3 five themes of geography - lodi
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This document introduces the five themes of geography: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions. It provides examples and definitions for each theme. Location is defined in terms of absolute and relative location. Absolute location uses a grid system of latitude and longitude, while relative location describes where a place is in relation to other places. Human-environment interaction explores how people adapt to and modify their environments. Movement examines the mobility of people, goods, and ideas between places. Finally, regions looks at what gives places common characteristics, such as shared politics, landforms, cultures, etc. Formal, functional, and perceptual regions are defined and examples are given.
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- 1. The Five Themes of Geography A Framework for Studying the World
- 2. Theme 1: Location • Where is It? • Why is It There? Two Types of Location •Absolute •Relative
- 3. Absolute Location • A specific place on the Earth’s surface • Uses a grid system • Latitude and longitude • A global address
- 4. Absolute Location Lodi Latitude: 43.31 N, Longitude: 89.53 W
- 5. Relative Location • Where a place is in relation to another place • Uses directional words to describe – Cardinal and intermediate directions
- 6. Wisconsin • Wisconsin is in the upper Midwestern region of the US. • Lake Michigan forms the eastern border of Wisconsin and Lake Superior is the northern border. • Wisconsin lies to the north of Illinois and east of Minnesota.
- 8. Mercator
- 9. Peters
- 10. Winkle Tripel
- 11. Theme 2: Place Physical Characteristics • Land Features • Mountains, plains, and plateaus • Climate • Bodies of Water
- 13. Theme 2: Place Human Characteristics • People • Culture • Language • Religion • Buildings and Landmarks • Cities
- 14. Human Characteristics of Asian Nations:
- 15. UNESCO World Heritage Sites - Quiz UNESCO World Heritage Sites – Web
- 16. Theme 3: Human Environment Interaction How People Interact With Their Environment People . . . • Adapt to Their Environment • Modify Their Environment • Depend on Their Environment http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/corbis/DGT119/BAG0017.jpg
- 18. The Netherlands – land reclamation
- 21. Assignment: • Find an extreme or surprising example of human environmental interaction (non-US). • Create 1 power point slide – Include an image – Include a description (including location)
- 22. Theme 4: Movement The Mobility of • People • Goods • Ideas How Places are linked to one another and the world
- 23. Wisconsin: Movement What are the ways people in our region/state move?
- 26. Movement of People • Humans are a mobile species • Migration – Immigration – Emigration
- 28. Chinese Migration • The Chinese Economic Miracle – 1978 Deng Xiaoping – Need for mass of labor in industrial areas on the coast. • Economic Boom, Rise of Chinese Middle Class Vs. • Congestion, Crime Backlashes against internal migrant laborers • “The Last Train Home”
- 29. Movement of STUFF • Natural Resources • Processing • Manufacturing • Marketing • Sales • Resale • Disposal
- 30. Theme 5: Regions What Places Have in Common • Political Regions • Landform Regions • Agricultural Regions • Cultural Regions
- 32. Formal Region • Most common/familiar. • Determined by the distribution of a uniform characteristic (physical or cultural) – Location – Climate – Religion • Examples – Central America (Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama) – Latin America (spanish-speaking nations) – Tropics (countries located near equator)
- 33. Functional Region • Serves a purpose that affects places around it. – Distributes goods/people – Serves specific purpose • Examples: – Panama Canal – Amazon River Basin – Hollywood – Amish Country
- 34. Perceptual/Vernacular Region Sense of place defined by people’s ordinary language and informal understanding of a place. Groups of areas that provoke a certain stereotype or feeling. • Examples: – The Bronx – The “ghetto” – China town – The Bible Belt – Packer Country
- 35. Assignment • Create a Map of Lodi that defines one of the following: • Formal Regions • Functional Regions • Vernacular Regions You will be randomly assigned which regions you will define.