Download 5 Themes of Geography

Absolute Location
Hesston is located at 38° 8’ 17” N, 97° 25’ 53” W
Relative Location
• HHS is located next to
HMS
• The monastery is
located next to Mount
Everest
• Newton is Southeast of
Hesston
Latitude
• Measures North and
South of the Equator
– Equator is 0°
• 0-90° North or South
• Known as parallels
– Lines never touch and are
equal in distance
• Each degree of Lat. is 69
miles apart
• “Latitude Flatitude”
Longitude
• Measures East and West
of the Prime Meridian
– Prime Meridian is 0°
• Run North and South (Up
and Down)
• 0-180° East and West,
total of 360° of longitude
– 180° is the International
Date Line
• Known as meridians
66.5° Arctic Circle
23.5° Tropic of Cancer
0° Equator
23.5° Tropic of Capricorn
66.5° Antarctic Circle
0° Prime Meridian
DMS (Degrees, Minutes, Seconds)
• Minutes breakdown a degree into smaller
units
• Seconds breakdown a minute into small units
• Using DMS accuracy is within 1 ft.
• Remember 1 degree of Lat. Is 69 miles apart.
• Degrees are broken down into 60 minutes and
minutes are broken down into 60 seconds
• A minute is 1.1 miles and a second is 101 ft.
21 Degree
One Degree = 69 Miles
20 Degree
One Degree = 60 Minutes
One Minute = 1.1 Miles
19 Degree
2 minutes
One Minute = 60 Seconds
One Second = 101 Ft.
Each decimal after the second = 10 ft.
1.1 sec = 110 ft. Or 1.51 sec = 151 ft.
1 minute
How to put it all together
Degree Minute Second Decimal Direction
17
45’
24 . 39”
N
17° 45’ 24.39” N, Longitude
Degree = °
Minute = ’
Second = ”
Place
• Describes the human and physical
characteristics of a location
• Physical features/landforms – mountains,
valleys, beaches, climate, etc.
• Human characteristics—cultural features, land
use, religion, population, etc.
Strait
• A narrow passage of water connecting two
seas or two large areas of water
Isthmus
• A narrow strip of land with sea on either side,
forms a link between land
Sound
• A narrow sea or ocean channel between two
bodies of land
Cape
• Is a point or body of land extending into a
body of water
Plateau
• An area of fairly level high ground
Mesa
• An isolated flat-topped hill with steep sides,
smaller than a plateau
Butte
• An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top
(similar but narrower than a mesa)
Archipelago
• A group of islands, a sea or stretch of water
containing many islands
Delta
• A usually triangular mass of sediment,
especially silt and sand, deposited at the
mouth of a river
Human Environment Interaction
• Interactions between the human social system
and the ecosystem
• Basically, how people impact and effect the
environment and how the environment
effects us.
Human Social Systems
• Types of societies strongly influence attitudes
towards nature, their behavior, etc.
• Characteristics of human social systems:
– Population size
– Values
– Technology
– Wealth
– Education
Movement
• Human and animal migrations and
movements
• Ideas, fads, goods, resources, religions, and
communication all travel as well
Region
• Formal- Designated by official boundaries
– Cities, countries, states
• Functional- Defined by their connections
– The circulation area for a major city would be the
functional region of a paper
• Vernacular- Perceived regions with no formal
boundaries but understood on a “mental map”
– The South
– The Middle East