1. Geography is . . . the world and everything in it.
Physical Geography Human Geography
Geographic Literacy : Is the ability to apply geographic knowledge and skills to make important decisions.
Understanding how our world works
Understanding how our world is connected
Understanding how to make well-reasoned decisions

2. Location
Where is it? Absolute or Relative

3. Where is it? What is it near?
Absolute Location: Expressed by using latitude and longitude, cross streets, or an address
Relative Location: Expressed by describing what it is near or how close to another place.

4. At the top of your page Give the absolute location of where you live.
Describe the location of your home in relation to other landmarks.

5. Human Characteristics
Place
Unique Physical or
Human Characteristics
What is it like there?

6. What is it like there?
Unique physical and human characteristics such as famous physical features or manmade landmarks.
?Important Rivers
?famous building
?What are the people like?
?Culture

7. At the top of your page . . .
Draw and describe physical features of Nevada.
At the bottom of your page
Describe unique features of Las Vegas.

8. Human-Environment
Interaction

9. What is the relationship between humans and their environment?
Human Environmental Interaction is how the physical geography or environment affects people and how, in turn, people have changed the environment.
?pollution
?planting crops
?building a dam

10. At the top of the page
Give examples of how people have affected or change the physical environment of Nevada over time.

11. Movement
People
Goods
Ideas
Nature

12. How and why places are connected with one another?
Movement of people, goods and ideas
How does a religion spread from one place to another?
Does it matter how and why armies move?
Can the movement of an important resource like oil make a difference in the world?
How does the physical movement within one of the basic Earth systems affect living organisms of the biosphere?

13. At the top of the page
Explain/illustrate how people, goods and ideas move in and out of Las Vegas.

14. Regions Political - Physical - Cultural - Perceptual Large or small
Common
Characteristics
Political - Physical - Cultural - Perceptual

15. How and why places are similar with one another?
We break concepts or places into smaller units to make them easier to study.
Regions can be:
large: Latin America
small: New England
physical: Amazon River Basin
political: United States
cultural: common language or religion

16. At the top of your page
Make a list of as many regions as you can think in Nevada.

17. Location
3 S – 60 W

18. Place

19. Human-Environment Interaction

20. Movement

21. Regions

22. Homework Time! Five Themes of Geography Book Project
Due on or before: September 27, 2013