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Today • Objective 5 themes of Geography • Examine and discuss Location • Discuss absolute and relative location • Discuss and examine longitude & latitude • Complete a location worksheet

5 Themes of Geography • A framework for studying the world. • The purpose of the 5 themes of geography is to help us organize info about the earth like where things are , and why are they there.

LOCATION • WHERE IS IT? * RELATIVE OR ABSOLUTE, New Orleans is located at coordinates N 30 W 90?

PLACE • WHAT IS IT LIKE? * All locations have physical features that set them apart such as climate, landforms, and vegetation * Other features are products of humaninteraction with environment such as buildings, roads or houses

Louisiana as Place

REGION • HOW ARE PLACES SIMILAR AND DIFFERENT?

Examples of Regions

MOVEMENT • HOW DO PEOPLE, GOODS AND IDEAS MOVE FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER?

HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION • HOW DO PEOPLE RELATE TO THE PHYSICAL WORLD?

Location answers the question Where is it?

Geographers refer to location in 2 ways. • Absolute location is an exact place on earth where a geographic feature such as a city is found

Relative location • Relative location describes a place in comparison to other places around it. • Examplethe relative location of Louisiana is south of Arkansas west of Mississippi east of Texas & north of the Gulf of Mexico

What is the relative location of Baker?

What is the relative location of Baker? • North of Baton Rouge • South of Zachary

• Geographers use a grid system of imaginary lines for locating places on the earth’s surface

Equator • Imaginary line that divides the north and south halves

Prime Meridian • The imaginary line that divides the earth east and west • Sometimes this is called the Greenwich meridian because the line runs through Greenwich, England

Hemisphere • Each half of the globe is called a hemisphere. • Hemispheres can be north & south or east & west

4 Hemispheres

Lines of Latitude • Imaginary lines that help locate places north & south. Latitude lines run parallel to the equator.

Lines of Longitude • Lines of Longitude mark positions in the east and west hemispheres. The prime meridian is the zero-degree for longitude.

Signing Latitude( a way to remember latitude) • Latitude: – “I'm climbing the Ladder of latitudes, latitudes. I'm climbing the ladder of latitudes, all around the world. ”

Remembering Longitude • Longitude: – “It's a LONG, LONG way from pole to pole, pole to pole It's a LONG, LONG way from pole to pole, so we call those LONGITUDES. ”