The Five Themes of Geography

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Five Themes of Geography
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What do Geographers Do?

• Geographers look at the patterns and connections
  between people and land to help them describe the
  earth.

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Five Themes of Geography
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Location
Where is it?
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Two Types of Location
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Absolute Location

• Absolute Latitude and Longitude or an address
• KCHS Latitude 30º0352.337 N Longitude
  952930.833W or 20811 Ella Blvd.

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Latitudes
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North/South Hemispheres
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Longitudes
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East/West Hemispheres
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Measurement
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Relative Location

• Relative Describing where a place is by
  describing places near it.
• KCHS south of Schindelwolf west of Kreinhop.

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Place
What is it like?
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Two Features
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• Human features The culture of a place.
• Race, religions, languages, governments,
  occupations, architecture, foods, clothing, etc.

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• Physical features Things determined by nature.
• Climate, indigenous plants, animals, land forms,
  types of soils, etc.

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Human/Environment Interaction
How do people relate to the physical world?
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Human- Environment Interaction

• How people effect the environment and how the
  environment effects people.
• People either adapt to their environment or the
  alter their environment

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Examples

• Dams
• Roads
• Farms
• Cities

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Movement
How do people, ideas, and products move from one
location to another?
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Movement

• Movement of people, goods, and ideas from one
  place to another.

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Everything Came From Somewhere
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Linear Distance

• How far do people, products and ideas travel from
  one location to another.

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Time Distance

• The amount of time it takes for a
  person/idea/good to travel from one location to
  another.

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Psychological Time

• The way people perceive distance.

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Region
How are areas similar or different?
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Region

• An area that is unique. Geographers use regions
  to compare different areas.

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Distinctive Characteristics
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Formal Regions

• Defined by a limited number of related
  characteristics.
• Houston
• Texas
• USA
• Africa

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Functional Regions

• Organized around a set of interactions and
  connections between places.
• Think of a hub
• Downtown to Spring
• Medical Center to Sugarland

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Perceptual Regions

• People see characteristics the same way.
• Hill Country
• The South
• The Westbank
• The Midwest
• The Middle East
• SW Houston