Download Geography 5_Themes

Emergence of Civilization
Unit 1
Journal 8/31/2015
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Why do we need to understand
Geography when studying History?
Name 5 things you can learn from a
civilization from the location in which
they live.
GEOGRAPHY
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Study of people, their environment and
resources. Can give us contextual clues as
to how they live their lives.
Every event happens somewhere
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Must know WHERE it happens to fully
understand WHY it happens.
GEOGRAPHY
5 Major Themes of Geography
to help us understand what and why things
happen
1) LOCATION – Where, How do I get there?
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exact location
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LATITUDE - North and South of equator
LONGITUDE - East and West or Prime Meridian
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Hemisphere – Half of the globe
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Zero degrees, through Greenwich, England
relative location
GEOGRAPHY
2) PLACE – What is it like to live there?
• physical and human characteristics of the
LOCATION
• mountains, rivers, beaches, topography, and animal and
plant life of a place
• human-designed features of a place, i.e. land use,
architecture, forms of livelihood, religion, transportation
communication.
GEOGRAPHY
3)Human Environment Interaction
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How do people relate to the land?
• how people relate to it, are affected
by it and have modified it.
• Positively and negatively
• interactions between 4 physical
systems
• Earth’s atmosphere, land, water, and
life.
GEOGRAPHY
4) MOVEMENT –
Why people move around and the
humans effect on the environment?
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food, religion, political, work, ideas,
products, disease.
GEOGRAPHY
5)REGIONS
• areas with specific
characteristics, things
in common
• Physical, political,
religious, language,
economic
• All can in some way be
represented with or by
maps
• sources for history
Geography Assignment
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Use the newspaper or magazines (whatever you have available) to
cut out an example of each of the five themes of geography (Use
your notes to help you find examples.):
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1. Paste or tape each examples to a piece of paper.
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Location
Place
Human Environment Interaction
Region
Movement
Only one theme per page.
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This will leave room for some writing.
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4 – 6 sentences.
2. For each example write what theme it represents and why.
Create a title page (Title (5 Themes), Name, Period)
Staple all together.
Due : Next Class period.