Geography fun facts!

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Geography fun facts!

• Write the letter of your guess on your cover
  sheet on the warm-up side todays date 8/25
• There is a city called ______ on every continent
  in the world.A. AthensB. Rome C. LondonD.
  Tokyo

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• The ___________is the fourth largest country
  based on population and geographic area.
• A. ChinaB. South AfricaC. United
  StatesD. Canada

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• 3. What is the longest river in the United
  States?
• A. ColoradoB . MississippiC. MissouriD. Ri
  o Grande

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The Five Themes of Geography
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Lets Review!

• What are the SEVEN CONTINENTS??
• Asia
• Europe
• Africa
• Australia
• Antarctica
• North America
• South America
• What are the FOUR OCEANS??
• Pacific Ocean
• Atlantic Ocean
• Arctic Ocean
• Indian Ocean

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The 5 Themes of Geography

1. Location
2. Movement
3. Region
4. Place
5. Human/ Environment Interaction

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Theme 1 Location

• Where is it??

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Location

• There are two types of LOCATION!!
• Absolute (mathematical)
• Relative

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Absolute Location

• Absolute Location is found by using
• Two specific line types
• Latitude
• Longitude

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Absolute Location

• Latitude Lines
• AKA (Parallels)
• Latitude lines are drawn from
• East to West
• Latitude lines measure
• North to South

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Absolute Location

• The Major Line of LATITUDE is the
• Equator
• It splits the Earth into
• the Northern and
• Southern Hemispheres

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Define Hemisphere

• Half of a globe
• (in our case the Earth)

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Absolute Location

• Other important lines of LATITUDE
• 22 1/3 North Tropic of Cancer
• 22 1/3 South Tropic of Capricorn
• They are important because
• They get the most direct
• sunlight making these areas
• the hottest places on Earth

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Absolute Location

• Other important lines
• 66 1/2 North Arctic Circle
• 66 1/2 South Antarctic Circle
• They are important because
• These areas get the least amount
• of sunlight. Part of the year
• there is no sunlight and the
• other part of the year there
• is no darkness.

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Absolute Location

• Longitude Lines
• AKA (Meridians)
• Latitude lines are drawn from
• North to South
• Latitude lines measure
• East to West

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Absolute Location

• The Major Line of LONGITUDE is the
• Prime Meridian
• It splits the Earth into
• the Eastern and
• Western Hemispheres

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Absolute Location

• Roswells Mathematical Location is
• 34 3' 47? N, 84 22' 52? W ( seconds and
  minutes)

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Relative Location

• Where an area is depending on where another area
  is!
• Figure out where Mr. Ws desk is in relation to
  something else in the room!

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Theme 2 Movement

• How are people linked together?

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Movement

• Movement describes how
• How people in one area contact people in other
  areas

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Movement

• What can move??

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Movement

• How can things move??

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Movement

• Through movement we connect all of our world
  together.
• This is called globalization!
• When we are interdependent on each other for our
  economy, culture, politics, socialization, and
  technology.

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Which of the following is NOT a geography theme?

• Movement
• Region
• People

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Theme 3 Region

• What does it have in common?

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Region

• A region describes
• Areas that have something in common
• Regions can be
• BIG
• or
• small

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Region

• There are 3 types of Regions
• Formal / Uniform
• Functional / Nodal
• Vernacular / Perceptual

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Region

• Formal / Uniform Region is an. . .
• Area in which a certain characteristic is found
  throughout the area
• Examples City, State, Country, Continent, places
  with the same climate, same religion, same
  language, same crops, etc.

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Region

• Functional / Nodal Regions
• Have one central place (a node) and it is
  surrounded by the areas it affects
• Example the delivery area of a pizza restaurant,
  the space covered by a cell phone tower, the
  cities that Delta flies to from Atlanta

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• Vernacular / Perceptual Regions
• Region that people perceive they believe it
  exists as part of their cultural identity.

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Theme 4 Place

• What is it like?

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Place
What is it like?
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Place
What is it like?
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Place

• What is it like?

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Place

• Each PLACE on Earth has it own
• DISTINCT CHARACTERISTICS
• Two types
• Human
• Or
• Physical
• (something that makes it different than any other
  place in the world)

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Place

• Physical Features
• The Earth is covered in 30 land
• All landforms are described by their elevation
• Elevation is the height above sea level
• There are 4 main types of landforms they are
• Mountains
• Hills
• Plateaus
• Plains

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Place

• Physical Features
• Another physical feature is also an areas
  climate.
• What affects climate?
• There are 3 major climate regions.
• Tropical
• Temperate (Mid-Latitude)
• Polar

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• What is the difference between Location Place?

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• Which of the following is NOT an example of
  location?
• 12 N, 32 W
• 124 Main Street, Springfield, Missouri
• Georgia

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What is the difference between Location Place?
Location 5 S , 68 W
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What is the difference between Location Place?
Place Describe
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Human/Environment Interaction

• How do we interact with our environment?

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HEI

• What is an environment?
• Natural Surroundings
• Human/Environment Interaction explains
• How people use and change their environment

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HEI

• The environment influences how
• We live
• Examples

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Does the environment affect where we do this
activity?
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HEI

• When ever people come in contact with something
  they
• Change it!
• Examples are
• Good examples?
• Bad examples?
• Both examples?

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• Which of the following IS an example of Human
  Environment Interaction?
• Getting the mail
• Riding in a cattle roundup
• Rainforest clearing

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Remembering the 5 themes

• If you cant remembering what they are just ask
  MR. HELP!!!
• M Movement
• R Regions
• HE Human Environment interaction
• L Location
• P - Place

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HEI Global Warming
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HEI Global Warming

• What is Global Warming
• It is caused by humans
• Too much Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is in the air
• Which in turn makes the Earths temperature rise

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HEI Global Warming
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HEI Global Warming

• If you want to see the polar ice caps, go before
  2040
• Simulations of global warming patterns indicate
  that the polar ice caps have a high chance of
  melting entirely by 2040.

www.hippyshopper.com/2006/12/if_you_want_to.html
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HEI Global Warming

• The temperature is melting the polar ice caps !
• Results
• Makes the oceans level rise
• Floods areas near the ocean
• Precipitation increased in some areas
• Precipitation decreased in some areas (desert
  like)

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HEI Global Warming

• What can we do to help??