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Location: be able to give coordinates or a
description of WHERE IT IS.
Absolute location: latitude and longitude,
military grid, street address
Relative location: in relation to other places
(beside the rink, 20 km from Debert, etc)
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Region: be able to give names to various
areas. What characteristics do some areas
have in common?
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REGIONS are defined as areas with similar
characteristics. We name them as a way to help
us in our study of the patterns we are studying.
Physical characteristics
◦ Soil regions
◦ Europe
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Human characteristics
◦ Religions
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Multicharacter regions
◦ Canada
◦ Middle East
• Label clearly continents and major
oceans. Use map conventions (PRINT,
use pencil or black/blue ink)
• Shade and label the following regions:
•North America
•Central America and the Caribbean
•South America
•Western Europe
•Eastern Europe and CIS
•Middle East
•North Africa
•Sub-saharan Africa
•South Asia
•East Asia
•South east Asia
•Australia and the South Pacific
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Two examples
1] Wealthy people live away from industry
2] Air pollution –
i] prevailing wind patterns push pollution in one
direction
ii] distance decay pattern – the intensity of what is
being measured decreases the farther you move
away from the source.
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Look for the ways things that are in one place might flow
to another place. [i.e. Chemical spills, volcanoes, and
earthquakes in one area of the world can have profound
impacts on an area much further away]
Health concerns such as AIDS are no longer isolated
events dependent upon a specific region. With
increased interaction of the earth’s inhabitants, it is a
global crisis
Spatial interaction also enables us to provide help more
swiftly and to a much wider range of earth’s citizens.
ACTIVITY: Listen to the podcast on the spread of Japanese
stillgrass in Pennsylvania. Answer the following questions:
 How did Japanese stillgrass first come to Pennsylvania?
 Describe how Japanese stillgrass has spread throughout Pennsylvania?
 What are the implications of the continued spread of Japanese stillgrass?
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What other methods might invasive species use to spread
from one place to another?
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How can this picture be viewed as an example
of spatial interaction?
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ACTIVITY: Listen to the podcast on the spread
of Japanese stillgrass in Pennsylvania. Answer
the following questions:
 How did Japanese stillgrass first come to Pennsylvania?
 Describe how Japanese stillgrass has spread
throughout Pennsylvania?
 What are the implications of the continued spread of
Japanese stillgrass?
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What other methods might invasive species
use to spread from one place to another?
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How human activities affect the land, air and water
and how they affect the way we live.
ACTIVITY
 List ways the environment affects the way you live.
 List ways you affect the environment around you.
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THE LORAX
ACTIVITY:
 Read the handout
 Watch the video.
 Complete the questions. Work individually for about 10 minutes and
then partner up.
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The customs or world view of any group of
people.
Although environment can influence culture,
two groups with different cultures might react
to the same environment in different ways.
They might have different social structures,
different clothing, housing, etc. They might
have different goals.
Culture includes but is not limited to religion,
food, clothing, beliefs about right and wrong,
manners, gender roles, etc.
EXAMPLE: FOOD
Farming in Canada
Farming in Indonesia
House in California
Zulu Hut in
Africa
What is the cultural difference in
resource use between the two
pictures?
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Millenium
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Geography
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Sustainable development
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Integrative discipline
Geographic method
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Location
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Region
Scale
Spatial distribution
Prevailing wind
Distance decay
pattern
Culture
Human/environment
interactions
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Well, surely you already believed that it was
worth it to study global geography?
READ page 17 to see what you should gain
from this course.