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Title: Geography Handbook


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Geography Handbook

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The Five Themes
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1 -- Location
  • Relative Location
  • Ex Oklahoma is north of Texas.
  • Ex - Distance
  • Exact Location
  • Using map coordinates
  • (More on this later)

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2 Place
  • What makes a location unique?
  • Physical Features
  • Human Features

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3 Region
  • Describes an area of land with something in
    common.
  • Politics America is a democracy
  • Climate Texas Gulf Coast is humid
  • Language
  • Religion
  • Culture way of life

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4 --Movement
  • Information
  • People and Goods
  • Travel
  • Trade
  • What are ways that movement is limited?
  • Internet
  • Radio and TV
  • Books and Newspapers
  • How has technology affected the movement of
    information?
  • Is this positive or negative?

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5 Interaction with Environment
  • How do humans deal
  • with the world around
  • them?
  • How do weather cycles
  • affect people?
  • How does physical
  • geography affect people?

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REVIEW How can we show location?
  • Relative Location
  • An objects location in relation to another
    object.
  • Absolute or Exact Location
  • Location that is found using latitude and
    longitude.

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Tools that geographers students (and Waldo) use.
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What do these show?
  • Compass Rose
  • Scale

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What can these tell us?
  • Key
  • Title

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What measures what?
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Imaginary lines
  • Run east and west
  • Measure distance north and south of the equator.
  • Imaginary Lines
  • Run north and south
  • Measures distance east
  • and west of the Prime
  • Meridian.

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Hemispheres
  • North and South
  • East and West
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