Transcript Geography: The Study of Places AND People

Of the terms listed below, are there any you already know? Talk with your
neighbor about definitions you’re familiar with!
Geography: The Study
of Places AND People
Terms to tackle:
•Geography
•Landforms
•Climate
•Environment
•Region
•Resources
Set up your paper
to take
Cornell notes!
What is culture?
Geography
• Geography is the
study of the earth’s
physical and cultural
features.
• These features include
mountains, rivers,
people, cities, and
countries.
Geography is broken in two parts;
Physical geography and Human geography!
Do you have a
culture?
If so, what does
it include?
Physical Geography:
Landforms
• Landforms are the
natural features of the
land’s surface.
• Some landforms
include mountains,
valleys, plains, and
canyons.
See if you and your neighbor can identify 5 examples of landforms
from the picture above.
Get Ready to Test Your
Knowledge of Famous Landforms
Around the WORLD!!!
The Grand
Canyon
Mt. Everest
Old Faithful
Geyser
Hawaiian
Islands
Physical Geography:
Climate
• Climate is the pattern
of weather conditions
in a certain area over a
long period of time.
• Weather, however, is
the conditions at a
specific time and
place.
Fill in the
blanks!
My city has cold winters. I’m talking about its ________.
It is below freezing today. I’m talking about the _______.
Physical Geography :
Environment
• An environment includes
all living and nonliving
things that affect human
life in an area.
• Environment includes
climate, land, water,
plants, soil, and animals.
Talk to you neighbor about how
water, climate, and soil affect
humans.
Human Geography
• Human geographers
study humans and
their cultures.
• Human geographers
also study how the
environment affects
people.
This is a picture of the
Dogon people of Mali.
What are the two main branches
of geography?
Other Questions Human
Geographers Might
Research…
What religions
do people
practice?
How do people
who live in deserts
survive?
With your neighbor, answer one
of these questions about your
environment.
What kind
of work
do people
do?
How do they
get their
food?
Why do some
diseases
spread easily
in some
environments
and not others?
Regions
• A region is an area with
one or more features that
make it different from
surrounding areas.
• Regions can have different
climates, physical
features, different
languages spoken by
humans, and even
different religions
practiced by humans.
Regions are basically
ways geographers organize
land or people into
different
pieces.
Can you think of any other
Regions, or ways geographers
Might organize land/people?
Resources
• Resources are
materials found in the
earth that people need
and value.
• Some early times
essential resources
included water,
animals, and stones.
An area’s resources has a huge affect on whether or not
people choose to live in a particular area.
Recapitulate!
Take some time to recap some of
the information we discussed.
I’m looking for 6-8 GREAT
sentences.