Transcript 5 themes of geography

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Geography
What?
• Geography – is the study of
earth in all its variety.
– Two Types
• Physical - Land, Water, Plants and
Animals.
• Human – The study of people.
5 THEMES OF
GEOGRAPHY
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• M- Movement
• R- Region
• HE- Human/Environment
• L- Location
• P- Place
MOVEMENT
• What is movement?
• Well since places are not
secluded,
• People, Goods, and Ideas will
move between two places.
• Examples:
Roads
Roads
Airports
Airports
Rivers
Rivers
Railroad
Railroad
Region
• There are three basic types of regions.
• Formal regions are those defined by governmental or
administrative boundaries (i. e., United States,
Birmingham, Brazil). 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.,
TVA, United Airlines Service area or a newspaper service
area). 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 Middle East).
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Rockies
Amazon River Basin
Middle East
Region Cont.
• 2. Functional Region- is defined by its
internal organization, which usually
centers on some focal point.
– Ex.
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City
A school in an educational district
A shopping center in a large market area
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Mall of America
Human/Environment
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What is Human Environment Interaction?
Well it asks certain questions.
1. How do people use their environment?
2. How have they changed the
environment?
• 3. What are the consequences of the
changes they have made?
• 4. How have they adapted to changes in
their environment.
Human/Environment
• Make it simple!
• It is how humans interact with the
environment
• Examples
Location
• There are two types of location:
– Absolute
– Relative
– These will be discussed in a further lecture
Place
• A Place is a description of what
it is like, rather than the
location.
• There are two ways the
geographers describe a place.
• Physical and Human
Characteristics
Physical Place
• include things that occur naturally,
such as mountains, rivers, type of
soil, wildlife, climate.
Physical
Human Characteristics
• are things that have changed due to
people, such as roads and buildings, how
people live and their traditions
Human
Map
Satellite
Imagery
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Hybrid
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