Download 5 Themes of Geography PP

Schedule
• 5 Themes Geography
• Map Projections
Schedule
• 5 Themes
• Chat Room
• Lab
THE 5 THEMES OF
GEOGRAPHY
Intro
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJeR4k7w
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LOCATION
Where are we?
• Absolute Location
– A latitude and longitude
(global location) or a
street address (local
location).
– Paris France is 48o North
Latitude and 2o East
Longitude.
– The White House is
located at 1600
Pennsylvania Ave.
• Relative Location
– Described by landmarks,
time, direction, or
distance from one place
to another.
– Go 1 mile west on main
street and turn left for 1
block.
Video
• http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoI
D=6291
Which is which
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35 Degrees North and 23 Degrees West
67 Degrees South and 13 Degrees East
North of Pittsburgh
90 Degrees South and 67 Degrees West
Turn left by the Christmas Tree
Group
• http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/google
_map_Pittsburgh.htm
PLACE
What is it like there? What kind of place is it?
• Human
• Physical
Characteristics
Characteristics
• What are the main
languages, customs, and
beliefs.
• How many people live,
work, and visit a place.
• Landforms (mountains,
rivers, etc.), climate,
vegetation, wildlife, soil,
etc.
HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT
INTERACTION
• How do humans and the environment affect
each other?
– We depend on it.
• People depend on the Tennessee River for water and
transportation.
– We modify it.
• People modify our environment by
heating and cooling buildings for comfort.
– We adapt to it.
• We adapt to the environment by wearing
clothing suitable for summer (shorts) and
winter (coats), rain and shine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMfSGt6rHos
MOVEMENT
• How are people, goods, ideas moved from place
to place?
– Human Movement
• Trucks, Trains, Planes
– Information Movement
• Phones, computer (email), mail
– Idea Movement
• How do fads move from place to place?
TV, Radio, Magazines
REGIONS
• How are Regions similar to and different from other
places?
– Formal Regions
• Regions defined by governmental or administrative boundaries (States,
Countries, Cities)
• Regions defined by similar characteristics (Corn Belt, Rocky Mountain
region, Chinatown).
– Functional Regions
• Regions defined by a function (newspaper service area, cell phone
coverage area).
What do you remember?
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Corn Belt, Western PA
Trucks, internet, Haircuts
Address, Longitude and Latitude
languages, customs, landforms, climate
We adapt to the environment by wearing
clothing suitable for summer (shorts) and
winter (coats), rain and shine.
Song
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIqC79Wr
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THE FIVE THEMES OF
GEOGRAPHY
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Location
Place
Human-Environment Interaction
Movement
Regions
Review
• Tearing down trees to build homes because
more people are moving to an area.
• My house is brown. I live in a small
neighborhood. People speak English there.
There is a hill in our yard.
• I use the internet and fly on a plane when I take
vacations.
• 23 Degrees North and 50 Degrees West
• Breadbasket States
Read in Book
• Page 30 in Book
Video
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwkqgb4
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Remembering the 5 themes
• If you can’t remembering what they
are just ask MR. HELP!!!
• M – Movement
• R – Regions
• HE – Human Environment interaction
• L – Location
• P - Place
Your assignment
• Describe you and your family using the 5
Themes of Geography.
• Make sure you use every theme.
Which is Which?
• My family leaves in Western Pennsylvania.
• My address is 418 Beaver Street Mars, PA 16046.
• My husband and myself drive a car to get to work. We depend
on the computer and our phones. We use the internet, email,
and various other sites. I enjoy reading US Weekly.
• Currently, we built a garden for the summer. Also we changed
our back yard and flattened the land for a shed.
• We live in a small neighborhood. There is a little pond behind
our house. My family has many customs. We place money
outside and food on News Year’s Eve.
Homework
• My family currently lives on Southwold Drive, in Cary, North Carolina. This
is southwest of Wake Forest, and bordered by Raleigh and Apex.
(LOCATION)
• We all speak English, are Christian, a family custom was family dinners each
night and yearly trips to the beach in the summer. Our house is located in a
neighborhood on mostly flat land, with many pine trees. (PLACE)
• We adapted to our environment when we moved from New York by packing
away our shovels and investing in more clothes for the hot weather! We
modified our house when we had a screened-in porch built and also a stone
patio added. We depend on our garden for vegatables, herbs, and flowers. (HE Interaction)
• All members of my family drive cars to get from place to place. We also travel
by airplane to get long distances. We also all use e-mail and telephones to
communicate with eachother. My mom and I are both avid People magazine
readers, as well as National Geographic. (MOVEMENT)
• We live in the South. (REGION)
Website
• http://www.digitalweek.info/education/mapping_our_world/map
ping_our_world/l/lesson1/index.htm
Maps
• Read pages 38-39
Latitude and Longitude
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swKBi6h
HHMA
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjDqhLU
zCpE#t=39
• Read page 36 and 37
Let’s Practice
• Smartboard (Together)
• Worksheet (Independent)
Game
• http://www.abcya.com/latitude_and_longitude
_practice.htm