Using Geography Skills
What is Geography?
The study of the Earth and its
people.
Five Themes of
Geography
 Location – The position of a place on the Earth’s
surface.
 Absolute Location – The exact spot where something is
located on the Earth’s surface.
 Relative Location – Describes where things are in relation
to other things.
Five Themes of
Geography cont.
 Place – Physical features of a location that make it
unique.
 Plants, landforms, animals, weather patterns, people,
language
Five Themes of
Geography cont.
 Human-Environment Interaction – how people affect the
environment.
Five Themes of
Geography cont.
 Movement - How people, ideas, and goods are linked
together around the Earth
 Movement is exchange of ideas to new locations to change
that culture
 Migrations of People
 Goods moving into new areas change the way things are
done
Five Themes of
Geography cont.
 Regions – areas of the Earth’s surface that have several
common characteristics such as land, natural resources,
or population.
Geographers Tools
 Places in Time – Geographers learn about a place by
studying how it changed over time
 Decade, century, millennium
 Four historical periods
 Prehistory – until 5500 years ago
 Ancient History – until 1500 years ago
 Middle Ages – next 1000 years
 Modern History – 500 years ago to the present
Maps and Globes
 Globe – a round model of the Earth
 Map – a flat drawing of the Earth
 Problems?
 Distortion
Goode’s Interrupted Equal
Area Projection
Robinson Projection
Mercator Projection
Winkel Tripel Projection
Latitude and Longitude
 Latitude lines are imaginary circles that run east to west
 The middle is called the equator.
 They are parallel.
 Measure northern and southern location. 90°
 Longitude lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole.
 Middle line is the Prime Meridian in Greenwich, England.
 The measure eastern and western location. 180°
 These are used to measure exact location.
Hemispheres
 The hemispheres are four equal pieces of the Earth.
 The Earth is cut along the equator and the Prime
Meridian.
Map Practice
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Geography
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