Transcript The Five Themes of Geography

Collin
McCarter
James
Beatty
Sabrina
Manji
Sawyer
Nichols
Casey
Burns
Alex
Harris
Kathryn
wells
Parker
Davis
Kailey
McLeod
Joemai
Singleton
Meredith
Ernst
Deanna
Beatty
Ashley
Kessinger
Olivia
Hodges
Eric Rios
Dariya
Ehlers
Margy
Henry
Brion
Williams
Jason
Gonzalez
Haley
Schmidt
Aldemar
Jimenez
Noah
Broom
Donovan
Bowling
Guinevere
Hanshaw
Jordan
Goodjoin
Jeremiah
Fuller
Alexis
Davis
Chandler
Mitchell
Breanne
Murrell
Michael
Causey
Margy
Henry
Niko
Peterson
Austin
Taylor
Camila
Rueda
Torres
Thomas
Histon
Katasha
Massey
Morgan
Walter
Kalyn
Linville
Cameron
Whitacre
Vanessa
Rodriguez
Logan
Tillotson
Hala
Abunijem
Drew
Nichols
Bayan
Anunijem
Cameron
Weise
Austin
Meadows
Riley
Lawlor
James Gill
Katie
German
Mikey
Coyle
Brylan
Hoxworth
Simon
Coneybeer
Hannah
Trayhan
Nick
Garner
Kelsey
Travis
Daishun
Tillman
Hannah
Penniston
Austin
Schatz
Alexis
Chambers
Brenda
Hopson
Yazmin
Martinez
Nathan
Wise
Wells
Carter
Alexis
Allison
Zally
Barksdale
Manuela
Anna
Traylor
Sevan
Terpack
Caleigh
Swenson
Paul
Scmidt
Gavin
Witt
Kendall
Bailey
Ahmed
El Tarabily
Taylor
Poole
Jessica
Nickols
Ray
Wisnewski
Drew
Byrnne
Alec
DiBattista
Morgan
Haynes
Olivia
Smith
Bryan
Molina
Jadin Beek
Isa Torres
Drew
Brannon
Sebastian
Betancur
Zavion
Chambers
Daniel
Giraldo
Adam
Varady
Maria
Hodges
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Welcome to your new permanent (for now)
seat.
If you have any serious problems with your
new seat, speak to me after class.
If you have the signed portion of your syllabus,
turn it in to the rainbow cart
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Location
Place
Human-Environmental Interactions
Movement
Regions
“Where are we?” is the question that the theme
Location answers.
Location can be relative or absolute
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Partner up with your neighbor
Take turns explaining to each other where you
live in Greenville without using any street
names or city names.
While your partner explains to you the location
of their house, write it down on your paper.
Write your partners name at the top of your
paper. (ex. Caroline’s House)
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Relative locations are described by landmarks,
time, direction or distance from one place to
another and may associate a particular place
with another.
“I live down yonder past the long bridge after
you go up that big hill right across the street
from the big oak tree. It’s about 5 minutes from
the Piggly Wiggly”
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Latitude and longitude pre-test
Put your name on it and turn it in at the
rainbow cart
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A latitude and longitude (a global location) or a
street address (local location).
Examples:
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Melbourne, Australia is 37◦ South latitude and 145◦
East longitude
I live at: 101 Dalmation St.
Cruelladeville, OH 10199
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To locate places north or south, geographers
use a set of imaginary lines that run parallel to
the equator.
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A set of imaginary lines that go around the
earth over the poles and mark positions in the
east and west hemispheres.
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To find an absolute location using the grid
system, you need to find the point where the
latitude and longitude lines cross.
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Sit in your assigned seat!
Finish playing Battleship with your partner.
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If you have not started get a sheet off the podium.
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Write you and your partners name on your paper
when you are finished and tape it in your
composition notebook.
Don’t forget to write the date at the top of the
page!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sit in your assigned seat!
Finish playing Battleship with your partner.
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If you have not started get a sheet off the podium.
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Write you and your partners name on your paper
when you are finished and tape it in your
composition notebook.
Don’t forget to write the date at the top of the
page!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Get a book (I will tell you what #) and use pg.
A20 to estimate the absolute location of
Greenville, SC.
Copy/Date/Answer
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Get a book and use pg. A20 to estimate the
absolute location of Greenville, SC.
Copy/Date/Answer
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What do you think of when you
think of China?
Japan?
 Russia?
 Saudi Arabia?
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Places have both human &
physical characteristics, as well as
images.
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Physical Characteristics
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Mountains, rivers, soil, beaches, wildlife, etc…
Human Characteristics
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Characteristics are derived from the ideas and
actions of people that result in changes to the
environment, such as buildings, roads, clothing and
food habits.
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If you refer to school as a place, what would it
include?
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Walls
Windows
Café
Classrooms
Teachers
Students
Uniforms
Books
Hallways
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How do you humans and environment affect
each other?
Three key concepts:
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Humans adapt to the environment
 Wearing clothing that is suitable for the weather &
climate
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Humans modify the environment
 Heating and cooling systems in building for comfort
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Humans depend on the environment
 Rivers for water supply and transportation
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All places on Earth have advantages and
disadvantages for human settlement.
One person’s advantage may be another
person’s disadvantage.
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Some like big cities whereas others prefer
remoteness.
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Given the choice, where would you live? Why?
What is the environment?
How do the physical features or environment
affect you?
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The movement of people, the import and
export of goods, and mass communication
have all played major roles in shaping our
world.
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People everywhere interact, traveling from place to
place and communicating.
We live in a global world.
We interact with each other through travel,
trade, information flows (E-Mail) and political
events.
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Not only do humans move but also ideas
move; fashions move; fads move.
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What is an example of an idea that moves?
How do we depend on people in other places?
How would our lives change if our movement
options changed?
What would happen if we traveled by camel or
horse?
How do we move from place to place?
How do we actually get food?
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A region is an area that displays a coherent
unity in terms of the government, language, or
possibly the landform or situation.
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They have human constructs that can be mapped
and analyzed.
There are three basic types of regions:
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Those defined by governmental or
administrative boundaries (i.e., United States,
Brazil, Greenville).
These regional boundaries are not open to
dispute, therefore physical regions fall under
this category (i.e., The Rockies, the Great Lakes
states)
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Defined by a function (i.e., United Airlines
Service area or a newspaper service area).
If the function ceases to exist, the function no
longer exists.
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Are loosely defined by people’s perception (i.e.,
The South, The Middle East).
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What region do we live in?
What type of region is it?
What are its characteristics?
What states do you define as the South?
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The Northeast?
What characteristics go along with this region?
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If you could travel anywhere in the Southern
hemisphere, where would you go?