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What is geography?
Geography is the study of the earth and the
ways people live and work on it; the study of
the way places on the earth differ and the
ways people organize themselves and use the
earth’s resources; it also deals with the
location of these places and the complex
relationships between people and their
environments.
Warm-up:
List the 5 themes of geography
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The Five Themes of
Geography
Location: “Where is it?”
Absolute location:
the precise
location on the
globe
Longitude and
Latitude
Relative Location:
places in relation
to other places
Place: “What is it like there?”
Human features:
The number and kinds
of people that live there,
activities, religions,
languages and cultural
backgrounds.
Physical features:
Land, water, soil,
weather, plant and
animal life.
Movement: “How are people
and places connected?”
People moving from
region to region
Job change, better land,
weather, religious freedom
Transit has made
movement easier:
Airplanes, trains,
automobiles
People becoming more
“interdependent”
Human/Environment Interaction:
“What is the relationship between the
people and the environment?”
People attracted to a place for
specific reasons
Florida
How people adapt to the
environment
Clothing, diet
How people change their
environment
Deserts and irrigation
How people have created
problems with their
environment:
Pollutions and waste
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Region: “makes study of
geography more manageable”
Divisions of the world
based on :
Physical features
Plant and animal life
Governments
Languages
Uniform regions:
Corn belt, wheat belt,
Bible belt, cotton belt,
rust belt
Functional regions
Shopping malls
Cities
Transit systems
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Geography and links with
other academic subjects:
Science: collect data to prove or disprove
theories or questions
History: understand the way places looked in
the past
Political Science: see how different places are
governed
Economics: understand how the location of
resources affect people
Sociology: help understand societies
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M -movement
R - region
HE - human/environment interaction
L - location
P- place