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GEOGRAPHY
GeoQuestion: Through how many countries does the Prime Meridian pass?
• Roots of Geography
– From the Greek word for Geographia which means “to describe the earth”
• Methods of Geography
Methods of Geography
5 Themes of Geography
Movement
MR. HELP
I. How do people, goods, and ideas
move from place to place?
A. How?
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Examples:
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car books
Internet Cell phone
Movement cont’d
B. Why?
1. Push Factors = negative
Examples: gov’tt, financial, famine, mass Examples: gov
financial famine mass
migration…
2. Pull Factors= positive
Examples: jobs, climate, freedom…
Movement cont’d
Infrastructure‐
basic physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society Examples: buildings, roads, and power supplies
Examples: buildings, roads, and power supplies
Emigrant/immigrant…what’s the difference? Emigrant‐ A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another
Immigrant‐ A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country
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Region cont’d
Region
II. How are places similar or different?
A. Formal –defined by a limited number of characteristics
B. Functional‐ organized around a set of interactions and connections between places
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C. Perceptual‐ people perceive
or see a region in the same way
(stereotypes) When the region on the left pops up,
you decide if it is
Formal, Functional, or Perceptual.
State of Nebraska
Amazon River basin
Dixie
The Sun Belt
Lancaster County
Country of Brazil
The I‐80 corridor
Husker Nation
Formal
Functional
Perceptual
Perceptual
Formal
Formal
Functional
Perceptual
Human‐Environment Interaction cont’d
A. Recreation
B. Urban (cities/buildings) Rural (country/farming)
C. Examples: drain swamps, dig irrigation ditches/ Hurricane Katrina
Human‐Environment Interaction
III. What is the relationship between humans and their environment?
Location
Where is it?
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2 types of Locations
A. Absolute Location ‐the exact place on Earth
Place What is it like?
B. Relative Location‐ describes a place in comparison to other places around it
Place
How can MR.HElP help you?
A. Physical Features
1. Climate
2. Landforms
3. Vegetation
4. Animal life
B. Human features 1. dams, highways, houses
2. Culture (religion, customs, languages, political and economical systems, population distribution, quality of life, identity…)
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