Download The Five Themes of Geography

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Come in, take out a sheet of paper and answer the following
questions.
What do you think the population of CANADA
is? Take an educated guess.
 What do you think the population of the
WORLD is? Take an educated guess.
 Write down the two big categories within
geography
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Opening Activity- fill as much in as you can of
the sheet that is on your desk
Hand in course outlines if you haven’t yet
5 themes of Geography
 PPT
 Note
 Assignment- due tomorrow
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Second, Northern, North America, USA,
Mexico, 9 970 610 sq. km, Russia
A continent is one of the seven land masses
on Earth
An ocean is a great body of salt water
N America, S America, Africa, Asia,
Australia/Oceania, Antarctica, Europe
Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Antarctic, Indian
Miss Hamilton
ge·og·ra·phy
Geography is the science that tries to
understand how the Earth works
and how humans change it.
Geography is the study of the
earth and everything on it.
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The 5 Themes of Geography originated by the
National Geographic Society to fulfill a need
for geographers (people who study the earth
and everything on it) categorize everything
they learn.
 Location
 Place
 Human-Environment Interaction
 Movement
 Regions
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Two types of location:
absolute and relative
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Scotiabank Place
Absolute
Location
A specific place on the Earth’s surface
 Uses a grid system
 Latitude and longitude
 A global address
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1000 Palladium Dr. Ottawa, ON
Where a place is in
relation to another
place
 Uses directional
words to describe
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 Cardinal and
intermediate
directions
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About 10 minutes from the AMC theatre
Theme 2: PLACE
What is it like there,
What kind of place is it?
 Human
 Physical
Characteristics
• What are the main
languages, customs,
and beliefs.
• How many people live,
work, and visit a place.
Characteristics
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Things that occur
naturally, such as
mountains, rivers, type of
soil, wildlife, climate etc.
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How People Interact With Their
Environment
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People . . .
Adapt to Their Environment
Modify Their Environment
Depend on Their Environment
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THEME 4: MOVEMENT
 How
people, goods, and ideas are moved
from place to place
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Human Movement
• Trucks, Trains, Planes
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Information Movement
• Phones, computer (email), mail
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Idea Movement
• How do fads move from place to place?
TV, Radio, Magazines
THEME 5: REGIONS
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Areas with similar physical traits, or similar
cultural traits
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Formal Regions
• Regions defined by actual boundaries (Provinces, Countries,
Cities)
• Regions defined by similar characteristics (Corn Belt, Rocky
Mountain region, Chinatown).
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Functional Regions
• Regions defined by a function (newspaper service area, cell
phone coverage area).
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Vernacular Regions
• Regions that have no formal boundaries but are understood in
our mental maps of the world.
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How am I ever going to remember all five of
these themes?!...Mr. Help, to the rescue!
M Movement
R Region
HE Human Environment Interaction
L Location
P Place
Your assignment
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Describe a place you love using the 5 Themes of
Geography. Make sure you use every theme!
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A place I love is the Hintonburger restaurant. Its absolute location is 1096
Wellington St W Ottawa, ON K1Y 2Y4. It is about 10 minutes west of
downtown and close to Bridgehead. The Ottawa River is just a bit North
of it. (absolute and relative LOCATION)
It is where the old KFC used to be on Wellington. There are lots of staff
who come from all different backgrounds. The main language I head
being spoken is English. It is always busy and loud.(PLACE)
The restaurant has adapted to the environment because it has air
conditioning to help handle hot Ottawa summers! It is a modified space
because it used to be KFC and so they changed it to be a burger place.
Some people depend on it for meals, and its employees depend on it for
wages and work. (H-E Interaction)
Trucks and vans make food deliveries to the Hintonburger. People bus,
drive or walk to get there. There are always lots of people sitting inside
on their laptops or on their phones. It has been written up in the
newspaper before and that has helped it become so popular. It won a
burger contest in Ottawa too (Ottawa Citizen).(MOVEMENT)
It is in Eastern Ontario, in a region of Ottawa called Hintonburg.
(REGION)