Transcript The Five Themes of Geography

The Five Themes of
Geography
By Mr. Worm
Why Geography is important
In a tiny Native American fishing village, a small
group gathered around a man who began to draw in
the sand. They watched closely as Samuel de
Champlain, a French explorer, drew a sweeping line
on the ground. The line represented the coastline
where they stood. The local chief drew additional
lines. A young man added piles of rocks to
represent the village and nearby settlements. When
they were done, they had an informal map of the
local area.
Champlain and the Native Americans he
met on Cape Ann in Massachusetts in the 1600s did
not speak the same language. Yet, they both
understood the basic language of geography.
Location
Location
• Describes where places are on earth.
• Types of Location:
– ABSOLUTE: exact location on earth (fixed)
• Doesn’t change
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Latitude/Longitude
Hemispheres
Grid System
Address
– RELATIVE: compared to other places (variable)
• Changes dependent upon where you’re
comparing it to.
– Miles
– Distance
– Direction
Let’s Study Our Location!
1. What is Sandy’s absolute location (Longitude and
Latitude)?
2. What is Union Middle School’s
relative location to the South
Towne Mall in Sandy?
Place
PLACE
Physical Differences and Human Differences
• Physical differences, • Human differences,
or characteristics,
or characteristics,
are things that have
include things that
changed due to
occur naturally, such
people, such as
as mountains, rivers,
roads and buildings,
type of soil, wildlife,
how people live and
climate etc.
their traditions
Drawing your Place
On your paper, draw Utah and fill it in
with symbols which represent your state
and what makes your state unique.
Place in early America
History
HumanEnvironment
Interaction
• The relationship between people and their
environment.
– Adaptation is how people change (clothing
and housing) because of the environment
– Modification is how the environment has been
changed by people.
– Dependence is how people depend on the
environment.
• Within your group brainstorm about how humans
have changed and altered the environment around
them. Come up with three positive human impacts
and three negative human impacts. Everyone in the
group needs to be participating and be able to
answer questions if called upon
Region
“A region is the basic unit of
study in geography. A
region is an area that
displays a coherent unity in
terms of the government,
language, or possibly the
landform or situation.
Regions are human
constructs that can be
mapped and analyzed.”
The 5 Themes of Geography, by Lisa Keys-Matthews,
http://www.una.edu/geography/statedepted/themes.html
retrieved June 16, 2010
There are three basic types of regions.
Formal regions are those defined by
governmental or administrative boundaries (i. e.,
United States, Salt Lake City, Canyons School
District). These regional boundaries are not
open to dispute, therefore physical regions fall
under this category (i. e., The Rockies, the
Great Lakes States).
Functional regions are those defined by a
function (i. e., Delta Airlines Service area or a
newspaper service area, Real Salt Lake). If the
function ceases to exists, the region no longer
exists.
Vernacular regions are those loosely defined
by people's perception (i. e., The South, The
West).
The 5 Themes of Geography, by Lisa Keys-Matthews,
http://www.una.edu/geography/statedepted/themes.html retrieved June
16, 2010
What region do we live in?
•Formal
•Functional
•Perceptual
What are the characteristics
or this region?
Region Questions
• How do you think people in the united states
characterize your region (Utah)?
• What region do we live in?
• What type of region is it?
• What are its characteristics?
• What states do you define as the West?
Great Basin? Rocky Mountain?
Movement
How do people, goods, and
ideas move?
• Movement includes the movement of people,
goods, and communications (the movement of
ideas).
• How has this changed in the last two hundred
years?
Examples
Review
Question 1
The Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn are both
located 23.5 degrees north and south of the
equator. What are they an example of
Longitude
or latitude
?
Question 2
Native Americans were among the first civilizations
to farm. Before they farmed they had to move
from place to place in order to get food. Their ability
to adapt to their environment is an example of which
of the five themes of geography?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Place
Interaction
Movement
Region
Location
Question 3
Which of the following is
not an example of region?
A)
B)
C)
D)
The Great Lakes States
The Soda-pop states
The California state
The New England states
Question 4
Which of the following
devices does not give you
absolute location?
A)
B)
C)
D)
Cell phone
GPS
Car
Ipod
Question 5
When they landed on American soil, European
explorers, like Columbus, brought with them slaves,
small-pox, and horses. This is known as the
Columbian exchange and is an example of what?
A) Place
B) Interaction
C) Movement
D) Region
E) Location
Question 6
As you study this year you will need to think
geographically. For practice, let us see how
population trends throughout the history of the United
States relate to the five themes of geography.
When the United States won its independence
in 1783, it was made up of 13 states located on the
Atlantic coast (_________). The majority of the
population lived along the coast or near rivers
( ________), where water transportation was easy
(________). The Appalachian Mountains and other
geographic features limited westward movement
(_______). In 1790, the nation’s center of
population was located in Maryland.
Question 7
• Which geographic theme would be most concerned
with trade among nations?
A) Place
B) Interaction
C) Movement
D) Region
E) Location
Unscramble each of the clue words.
Copy the letters in the numbered cells to other cells with the same number.