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The Five Themes of
Geography
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Location • Absolute location provides a definite
reference to locate a place by using longitude and latitude or an address.
• Relative location describes a place with respect to its environment and its connection to other places.
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Place • Physical characteristics include a description
such things as the landforms, bodies of water and animal/plant life of a place.
• Human characteristics include architecture, jobs, religion, food and language.
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Interaction • How humans adapt to and modify the
environment – can be both positive and negative.
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Movement • Ideas, fads, goods, resources, communication
and humans all move around Earth!
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Region • This term can refer to specific areas such as a
city or country, or can be general like “The South”.
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World map
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Types of maps • Political – A map that shows boundaries of
countries, state, counties, etc.
• Physical – A map which shows landforms or bodies of water
• Road – A map used by motorist to show roads and highways
• Weather A map showing weather conditions such as temperature or rainfall
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Features of Maps • Key – explanatory table of symbols • Scale - a ratio which compares a measurement on
a map to the actual distance between locations identified on the map
• Compass - an instrument for determining directions
• Latitude - the angular distance north or south from the equator of a point on the earth's surface
• Longitude - angular distance east or west on the earth's surface
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Landforms & bodies of
water • Cay • Landlocked • Channel • Plain • Canyon • Desert • Island • Peninsula • Mountain • Valley
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Cay
• a small low island; key
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Landlocked
• having no direct access to the sea
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Channel
• a navigable route between two bodies of water
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Plain
• an area of land not significantly higher than adjacent areas
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Canyon
• a deep valley with steep sides, often with a stream flowing through it
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Desert
• a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all
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Island
• a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent
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Peninsula
• an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
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Mountain
• a natural elevation of the earth's surface rising more or less abruptly to a summit, and attaining an altitude greater than that of a hill, usually greater than 2000 feet
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Valley
• an elongated depression between uplands, hills, or mountains, especially one following the course of a stream
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Pirate Map
• Add to your map
– Cardinal rose
– Key
– Scale
– Three landforms
– Where is it located?