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The Geography of Texas • Geography is the study of the Earth, its physical features, and the people and creatures who live on it. Just as you affect the environment, the environment affects where you live, what you do, where you go, and what you see. The Five Themes of Geography Geographers use the Five Themes of Geography to learn more about how people use the land. The Five Themes are: • Location • Place • Human-Environment Relationships • Movement • Region Location • Relative location is when you use another location to figure out where something is. Using landmarks or street names to explain where you are located. – Example: next door to the bank or Addresses like 301 Pony Drive, Grapevine, Texas • Absolute location is when geographers use the exact location of a place on the earth’s surface. – Example latitude and longitude, coordinates, addresses Place is made up of the Physical Environment or the surroundings and conditions in which something exists. What makes a location different from another location. How do Climate, vegetation, and landforms combine with human features in the environment. – Example how would you describe the place or environment around you? Place Human-Environment Relationships How people interact with and change the environment; when people change the physical surroundings. How has man changed the environment to meet his needs and how man has adapted to the environment? • Examples: leveling forests, damming rivers pollution, people living in igloos or pueblo homes • How people and products move around the earth, and how we communicate with each other. • Cultural diffusion is when people bring ideas and culture from one place to another. Examples- Moving to another country or state, shipping products from one state to another, email Movement • The world is divided into different geographic regions based on what they have in common and how they are different. • Regions can be divided based on geographic, physical, political or cultural features. - Example include the 4 Natural Regions of Texas and Texas is a state that is part of the United States. Region Areas that share similar characteristics Latitude, Longitude, and Absolute Location • Latitude -Runs East and West across the earth • Longitude -Runs North and South across the earth