Geography Handbook The Five Themes 1 Location Relative

Geography Handbook

The Five Themes

#1 -- Location Relative Location Ex – Oklahoma is north of Texas. Exact Location: Using map coordinates Ex - Distance (More on this later…)

#2 Place What makes a location unique? • Physical Features • Human Features

#3 Region Describes an area of land with something in common. • Politics: America is a democracy • Climate: Texas Gulf Coast is humid • Language • Religion • Culture: way of life

#4 --Movement People and Goods • Travel • Trade • What are ways that movement is limited? Information • Internet • Radio and TV • Books and Newspapers • How has technology affected the movement of information? • Is this positive or negative?

#5 Interaction with Environment How do humans deal with the world around them? How do weather cycles affect people? How does physical geography affect people?

REVIEW: How can we show location? • Relative Location: An object’s location in relation to another object. Absolute or Exact Location: Location that is found using latitude and longitude.

Tools that geographers & students (and Waldo) use.

What do these show? Compass Rose Scale

What can these tell us? Key Title

What measures what? Latitude • Imaginary lines • Run east and west • Measure distance north and south of the equator. Longitude • Imaginary Lines • Run north and south • Measures distance east and west of the Prime Meridian.

Hemispheres North and South East and West