2. D: 8/31/12
A: 5 Themes Foldable
S: What are the 5 themes of
geography?
H: Supplies Due by 9/10
Family Culture Web Due by 9/7
W.O.D: Geography
Warm-Up: Brian Pop
3. Word of the Day
Word Definition Sentence Picture
When you
The study of study
the Earth’s geography
Geography physical and you learn
cultural about land,
features. water,
plants,
animals and
people.
4. Five Themes of Geography
• Location
• Place
• Interaction
• Movement
• Region
5. Location
Absolute Location Relative Location
The location as The location in
Latitude relation to something else.
And
Longitude For Example,
coordinates. Las Vegas is located in the
For example, Southern part of
Washington D.C. is located at Nevada.
39 degrees North OR
and Las Vegas is East of Los Angeles
77 degrees West
6. Place
Two ways to describe a place
Human characteristics Physical characteristics
For example, For example,
houses climate
transportation soil
jobs Plants
languages Animals
religions Landforms
7. Interaction
Two ways to interact with the environment
You can adapt to the environment. You can also change your
Meaning that YOU change to environment. We change by
suit the environment building or destroying our
environment.
For example, For example,
It is VERY hot in Las Vegas in the Las Vegas needed water so we
summer so we use built Hoover Dam
Air conditioning We cut down trees to make
In Washington it rains A LOT so paper.
you have to carry an We dig in the ground for oil
umbrella to make our cars go.
8. Movement
Two types of things we move
Things we can touch And our ideas
like people and goods By
By Speech
boat, Writing
train, The Internet
car The media
airplane
9. Region
Two ways to describe region.
Physical characteristics A region can be
For example, any size as long there is
climate a group of places with
landforms at least one thing in
Cultural characteristics common.
For example, Some regions are formed
language based on people’s
race perceptions
