. Place: Human Characteristics
Cultural: language, religion, and beliefs define a place’s human character
Helps make you more aware of what makes a place special
* Cultural * Natural
Language Landscape
Clothing Plants
Buildings Animal Life
Music Climate
Foods

13. 3. HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION
Study to learn how people use Earth’s resources and how that affects geographical systems
Changes and adaption's to surroundings (irrigation, skyscrapers)
There are always advantages and disadvantages to living in an area

14. Decisions People Make to Adapt to the Environment
People depend on the environment
People modify their environment
People adapt to their environment

15. 4. MOVEMENT
How people, ideas, information, and products move around the world
Factors of movement
* PUSH FACTORS *PULL FACTORS
War Exploration
Religion Jobs
Freedom Money

16. Geographers understand what effects movement has had on people and the environment
Geographers learn how ideas move

17. 5. REGIONS Areas that have certain characteristics in common
Geographers divide the world into regions
Used as a theme to make comparisons
A region has natural and cultural features distinct from other places