The Five Themes1. Location2. Place3. Human-environment

Interaction4. Movement5. Region

Where is geography. A statement, not a questionSociety expects geographers to know

about locations, places, and regions.When is history. Lots of what

disciplines.Geographers use a special kind of

graphic [maps or charts] to help illustrate and communicate information about locations

Cartography = the science and art of map making

Map reading [and folding] are skills that can be learned

Maps are a generalization of reality [simplification]

Scale = a numerical way to relate the map to the world

Representative fraction:distance on the mapdistance in the world

1:5,000,000 1 inch on the map = 5 million inches in

the world or1 inch = 78.9 miles

Absolute and relative locationAbsolute

An exact or fixed location on the EarthTypically use a grid system to describe

absolute locationLatitude and longitudeMany other coordinate systems exist

Township and RangeState Plane UTM

Street addresses

Absolute and relative locationRelative

Location connected with other landscape features

Many ways to ‘make the connection’Distance and direction [5 miles east of

______]At a reference point [at the Falls of the

Potomac]Time [25 minutes west of Hays on I-70]Kansas is north of OklahomaAcross the street from Pizza Hut

A fully functional Global Navigation Satellite SystemGPS uses a constellation of between 24 and 32

satellites that transmit precise microwave signals, that enable GPS receivers to determine their current location the time their velocity (including direction)

After Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down in 1983 after straying into the USSR's prohibited airspace, President Reagan issued a directive making GPS freely available for civilian use as a common good.

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Where are all the locations that are a known distance from a point?

Two hands clapping [you need both]Site and situationCondition and connectionsRelationships within places [Place]

and relationships between places [Movement]