Transcript Geography Review - Willis High School

Geography
Review
The Five Themes of
Geography
1.
Location
serves as a starting point
2.
Place
describes what a place is like
3.
Human-Environment Interaction
how people react to natural surroundings
4.
Movement
people, ideas, and goods
5.
Region
united by common characteristics
Six Essential Elements of
Geography
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The World in Spatial Terms
Places and Regions
Physical Systems
Human Systems
Environment and Safety
The Uses of Geography
The World in Spatial Terms
 Where
a place is located
 Helps develop an awareness of the world
around you
Places and Regions
 Place
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Not just a location
Also describes what the place is like
 Landforms,
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climate, and animal life
Language and way of life
 Regions
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United by one or more common
characteristic
Physical System
 How
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systems shapes the earth’s surface
Hurricanes, volcanoes, glaciers, etc.
 Look
at communities of plants and
animals that depend upon one another
and their surroundings
Human Systems
 How
people have shaped our world
 How boundary lines are determined
 Why people settle in certain places and
not others
Environment and Society
 Relationship
between people and their
natural surroundings
 How people use the environment
 How peoples actions effect the
environment
The Uses of Geography
 Helps
us understand the relationships
among people, places, and environments
over time.
 Using the tools in geography prepares life
in modern society
Cardinal Directions
 North
 South
 East
 West
Vocabulary
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Absolute location-Exact position of a place
on the surface expressed in latitude and
longitude
Region-An area that is unified by on or more
characteristics
Grassland-An area where the natural
vegetation is grass
Relative location-The location of a place in
location to another place
Plain-A landform that is generally level
Vocabulary continued
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Barrier island-An island that protects the main
body of land from ocean waves
Cultural diffusion-borrowing and integrating ideas
specific to one group of people into the culture of
another group
Middle latitudes-the area midway between the
equator and the North and South poles.
Human/Environment interaction-how how people
use, adapt, or change their surroundings and how
the physical environment often affects humans
Plateau-broad level land form that has steep cliffs
Latitude
 Lines
that are parallel to the equator.
 Starts at the equator, increases going
North and South.
 Equator equals 0*.
 Tropic of Cancer is 23*30’ N
 Tropic of Capricorn is 23*30’ S
Longitude
 Lines
that cross the parallels.
 Numbers start increasing East and West.
 Prime Meridian equals 0*
Hemisphere
 The
equator divides the
earth in half to form
hemispheres.
 Everything north of the
equator is the northern
hemisphere.
 Everything south of the
equator is the southern
hemisphere.
Absolute Location
 Lines
of latitude and
longitude cross over.
 You can name the
places absolute
location by naming the
intersected lines.
 Willis-30° 25' N/ 95° 28' W
 Mexico City- 19° 25' N/
99° 7' W
 Fairbanks, Alaska- 64°
50' N/ 147° 42' W
Reading Maps
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Map key-explains lines, symbols, and colors
used on the map
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Scale-shows relationship between map
measurements and actual distances
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Roads, highways, cities, roads, towns, etc.
Can be measured with a ruler to calculate
actual distances
Compass rose-shows where cardinal
directions are positioned
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May only point in one direction
Reading Maps
What are 3 cities on
the map?
What is the state
capitol?
Where is the Alamo?
What are the 2
bodies of water?
What direction is
Dallas from Houston?