Looking at the Earth

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Looking at the Earth
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Exploring the World Around Us

• What is Geography?
• Geo- the earth
• graphe to describe
• The study of people, their environments and their
  resources.

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Geographers tools

• Maps-visual representations of a portion of the
  earth
• Photographs-create charts, graphs or tables to
  understand patterns
• Technology

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5 Basic Themes

• 1 Location The exact position on the Earths
  surface
• Lines of LATITUDE-measures distances north/south
  of the Equator.
• Line of LONGITUDE-measures distances east or west
  of the Prime meridian.

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2 Place

• Geographers describe places in terms of their
  physical and human characteristics.
• Physical characteristics landforms, climate,soil
  and animal life
• Human characteristics peoples way of life-their
  activities, means of transportation, religion and
  languages

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3 Movement

• Migration
• Trade- goods exported or imported
• Spread of ideas
• Interdependence-dependence of countries on goods,
  resources and knowledge from other parts of the
  world.

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4 Region

• An area with its own unifying characteristics.
• These can be physical characteristics such as
  landforms or climate.
• Or-cultural political or economic features.
• One country can belong to several regions

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5 Interaction Between People and Their
Environment

• How people adapt to the world around them.
• Hidden costs?
• Negative examples of how people interact with
  their environment

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Lets review

• Give two examples of how people have reshaped
  their environment.
• Two examples of how they have adapted to their
  environment.
• How have modern communication and transportation
  affected movement?
• Describe 3 different ways to identify the region
  in which you live