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Geography fun facts!
  • Write the letter of your guess on your cover
    sheet on the warm-up side todays date 8/25
  • There is a city called ______ on every continent
    in the world.A. AthensB. Rome C. LondonD.
    Tokyo

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  • The ___________is the fourth largest country
    based on population and geographic area.
  • A. ChinaB. South AfricaC. United
    StatesD. Canada

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  • 3. What is the longest river in the United
    States?
  • A. ColoradoB . MississippiC. MissouriD. Ri
    o Grande

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The Five Themes of Geography
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Lets Review!
  • What are the SEVEN CONTINENTS??
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • Africa
  • Australia
  • Antarctica
  • North America
  • South America
  • What are the FOUR OCEANS??
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Arctic Ocean
  • Indian Ocean

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The 5 Themes of Geography
  1. Location
  2. Movement
  3. Region
  4. Place
  5. Human/ Environment Interaction

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Theme 1 Location
  • Where is it??

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Location
  • There are two types of LOCATION!!
  • Absolute (mathematical)
  • Relative

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Absolute Location
  • Absolute Location is found by using
  • Two specific line types
  • Latitude
  • Longitude

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Absolute Location
  • Latitude Lines
  • AKA (Parallels)
  • Latitude lines are drawn from
  • East to West
  • Latitude lines measure
  • North to South

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Absolute Location
  • The Major Line of LATITUDE is the
  • Equator
  • It splits the Earth into
  • the Northern and
  • Southern Hemispheres

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Define Hemisphere
  • Half of a globe
  • (in our case the Earth)

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Absolute Location
  • Other important lines of LATITUDE
  • 22 1/3 North Tropic of Cancer
  • 22 1/3 South Tropic of Capricorn
  • They are important because
  • They get the most direct
  • sunlight making these areas
  • the hottest places on Earth

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Absolute Location
  • Other important lines
  • 66 1/2 North Arctic Circle
  • 66 1/2 South Antarctic Circle
  • They are important because
  • These areas get the least amount
  • of sunlight. Part of the year
  • there is no sunlight and the
  • other part of the year there
  • is no darkness.

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Absolute Location
  • Longitude Lines
  • AKA (Meridians)
  • Latitude lines are drawn from
  • North to South
  • Latitude lines measure
  • East to West

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Absolute Location
  • The Major Line of LONGITUDE is the
  • Prime Meridian
  • It splits the Earth into
  • the Eastern and
  • Western Hemispheres

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Absolute Location
  • Roswells Mathematical Location is
  • 34 3' 47? N, 84 22' 52? W ( seconds and
    minutes)

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Relative Location
  • Where an area is depending on where another area
    is!
  • Figure out where Mr. Ws desk is in relation to
    something else in the room!

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Theme 2 Movement
  • How are people linked together?

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Movement
  • Movement describes how
  • How people in one area contact people in other
    areas

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Movement
  • What can move??

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Movement
  • How can things move??

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Movement
  • Through movement we connect all of our world
    together.
  • This is called globalization!
  • When we are interdependent on each other for our
    economy, culture, politics, socialization, and
    technology.

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Which of the following is NOT a geography theme?
  • Movement
  • Region
  • People

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Theme 3 Region
  • What does it have in common?

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Region
  • A region describes
  • Areas that have something in common
  • Regions can be
  • BIG
  • or
  • small

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Region
  • There are 3 types of Regions
  • Formal / Uniform
  • Functional / Nodal
  • Vernacular / Perceptual

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Region
  • Formal / Uniform Region is an. . .
  • Area in which a certain characteristic is found
    throughout the area
  • Examples City, State, Country, Continent, places
    with the same climate, same religion, same
    language, same crops, etc.

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Region
  • Functional / Nodal Regions
  • Have one central place (a node) and it is
    surrounded by the areas it affects
  • Example the delivery area of a pizza restaurant,
    the space covered by a cell phone tower, the
    cities that Delta flies to from Atlanta

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  • Vernacular / Perceptual Regions
  • Region that people perceive they believe it
    exists as part of their cultural identity.

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Theme 4 Place
  • What is it like?

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Place
What is it like?
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Place
What is it like?
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Place
  • What is it like?

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Place
  • Each PLACE on Earth has it own
  • DISTINCT CHARACTERISTICS
  • Two types
  • Human
  • Or
  • Physical
  • (something that makes it different than any other
    place in the world)

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Place
  • Physical Features
  • The Earth is covered in 30 land
  • All landforms are described by their elevation
  • Elevation is the height above sea level
  • There are 4 main types of landforms they are
  • Mountains
  • Hills
  • Plateaus
  • Plains

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Place
  • Physical Features
  • Another physical feature is also an areas
    climate.
  • What affects climate?
  • There are 3 major climate regions.
  • Tropical
  • Temperate (Mid-Latitude)
  • Polar

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  • What is the difference between Location Place?

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  • Which of the following is NOT an example of
    location?
  • 12 N, 32 W
  • 124 Main Street, Springfield, Missouri
  • Georgia

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What is the difference between Location Place?
Location 5 S , 68 W
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What is the difference between Location Place?
Place Describe
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Human/Environment Interaction
  • How do we interact with our environment?

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HEI
  • What is an environment?
  • Natural Surroundings
  • Human/Environment Interaction explains
  • How people use and change their environment

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HEI
  • The environment influences how
  • We live
  • Examples

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Does the environment affect where we do this
activity?
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HEI
  • When ever people come in contact with something
    they
  • Change it!
  • Examples are
  • Good examples?
  • Bad examples?
  • Both examples?

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  • Which of the following IS an example of Human
    Environment Interaction?
  • Getting the mail
  • Riding in a cattle roundup
  • Rainforest clearing

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Remembering the 5 themes
  • If you cant remembering what they are just ask
    MR. HELP!!!
  • M Movement
  • R Regions
  • HE Human Environment interaction
  • L Location
  • P - Place

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HEI Global Warming
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HEI Global Warming
  • What is Global Warming
  • It is caused by humans
  • Too much Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is in the air
  • Which in turn makes the Earths temperature rise

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HEI Global Warming
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HEI Global Warming
  • If you want to see the polar ice caps, go before
    2040
  • Simulations of global warming patterns indicate
    that the polar ice caps have a high chance of
    melting entirely by 2040.

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HEI Global Warming
  • The temperature is melting the polar ice caps !
  • Results
  • Makes the oceans level rise
  • Floods areas near the ocean
  • Precipitation increased in some areas
  • Precipitation decreased in some areas (desert
    like)

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HEI Global Warming
  • What can we do to help??
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