Setting up your notebook

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Setting up your notebook
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Topic
Subject/Concepts
Details
Examples/quotes/key point
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The Five Themes of Geography A Framework for
Studying the World
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Geographic Tools
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• Geography means writing about or describing
  the earth.
• Geographers use technological tools such as
  sonar, satellites, and the global positioning
  system (GPS) to study locations on the earths
  surface.
• Growing in importance are graphic information
  systems (GIS), which use computer technology to
  analyze and display data about the earths
  surface to solve geographic problems.
• Geographic concepts help organize the way people
  think about geography.

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Geographys Five Themes
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Five questions can help organize information
about places

• What is the location of a place?
• What is the character of a place?
• How are places similar to and different from
  other places?
• How do people, goods, and ideas move between
  places?
• How do people interact with the natural
  environment of a place?

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Theme 1 Location

• Two Types of Location
• Absolute
• Relative

• Where is It?
• Why is It There?

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Absolute Location

• A specific place on the Earths surface
• Uses a grid system
• Latitude and longitude
• A global address

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LOCATION
Absolute Location in practice
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LOCATION
Absolute Location in practice
Not very accurate in the beginning
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LOCATION
Absolute Location in practice
Satellite and Global Positioning Systems
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North Carolina

• Absolute Location
• North Carolina
• 36 N Latitude
• 79 W longitude
• Chapel Hill
• 35 55' N Latitude
• 79 05' W Longitude

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Relative Location

• Where a place is in relation to another place
• Uses directional words to describe
• Cardinal and intermediate directions

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North Carolina

• North Carolina is bordered by Virginia on the
  north, South Carolina and Georgia on the south,
  and Tennessee on the west.
• The Atlantic Ocean forms North Carolina's east
  coast.
• North Carolina is one of the Southeastern States

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LOCATION
Relative Location in practice
Near what city??
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Question

• Who can describe the RELATIVE location of
  California?

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Theme 2 Place

• Physical Characteristics
• Human Characteristics

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Theme 2 PlacePhysical Characteristics

• Land Features
• Mountains, plains, and plateaus
• Climate
• Bodies of Water

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PLACE

• All places have attributes that give them meaning
  and character and distinguish them from other
  places on earth.
• Physical Characteristics The physical
  characteristics of a place make up its natural
  environment and are derived from
• geological, hydrological,
• atmospheric, and
• biological processes.
• They include
• land forms,
• bodies of water,
• climate, soils,
• natural vegetation
• animal life.

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PLACE
Physical Characteristics
Those physical features about a place that make
it unique
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PLACE
Physical Characteristics
Where are these places??
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PLACE
Physical Characteristics
Where would you find these animals??
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PLACE
Physical Characteristics
What are some of the physical characteristics
that make Leland unique
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Theme 2 PlaceHuman Characteristics

• People
• Culture
• Language
• Religion
• Buildings and Landmarks
• Cities

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PLACE

• Human Characteristics
• The human characteristics of a place come from
  human ideas and actions.
• They include bridges, houses, and parks.
• Human characteristics of place also include land
  use, density of population ,language patterns,
  religion, architecture, and political systems.

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PLACE
Human Characteristics political systems.
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PLACE
Human Characteristics Architecture
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PLACE
Human Characteristics
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PLACE
Human Characteristics
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Theme 3 Human Environment Interaction

• How People Interact With Their Environment
• People . . .
• Adapt to Their Environment
• Modify Their Environment
• Depend on Their Environment

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Human/Environmental Interaction

• Examples
• people who live in the northeastern United States
  use heating units to keep their homes warm in
  winter
• People in the southern part of the country use
  air conditioning much of the year to stay cool in
  the heat.
• The ways people choose to adapt to their
  settings reflect their economic and political
  circumstances and their technological abilities.
  

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Human/Environmental Interaction
Desert
Savanna
Tropical
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Human/Environmental Interaction
Desert
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Human/Environmental Interaction
Prairie
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Human/Environmental Interaction
The earths Vegetation Zones, Natural Resources,
Energy Development play a significant factor in
that development.
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Human/Environmental Interaction
The earths Vegetation Zones, Natural Resources,
Energy Development play a significant factor in
that development.
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Theme 4 Movement

• The Mobility of
• People
• Goods
• Ideas
• How Places are linked to one another and the world

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MOVEMENT

• The theme movement addresses this question
• How and why are places connected with one
  another?
• Relationships between people in different places
  are shaped by the constant movement of people,
  ideas, materials, and physical systems such as
  wind, plate tectonics and volcanoes.

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MOVEMENT

• Movement of People
• Immigration/Emigration,
• Urbanization
• Population
• Movement of Land
• Plate tectonics
• earthquakes
• volcanoes

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MOVEMENT
Movement of People
Understanding the patterns of human movement, the
causes, and outcomes of that movement, and the
process of that movement
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MOVEMENT
Movement of Land
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Theme 5 RegionsFunctional, Formal, Perceptual

• What Places Have in Common
• Political Regions
• Landform Regions
• Agricultural Regions
• Cultural Regions

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REGION

• an area that has unifying characteristics that
  give it a sense of cohesiveness and make it
  distinct from other regions.

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Formal Regions within a Formal Region
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Now you try it

1. State of Texas
2. State of California
3. Santa Clara County
4. Country of Germany
5. Chinatown, SF
6. Silicon Valley
7. Rust Belt
8. Amazon River Basin

1. Formal Region
2. Formal Region
3. Formal Region
4. Formal Region
5. Perceptual Region
6. Functional Region
7. Functional/Perceptual
8. Functional Region