Geography Review Everything You Need to Know to Help You Through SS This Year. 5 Themes of Geography • How Geographers Think A
Geography Review Everything you need to know to help you through SS this year. 5 Themes of Geography How geographers think about the world. If you get confused, you can always ask MR. HELP!! o M – Movement o R – Region o HE – Human-Environment Interaction o L – Location o P – Place Movement – How people, goods, information, and ideas travel from place to place. o Cars, Trucks, Planes, Boats, Trains o Snail Mail, Newspapers, Internet, E-Mail, Word-of-Mouth Region – An area that is defined by certain similar characteristics. o These characteristics can be physical, natural, human, or cultural. Gobi Desert, Appalachian Mountains, Amazon Rainforest . Downtown Lincolnton, Times Square, Chinatown . Southern, Northern, Midwestern, Pacific Regions of the USA. Human-Environment Interaction – The relationships between people and their environment; how people adapt to the environment and how they change it. o Three Main Questions . How do people depend on the environment? . How do people adapt to the environment? . How do people modify the environment? Location – Where in the World????? o 2 Types . Relative Location – Using physical features and landmarks to give the GENERAL location Next door, in the field, down the road, beside West Express . Absolute Location – The SPECIFIC location using latitude and longitude or addresses. 35.48˚N, 81.38˚E (WLMS) 260 Shoal Road; Lincolnton NC, 28092 (WLMS) Place – An area that is defined by everything in it. o All places have features that give them personality and distinguish them from other places. If you refer to WLMS as a place, then that place would include walls, windows, gym, cafeteria, classrooms, people, clothing, books, maps, mops, brooms, hallways, and everything else in the school.
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