Geography is the study of how the natural environment influences people, how human activities affect Earth, and how the world is changing. There are five main themes in geography: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions. Geography uses absolute and relative locations to describe where things are on maps. It examines the unique characteristics of different places and how humans interact with and modify their surroundings. A key aspect of geography is the study of movement and regions, which are areas of land with common characteristics that unite their relative locations.

1. What is
Geography?

2. • How the natural env. influences people, how
activities affect Earth, and how the world is
changing.

3. • There are 5 big themes to geography:
Location
Place
Human‐Environmental Interaction
Movement
Regions

4. • Absolute: where something is on a map in
relation to a grid or coordinate system
Like?
• Relative: to locate a place compared to other
landmarks
Like?

5. • Latitude: horizontal lines • Longitude: vertical lines
on the map that give on the map that give
location on the earth location on the earth East
North / South of the / West of the Prime
Equator Meridian

6. • Answers the question: What is it like there?
• Every place has features that make it unique
from other places…

7. • Human features:
what people put on
earth.
• Physical features:
natural
characteristics

8. • How does mankind reacts to its surroundings?
We depend on the environment for life.
We modify nature.
We adapt to nature.

9. • What do we share?
• Movement of an object moves from one
absolute location to another.
• 3 different types of movement:
People
Goods
Ideas

10. • Area of land with one or more common
characteristics.
• Relative locations brought together by…
Language
Religion
History
Landforms
(etc)