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-Geography is the study of the earth and of the
ways people live and work on it.
-Geographia is the Greek and for geography,
which means “a description of the earth.”
-Geographers are people who study the earth and
it’s relationship with people
-Geographers center around 5 main themes:
1) location, 2) place, 3) human/environment
interaction, 4) movement, and 5) region.
-The precise position of a place on the earth is
called the absolute location.
-The equator is an imaginary line that circles the
earth midway between the North and South Pole.
The equator divides the earth into hemispheres,
meaning two halves. (Northern and Southern)
-Latitude (parallel) lines circle the earth parallel
to the equator, and measure distance north and
south.
Important examples:
1) Tropic of Cancer located at 23 ½ degrees N
2) Tropic of Capricorn located at 23 ½ deg. S
-Longitude (meridians) lines run from pole to pole
and measures distances east and west. Measuring
begins at the Prime Meridian at 0 degrees
longitude. The prime meridian runs through
Greenwich, England.
-Lines of latitude and longitude cross one another
to form a grid system.
-Thinking of a place and its relation to places
around it is known as relative location.
-Place asks the question, “What is it like there?”
-Human/Environment Interaction simply
describes what the relationship is between people
and their environment.
-Movement describes how people and places are
connected.
-For the most part people are interdependent,
meaning they rely on one another.
-Areas of land is often divided into regions, and
two examples are uniform and functional regions.
-Uniform example: The Sun Belt in the U.S.
-Functional example: The Atlanta
Metropolitan area