Download 5 Themes of Geography

Integrating the National Geographic Five Themes of Geography
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/themes.html
Theme #1 – Location
Absolute Location – You can enter
either Longitude or Latitude
coordinates or street addresses in the
search box.
When viewing and navigating the
Longitude and Latitude are displayed
on the bottom left -
Relative Location – You can choose a location and zoom in
or out to visually see the relative position to other
landmarks.
You can also use the ruler tool to measure distances
between two locations
Theme #2 – Place
To identify the physical features, you
can use the tilt (above the compass
rose to mimic a 3D effect.
You can turn on or off several of the layers available in
Google Earth.
Consider :
o Panoramio – see
photos contributed
for the area
o Wikipedia – links
from wikipedia to
learn more about it.
o Roads – See roads
and road names
o Borders and Labels – Turn on or off the lines
separating political boundaries
o Weather – Current weather conditions overlayed on
the location
Theme #3 – Human / Environment Interaction
Having a bird’s eye view can help to understand human
development and interactions with area. Within the Layers,
if you turn on the terrain layer and use the tilt, then you
can understand the impact of
rivers
and mountains.
Theme # 4 – Movement
Interacting with the Roads layer can help to identify how
people move based on the geography. You can also see
features such as the airport (large flat area), DeltaPort
(built road to deep enough water), Ports in protected
harbours.
In addition to working with your local region and the maps,
you can download additional files from the Google Earth
Community such as http://earth.google.com/gallery/ there is one there for international flights.
Theme # 5 – Regions
Interacting with the Borders and Labels layer, you can turn
on / off International borders as well as internal borders in
countries. If you turn on Second Level Admin districts, then
you can see things like the Vancouver Regional District.
To additional Geography Nuggets
www.worldmapper.org
www.gapminder.org
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