Geography Handbook

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Geography Handbook

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The Five Themes
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1 -- Location

• Relative Location
• Ex Oklahoma is north of Texas.
• Ex - Distance

• Exact Location
• Using map coordinates
• (More on this later)

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2 Place

• What makes a location unique?
• Physical Features
• Human Features

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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

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4 --Movement

• Information

• People and Goods

• Travel
• Trade
• What are ways that movement is limited?

• Internet
• Radio and TV
• Books and Newspapers
• How has technology affected the movement of
  information?
• Is this positive or negative?

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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?

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REVIEW How can we show location?

• Relative Location
• An objects location in relation to another
  object.
• Absolute or Exact Location
• Location that is found using latitude and
  longitude.

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Tools that geographers students (and Waldo) use.
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What do these show?

• Compass Rose

• Scale

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What can these tell us?

• Key

• Title

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What measures what?

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Imaginary lines
• Run east and west
• Measure distance north and south of the equator.

• Imaginary Lines
• Run north and south
• Measures distance east
• and west of the Prime
• Meridian.

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Hemispheres

• North and South

• East and West