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5 Themes of Geography
Mr. J
Definition of Geography
ge·og·ra·phy1 : a science that deals with the description, distribution, and interaction of the diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth's surfaceSource-Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary
In plain English
Geography is the study of the earth and everything on it.
The Five Themes of Geography
Location
Place
Interaction
Movement
Region
Five themes of geography in our room
Your friends are over and one needs to use the bathroom. How might you explain where the bathroom is at home?
How would you explain where your desk is using Location?
Master bedroom
office
Master
bath
bedroom
bedroom
bathroom
Bedroom
stairs
“Up the stairs, second door on the left”
Location
Where something is on the globe. uses latitude and longitude lines and we use directions North, South, East and West
EXACT spot on the planet.• Latitude lines run sideways
• Longitude lines run north and south
Your desk could be “ Wall side, third row, second desk.”
Importance of Location
The placement of a given spot on the globe will affect its climate, amount of sunlight it gets, vegetation, animal life etcThese will in turn have an impact on the people who live there
Do Eskimos dress the same way as people in Hawaii?
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See Google Earth
Place
Where something is in relation to its surroundings
Describe your desk in terms of “place”
How would you describe Philadelphia, using “place?”
See Google Earth
Importance of Place
Our surroundings will impact on the development of society.
Denver is high up in the mountains – how will that affect the way people live?Philadelphia is at the confluence of 2 major rivers, with easy access to the ocean – how will that affect the way we live?Britain is an island – how will that affect the way people there live?
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Interaction
How people use the “stuff” around them or how their geography causes people to change to adapt to it.
Pennsylvania has the Appalachian mountains in it. These mountains have vast amounts of coal. Therefore, Pennsylvania does a great deal of coal mining. We INTERACT with the geography.We also CHANGE our geography. We strip the mountains apart to get to the coal. We level mountains and fill in ravines and low ground
• Leningrad in Russia – its built on a swamp• Philadelphia airport – used to be part of the Delaware River!
MovementHow geography affects the movement of people, things and ideas
Geography can help OR hinder this movementHOW????
• Give an example of how geography can HELP the movement of people, things and ideas
• Give an example of how geography can HINDER the movement of people, things and ideas
How does the geography of this room help or hinder movement
• Need two volunteers for this one
Region
An area with unifying characteristics Geographical
Political
Economic
Cultural
What characteristics define the region we live in?
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