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Themes of Geography
Australia
•Pacific Ocean
•Coral Sea
•Along Australia’s East
Coast
Location
Where is it?
2 Types of Location
•Absolute
•Relative
Absolute Location
•Refers to an exact location
using an address
•Refers to an exact location
using latitude and longitude
Example of Absolute Location - Address
Macquarie St
Sydney New South Wales 2000, Australia
(02) 9250 7777
Example of Absolute Location Latitude and Longitude
Latitude - 33°51'25S
Longitude - 151°12'55E
Where is it?
Sydney Opera House
Relative Location
Refers to the position of a
place in relation to other
places
Examples of Relative Location
• Located in Sydney
• Located across the bay from the Sydney
Opera House
Where is it?
• Mrs. Macquaire's Chair
• The historic chair was carved out of a
rock ledge for Governor Lachlan
Macquarie's wife, Elizabeth, to veiw
harbor
What type of Location?
Absolute or Relative?
Ayers Rock (Uluru)
Located in the Northern
Territory of Australia
12° 41' South : 132°
55' East
Kakadu National Park
•Pacific Ocean
•Coral Sea
•Along Australia’s East
Coast
Place
What is the
place like?
Characteristics of Place
•Natural (Physical)
•Human
How would you describe
Australia?
Physical Characteristics
•Mountains
•Climate
•Animals
•Plants
Blue Mountains – New South Wales
Tasmanian Devil
The Outback – Northern Territory
The Rainforest - Queensland
Desert– Northern Territory (Alice Springs)
Landform - Ayers Rock
Human Characteristics
• People
• Language
• Buildings
• Jobs
• Clothing
Australia - Religion
• Catholic 26.4%, Anglican 20.5%, other Christian
20.5%, Buddhist 1.9%, Muslim 1.5%, other 1.2%,
unspecified 12.7%, none 15.3% (2001 Census)
• Nation Master
Australia - Language
• No official language
• Most speak English
Road Signs; Highways
Cities - Sydney
Culture
Clothes
Physical or Human
Characteristics?
Street Signs; Highways
Mountains – Blue Mountains
Religion
Flinders Road Baptist Church – Adelaide, South Australia
Great Victorian Desert
Lake Eyre
Koala
Darling River
The Bush – Northern Territory
Rainforest - Queensland
Large Skyscrapers
Sydney
Baron Falls - Queensland
Movement
How people and places
are linked together
Types of Movement
•Transportation
•Communication
Transportation
The movement of people
and goods
Communication
The movement of ideas
and information
Examples of the
Movement of People
Examples
Movement of
Goods
Movement of people,
ideas, goods?
Bedouins migrate deeper
into the desert in winter
when there is some
precipitation; in the summer
many live in the city
Tarahumara Indians of
the Sierra Madre
Mountains move down
the mountains in the
winter months
Tarahumara Indians
Examples of the
Movement of Ideas
Islam began in Saudi
Arabia and has spread
to all parts of the world
Interaction
How people use, adapt to, or
change their environment
When we Interact with our
environment, we …
•Adapt to the environment
•Change the environment
Examples of Adapting to the
Environment
• Seasons are opposite of America’s
season
• December – Summer
• June - Winter
Early Aborigines would burn
the dry grass so new grass to
attract animals for hunting
Gathering Turtle Eggs
Eating Water Lilies
Examples of Changing
the Environment
Irrigation
Early people had to irrigate
from rivers to farm dry land
People of the Netherlands
built dikes to create
farmland
Farmers use the
slash and burn
method of farming
Interaction with the environment
sometimes harms our environment
• Pollution
• Wastes
• Oil spills
• Many more
Adapting or
Changing?
During the warm seasons the Iraqi
people wear light colored, thin
clothing; during the winter season
– heavier clothing
People of the Great Plains in U.S.
built sod houses (not enough
wood)
Bedouin homes are tents
because they are nomadic
People of Iraq must irrigate
the Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers to farm dry land
Regions
To make the study of the world
easier, geographers divide it
into regions.
Regions may be based on:
•Physical features
•Human features
•Economic features
•Political features
Physical features: Desert Region
The Sahara Desert
Human
Features
Iraq is in a Muslim Region
Economic
Features
Corn Belt Region
Political Features
Location
Place
Interaction
Movement
Regions