1. What is
Geography?

2. • How the natural env. influences people, how
activities affect Earth, and how the world is
changing.

3. • There are 5 big themes to geography:
Location
Place
Human‐Environmental Interaction
Movement
Regions

4. • Absolute: where something is on a map in
relation to a grid or coordinate system
Like?
• Relative: to locate a place compared to other
landmarks
Like?

5. • Latitude: horizontal lines • Longitude: vertical lines
on the map that give on the map that give
location on the earth location on the earth East
North / South of the / West of the Prime
Equator Meridian

6. • Answers the question: What is it like there?
• Every place has features that make it unique
from other places…

7. • Human features:
what people put on
earth.
• Physical features:
natural
characteristics

8. • How does mankind reacts to its surroundings?
We depend on the environment for life.
We modify nature.
We adapt to nature.

9. • What do we share?
• Movement of an object moves from one
absolute location to another.
• 3 different types of movement:
People
Goods
Ideas

10. • Area of land with one or more common
characteristics.
• Relative locations brought together by…
Language
Religion
History
Landforms
(etc)