Using Geography Skills What is Geography The study

Using Geography Skills

What is Geography? The study of the Earth and its people.

Five Themes of Geography Location – The position of a place on the Earth’s surface. Absolute Location – The exact spot where something is located on the Earth’s surface. Relative Location – Describes where things are in relation to other things.

Five Themes of Geography cont. Place – Physical features of a location that make it unique. Plants, landforms, animals, weather patterns, people, language Human-Environment Interaction – how people affect the environment.

Five Themes of Geography cont. Movement – explains how and why people move from place to place. Regions – areas of the Earth’s surface that have several common characteristics such as land, natural resources, or population. See page 18 -20

Geographers Tools Places in Time – Geographers learn about a place by studying how it changed over time Decade, century, millennium Four historical periods Prehistory – until 5500 years ago Ancient History – until 1500 years ago Middle Ages – next 1000 years Modern History – 500 years ago to the present

Maps and Globes Globe – a round model of the Earth Map – a flat drawing of the Earth Problems? Distortion

Goode’s Interrupted Equal Area Projection

Robinson Projection

Mercator Projection

Winkel Tripel Projection

Latitude and Longitude Latitude lines are imaginary circles that run east to west The middle is called the equator. They are parallel. Measure northern and southern location. 90° Longitude lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole. Middle line is the Prime Meridian in Greenwich, England. The measure eastern and western location. 180° These are used to measure exact location.

Hemispheres The hemispheres are four equal pieces of the Earth. The Earth is cut along the equator and the Prime Meridian.

Map Practice

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Chart Title Mr. Barr Geography Whatever is in room 204 Class? I'm here for the food!

Favorite Book Who reads? Batman, duh! Girls Boys Divergent Batman, duh! 0 1 2 3 4 5

Percentage of students paying attention in class. 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Series 1 series 2 Series 3 Beginning 20 One hour 5 minutes of Class minutes into class before into class is over